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Question of oil and gas sector reform postponed until March 16

A total of 373 MPs out of the 421 registered in parliament’s session hall on Tuesday voted for such a decision. Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr …
Interfax-Ukraine

Boiko: Ukraine in talks with Turkmenistan on direct gas supplies

"We are continuing a dialogue in this connection," he told journalists in Kyiv on Tuesday, when asked what amount of Turkmen gas could be supplied to …
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Yanukovych: Ukraine wants to cooperate with Turkmenistan in gas production

"We’re ready to participate in the development of the second branch of the Malay-Bagtyyarlyk gas pipeline, and we’re ready to continue supplying our …
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Azarov hopes for compromise with Russia in gas talks

"We are now continuing difficult negotiations, and we hope that the understanding of the unfairness of this contract and its negative impact on our …
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Official: No practical plan exists for Belarus to transition to Russian ruble

"We are the executive body of the Union State, whereas all decisions of this kind are made at political level. At the moment we don’t have any such …
Interfax-Ukraine

Ukraine to supply 300,000 tons food wheat to Syria

HIB said in a statement the deal had been signed last year. "At the present time HIB is performing the first contract, in the frame of a general …
Reuters

Azarov: Ukraine seeks to refinance IMF debt

Azarov, in an interview, continued to hitch the stalled deal with the IMF to hopes of a successful outcome to talks with Russia on a new gas …
Reuters

United Press International: Kyiv considering gas purchase from Europe

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Law to set terms for issuing licenses comes into force

It said the law will eliminate abuses when the authorities issue permits. The law on amendments to the Article 4 of the Ukrainian law "On the …
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About 32 tonnes of banned Ukrainian cheese suspended in Russia

Russia’s Consumer Rights Protection Service (Rospotrebnadzor) is ready to send its specialists to Ukraine in March to inspect cheese producing …
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Kyiv: Tripartite consortium to modernize Ukrainian gas pipelines better than bilateral

"I will give as an example the Odesa-Brody crude pipeline I started up in an adverse mode. If we had done everything right before the construction …
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Belarusian GDP grows 3% in winter, consumer prices 3.5%

Industrial production rose 6.3% and agricultural production grew 6.7%. Capital investment slumped 13.3% in real terms. The country’s real GDP grew by …
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DTEK to buy 25% stake in Dniproenergo for Hr 1.18 billion

It was announced at a meeting of the tender commission on the sale of the stake on Monday that Kharkiv-based USK-Consulting Ltd. had valued a 25% …
Interfax-Ukraine

NBU has not decided on inclusion of Russian ruble in reserve currencies in 2012

"We’re not planning to include the Russian ruble [in the reserve currencies]. We haven’t thrown away the idea, but we’re not planning this… We’re …
Interfax-Ukraine

Slavutich brewing plant posts 20% rise in net profit in 2011

The report says that the company’s assets last year grew by 9.4%, to Hr 2.96 billion. The company’s shareholders are planning to approve the results …
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Danish Cimber airline total passenger traffic 20% down in February

The company said that the load factor consequently rose 7 percentage points in February to a total of 69%, and the number of operated flights …
Interfax-Ukraine

Oil falls below $107 on weak growth in China trade

Benchmark oil for April delivery was down 72 cents to $106.68 at midday Singapore time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The …
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Global markets: Robust US jobs data lifts shares, dollar

Adding to the slightly bullish mood was strong acceptance from Greece’s private creditors for a bond swap to avoid a messy default, an issue that has …
Reuters
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