KIEV, Nov. 28 – The World Bank's Board of Directors is expected to decide on the allocation to Ukraine of the $500 million in Development Policy Loan III on Dec. 23, Deputy Prime Minister Hryhoriy Nemyria said in Kiev on Friday following a meeting with World Bank Vice President for Europe and Central Asia Shigeo Katsu.

KIEV, Dec. 1 ??“ The State Property Fund closed another chapter on the long Kryvorizhstal privatization story by returning the UAH4.26 bln (about $850 mln) originally paid for the steel mill by the Investment and Metallurgy Union (IMU) after a much-disputed tender last year.

KIEV, Dec. 1 - Royal Dutch/Shell Plc will invest $100 mln to search for natural gas in Ukraine in a joint project with Naftogaz Ukrayiny, the state oil and gas company, according to an agreement signed Thursday.

KIEV, Dec. 1 ??“ The European Union announced that it had decided to grant market economy status to Ukraine, a decision that will ease the country??™s integration with the West and improve trade.

KIEV, Dec. 1 - The European Union and Ukraine on Thursday signed an energy agreement that anticipates increasing cooperation between the two in helping to diversify regional energy imports, officials said.

KIEV, Dec. 1 ??“ Parliament voted Thursday to give the government one extra week to work on 2006 budget draft before it is submitted to legislature for approval in the middle of December, lawmakers said.

KIEV, Nov. 30 ??“ Opposition leaders said Tuesday they are pulling out of talks with President Leonid Kuchma over ending Ukraine??™s political crisis, and resuming their total siege of government offices.

WASHINGTON, Oct 31 - Some 8,000 North Korean soldiers are now in Russia near Ukraine’s border and are preparing to help the Kremlin fight against Ukrainian troops in the coming days, the Biden administration said Thursday.

KYIV, Oct 31 – Some 32% of Ukrainians surveyed in most cases use several sources of information about the same political event to compare different assessments, with social networks (61%) occupying the first place in the list of information channels, and television (54%) second.

KYIV, Oct 31 – Ukraine will have to implement several key reforms, including anti-corruption measures, as well as rely on green recovery as part of a plan to qualify for EUR 50 billion from the Ukraine Aid Fund, Olena Shuliak, the head of the ruling Servant of the People party, said.