KIEV, Jan. 30 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny needs about UAH 9 billion in compensation for the difference between the price of gas consumed by the population and the price formulated after Ukraine and Russia recently signed a gas agreement, a spokesman for the Ukrainian president's secretariat said.

DAVOS, Jan. 30 – The Ukrainian government and the International Monetary Fund have the same view on elaborating anti-crisis measures in Ukraine and updating an earlier agreed cooperation program, a high-ranking official told Interfax-Ukraine while commenting on the talks with the IMF mission.

DAVOS, Jan. 30 – Cheap assets on the developed markets and the squeeze of the debt market will make it hard for Ukrainian companies to raise funds in 2009, according to Jacques Der Megreditchian, the head of the securities department at Troika Dialog Investment Bank.

KIEV, Feb. 2 ??“ Ukraine will seek to double the size of its economy to about $160 billion within the next six years, Prime Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov suggested Thursday while disclosing the government??™s development program.

KIEV, Feb. 2 ??“ Naftogaz Ukrayiny, the national oil and gas company, and RosUkrEnergo, a Swiss-based gas trader, created a 50-50 joint venture Thursday to distribute gas in Ukraine during the next five years, officials said.

KIEV, Feb. 2 - Ukraine and Romania will seek to create a joint venture to explore for and to extract crude oil and natural gas from Black Sea offshore fields, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said Thursday.

KIEV, Feb. 2 ??“ Azerbaijan and Ukraine discussed building natural gas pipelines that would boost supplies of Azeri and other Central Asian gas via Ukraine to Europe, top security advisor to President Viktor Yushchenko said Thursday.

BRUSSELS, Feb. 1 - The European Commission is concerned over Russia's ban on imports of Ukrainian meat and dairy products, as the ban is a problem for the EU as well, Interfax-Ukraine reported citing EC Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner.

KIEV, Feb. 1 - Seven Ukrainian-made rocket carriers were launched in 2004 to put 15 satellites into orbit, Ukrainian National Space Agency General Director Oleksandr Nehoda said Tuesday.

KIEV, Feb. 1 ??“ Persecutor General Svyatoslav Piskun on Tuesday pledged to eradicate corruption in the upper echelons of power and proposed the creation of a National Bureau of Investigations to deal with the task.