KIEV, Oct. 4 - Sokrat Investment and Financial Group has struck a deal to buy a controlling interest in the Irpen mill Progress (Kyiv region) for a privately held corporation with foreign capital. Slobozhanska Construction Ceramics, Sokrat reported.

"The purchase of Irpen's Progress mill is another step in the execution of a strategy of long-term development of Slobozhanska Construction Ceramics," reads a company announcement carried by Interfax-Ukraine.