KIEV, Nov. 29 – President Viktor Yanukovych has created national commissions that regulate the communications, information and energy sectors, liquidating the National Communications Regulatory Commission and the National Energy Regulatory Commission.

KIEV, Nov. 29 - Ukraine, conceding that the global economic slowdown will have a major impact on its vital export industries, on Tuesday cut its forecast for economic growth next year to about 4% from an earlier estimated 5.5%.

KIEV, Nov. 28 – Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski has been invited to make a state visit to Ukraine in 2012.

"We are planning to continue the dynamics of our bilateral relations in future. We hope to welcome Mister President Komorowski during a state visit to Ukraine in 2012," Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych said during a joint press conference with the Polish president in Kiev on Monday.

KIEV, Nov. 29 - RosUkrEnergo plans to seek $500 million in damages from Naftogaz Ukrayiny, the Ukrainian publication Dzerkalo Tyzhnia (Mirror Weekly) said, citing sources.

The claims will be examined in Stockholm arbitration in March 2011.

KIEV, Nov. 29 - Naftogaz Ukrayiny on Monday agreed to return 12.1 billion cubic meters of natural gas to RosUkrEnergo in exchange for $1.7 billion from the Swiss-based gas trader, the companies said in a statement.

KIEV, Nov. 29 – Protesting small business owners on Monday demanded the government be dismissed for drafting the controversial tax legislation that has triggered massive protest over the past seven days.

GORKI, near Moscow, Nov 26 – Crude oil shipments from Russia to Ukraine will increase to 18.5 million tons, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych said at a press conference following talks with his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev on Friday.

KIEV, Nov. 26 – Ukraine is a promising emerging market for investment from the United Arab Emirates, said Sheikh Hamed bin Zayed al Nahyan, managing director of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.

MOSCOW, Nov. 26 - Russia is ready to discuss any issue concerning gas supplies with its Ukrainian partners, Russian presidential aide Sergei Prikhodko told journalists.

KIEV, Nov. 26 – President Viktor Yushchenko will ask the government to remove all mediators in the agreement on deliveries of electrical energy to Lithuania.

He said this at a joint press conference with President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaite in Kiev on Thursday.