KIEV, May 17 - Ukraine??™s major petrochemical company, KarpatNaftoKhim, formerly known as Lukor, suspended operation of its vinyl chloride, caustic soda and chlorine production facilities earlier this month for maintenance, the company??™s press service said Wednesday.

KIEV, May 16 ??“ Nemiroff Holding, Ukraine??™s second largest vodka producer, plans to invest $30-35 million in the construction of a vodka plant in Russia, the company??™s top manager said.

KIEV, May 17 ??“ The construction of a pipeline from Iran to Ukraine is a realistic project, according to the former National Security and Defense Council Secretary, MP Petro Poroshenko.

KIEV, May 17 ??“ The Presidents of Ukraine and Poland are to invite the president of Kazakhstan to participate in talks on implementing the Odessa-Brody-Gdansk oil pipeline project.

KIEV, May 17 ??“ This year China's Dong Feng Automobile Co. and UkrAuto Corporation are to launch a joint project to assemble low-tonnage Dong Feng trucks, the authorized representative of Dong Feng in Ukraine Den Siaosiu said at the Capital Car Show-2005 on Friday.

KIEV, May 17 ??“ Severstal-Group Holding (Russia), one of the world's top-10 steel making companies, is interested in buying Ukraine's biggest producer of steel cables and monopoly producer of steel cord--Silur in Khartsyzsk, Donetsk region, Silur Chairman Volodymyr Nemyrovsky said in an intervies Economics News on Monday, Interfax-Ukraine reported.

LIMASSOL. May 17 - Moody's Investors Service has assigned Ukraine's Aval Bank a 'B2' long-term and Not-Prime short-term foreign currency deposit ratings and a 'D-' Financial Strength Rating (FSR), and all ratings carry stable outlooks.

KYIV, April 13 - The number of vacancies in the Ukrainian labor market decreased by 19 times compared to last year, but in Kyiv the drop in the number of job offers is more significant - by 30 times, the personnel portal grc.ua reported.

KYIV, April 13 – The Commercial Vehicle Group (CVG), a leading supplier of fully integrated systems for the global commercial vehicle market, has deployed spare production facilities in the Czech Republic as part of protecting business and production in Ukraine (production facilities are located in Lviv), according to a CVG press release.

KYIV, April 14 – Mining and metallurgical group Metinvest of Rinat Akhmetov and Vadim Novinsky updated information on operation of their enterprises amid the ongoing aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine.