KIEV, Aug. 28 – Mykola Ivanenko, the owner of the Luxexpress II Company, following the destruction of his business has asked the United States to provide him and his family with political asylum.

KIEV, Aug. 28 – A system of video surveillance over parliamentary elections in Ukraine, which will be introduced by Sitronics IT, will cover 32,200 precinct election commissions and enable 300,000 users to simultaneously watch video broadcasts on the Internet, the company's press service has reported.

KIEV, Aug. 29 – The trust of Ukrainians in government institutions is low, according to a poll conducted by the Kiev International Institute of Sociology (KIIS).

KIEV, Aug. 30 – An agreement on the creation of a free-trade area (FTA) within the CIS is strategically important for Ukraine and will effectively work for the benefit of all CIS member states, of the National Security and Defense Council Secretary Andriy Kliuyev said.

KIEV, Aug. 30 - Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant (NFP), Ukraine’s biggest ferroalloy producer, may suspend output by the end of the year unless the government takes steps to lower power prices and restrict ferroalloy imports, the company said Thursday.

KIEV, Aug. 30 - Korea Gas Corporation seeks to participate in a project to build $1 billion liquefied natural gas terminal in Ukraine, Vladyslav Kaskiv, the head of a state agency supervising the project, said.

KIEV, Aug. 29 – The surplus of Ukraine's consolidated balance of payments in July 2011 amounted to $108 million, compared to a deficit of $376 million in June, according to Valeriy Lytvytsky, the head of the group of advisors to the governor of the National Bank of Ukraine.

KIEV, Aug. 29 – Ukrnafta, Ukraine's largest oil producing company, has hired two companies to conduct 3D seismic prospecting via a plane-table survey at six hydrocarbon deposits in Lviv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Poltava and Kharkiv regions.

KIEV, Aug. 29 - Agrarian Policy and Food Minister Mykola Prysiazhniuk says he hopes that Parliament will lift grain export duties early in September.

KIEV, Aug. 27 – Ukraine's Finance Ministry on Friday issued the second tranche of government domestic loan bonds worth almost UAH 2.05 billion to repay delayed value-added tax refunds (VAT bonds).