KIEV, April 17 – Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has called on Canadian companies to participate in the development and production of oil and gas in Ukraine.

"We are very seriously working on attracting foreign investment, in particular in the development and production of oil and gas. I know that Canada has quite reputable companies that specialize in these areas.

MOSCOW, April 17 - Ukrainian cheese may return to the Russian market without any further hindrances after producers remove the flaws identified by an inspection by the Russian Consumer Rights Protection Service (Rospotrebnadzor), service head Gennady Onishchenko told Interfax.

KIEV, April 14 - Ukraine reduced its exports of electricity by 0.5% year-on-year, or 6.1 million kilowatt hours, in Q1 to 1.196 billion kilowatt hours, the Energy and Coal Industry Ministry announced.

SANYA (China), April 14 – Ukraine and Brazil want to implement a joint project to build a large international launch center in Alcantara by 2014, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said.

KIEV, April 14 – The Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry has attracted international organizations to define the procedure for calculating the initial prices of grain at auctions on the sale of quotas, Agricultural Policy and Food Minister Mykola Prysiazhniuk told the press in Kiev on Wednesday.

KIEV, April 15 – Ukraine and Vanco Prykerchenska Ltd. (British Virgin Islands) have not finished all of the official procedures for signing an amicable agreement, said Vanco Prykerchenska President Jim Bown.

KIEV, April 15 – The decline in investment in Ukraine seen over the past three years has exhausted itself and could be replaced by growth, according to Valeriy Lytvytsky, the head of the group of advisors to the governor of the National Bank of Ukraine.

KIEV, April 16 – Kiev Metropoliten is planning in September to hold a tender on the purchase of 635 new wagons, according to its Director General Petro Myroshnikov.

KIEV, April 17 – LUKOIL-Naftokhim, part of LUKOIL, has allocated $500 million to build membrane method sodium hydroxide and chlorine production plants at Karpatnaftokhim Ltd. in Kalush (Ivano-Frankivsk region) and a suspension polyvinylchloride resin production facility, according a posting on the official Karpatnaftokhim web site.

KIEV, April 17 – The International Center for Policy Studies (ICPS) announced it has improved its forecast for GDP growth in Ukraine in 2008 from 6.5% to 6.7%, but downgraded its inflation forecast from 10% to 19.5%.