KIEV, May 22 ??“ The National Bank of Ukraine will seek to keep consumer inflation under control thus preventing the hryvnia, the national currency, from losing value against the U.S. dollar, NBU Governor Volodymyr Stelmakh said.

MOSCOW, May 22 ??“ Russia will impose an 18.2% hike on price of natural gas supplied to Ukraine starting July 1, a newspaper reported Monday citing a senior official at Gazprom, the Russian gas monopoly.

KIEV, May 22 ??“ Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko on Monday hosted a meeting with leaders of Poland, Bulgaria, Georgia and Azerbaijan seeking to forge an alliance that would reduce dependence on Russian energy.

KIEV, May 19 ??“ The German energy company E.ON-Ruhrgas refutes reports that Ukrainians are siphoning gas from pipelines to Western Europe.

KIEV, May 19 ??“ UkrPoshta, the state-owned postal services company, is seeking to challenge Western Union by entering the lucrative money-transfer business and charging competitive rates, an official said Thursday.

KIEV, May 19 ??“ President Viktor Yushchenko Thursday sought changes to the government??™s plan aimed at ending monopoly of Russian oil companies in Ukraine by ordering a merger of domestic oil producing and refining assets.

KIEV, May 19 ??“ Russian oil companies, after a meeting with President Viktor Yushchenko Thursday, agreed to boost oil supplies to Ukraine and set gasoline prices close to levels that had been suggested by the government.

ELEKTROSTAL, May 20 ??“ Ukrainian national nuclear power generation company EnergoAtom is planning to continue cooperation with Westinghouse in fuel supply diversification, EnergoAtom head Yuriy Nedashkovsky said at a press conference in Elektrostal.

KYIV, April 22 - U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs James O'Brien, who arrived on a visit to Kyiv, assured that new U.S. assistance will soon arrive in Ukraine.

KYIV, April 22 – The U.S. National Academy of Sciences is working to create a new multimillion-dollar joint science and innovation fund for Ukraine, U.S. Special Representative for Economic Recovery of Ukraine Penny Pritzker has said.