KIEV, June 16 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny has announced a tender to buy exploration works, the state holding reported.

The tender is divided into 10 lots, which include the laboratory petrophysical, geochemical, electrometric and acoustic exploration of well cores and fields, the assessment of oil and gas fields prospects, designing digital boring logs, and designing methods for geological and economic appraisal of alternative sources of fossil fuel (shale gas), etc.

KIEV, June 17 – The ICU investment group has forecast that due to the financial crisis early this year, Ukraine's GDP decline in 2015 will be 13.1% against the previously predicted 7.6%, but economic stabilization is expected as early as Q2 2015, with the GDP forecast for 2016 reviewed from 0% to 2.5% growth.

KIEV, June 14 – The operator of the WebMoney payment system in Ukraine is suspected of illegally operating with documents regarding remittances, payment cards, electronic money, equipment for their production (part 1 of Article 200 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) and money laundering (Part 3 of Article 209 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

KHARKIV, June 17 – Another 368-ton batch of melange, a toxic component of rocket fuel, has been removed from the warehouses of military unit A-2136 in Shevchenkove district for disposal in Russia, the Kharkiv Regional State Administration has reported.

KIEV, June 17 – Ukraine in 2013 could harvest around 20 million tons of wheat compared to 15.76 million tons threshed in 2012, the head of the agro-meteorological department of the Ukrainian Weather Center, Tetiana Adamenko, said.

KIEV, June 17 – EnergoAtom has submitted blueprints to the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate for the construction of reactors 3 and 4 of Khmelnytsky nuclear power plant on the basis of Project NPP-92, which implies an increase in the cost of the project compared with Project V-392B.

YENAKIYEVE, June 17 – The Metinvest Group will carry out its promise to build a sinter plant at Yenakiyeve Iron and Steel Works, despite the crisis on the global markets, the owner of Donetsk-based SCM Rinat Akhmetov said at Yenakiyeve after signing of a contract with Siemens VAI in the presence of President Viktor Yanukovych.

KIEV, June 17 – The negotiations over a revision of pricing in talks between Germany's RWE Supply & Trading GmbH and Russian gas giant OJSC Gazprom and the matter of re-exporting gas to Ukraine have nothing to do with each other, RWE CEO Stefan Judisch said during an interview with the Dzerkalo Tyzhnia. Ukraina newspaper.

KIEV, June 17 – A plan backed by Prime Minister Mykola Azarov to let the customs service start checking the quality of imported gasoline and diesel fuel at the border is facing growing opposition from energy traders.

KIEV, June 14 – The 64th World Newspaper Congress and the 19th World Editors Forum will take place in Kiev on September 2-5.

"The task of this congress is to tell the Ukrainian government that it's necessary to treat the press in the same way as any other economic branch. I hope that this position will be heard. I hope that it will help the Ukrainian media develop in a different way after the congress is held - develop more consciously and develop economically," President of the United Media Holding Group (UMH Group) Boris Lozhkin said at a press conference at the Interfax-Ukraine news agency in Kiev on Thursday.