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Ukrtelecom staff cut by 5.8% in Q1, 2011

16:21

19.04.2011

Kyiv, April 19 (Interfax-Ukraine) - The number of employees at Ukrtelecom as of April 1, 2011 was 71,350 people, which is 4,380 persons, or 5.8% down on the start of the year, according to data announced at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine on Tuesday by Ukrtelecom's new owner, Austrian company EPIC.

Naftogaz to refine 100,000 t of oil every month at Lysychansk oil refinery, says TNK-BP

12:24

19.04.2011

Kyiv, April 19 (Interfax-Ukraine) – National JSC Naftogaz Ukrainy will refine 100,000 tonnes of crude oil every month at Lysychansk oil refinery (private JSC LINIK, Luhansk region), Didier Casimiro, TNK-BP Commerce President and CEO, has said.

TNK-BP says it has no plans to stop Lysychansk oil refinery in April-May

17:39

18.04.2011

Kyiv, April 18 (Interfax-Ukraine) - TNK-BP has no plans to stop Lysychansk oil refinery (PJSC LINIK, Luhansk region) in April-May, TNK-BP Commerce President Didier Casimiro said at the press conference entitled "TOP-100. The Best Managers of Ukraine" at Interfax-Ukraine on Monday.

Average price of apartments in Kyiv reaches minimum over past five years, say experts

12:32

13.04.2011

Kyiv, April 13 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The average price of apartments in Kyiv in early April 2011 fell to a record low in the past five years, beating the previous low in April 2009 of $1,823.60 per square meter, and dipping to $1,813.20 per square meter, Chairman of the Committee for Analysis of the Union of Real Estate Experts of Ukraine Vsevolod Zhoholev has said.

SCM Group's banks to increase market share in terms of assets to over 5% by 2015

11:53

13.04.2011

Kyiv, April 13 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The banks that are part of the SCM Group - the First Ukrainian International Bank (FUIB), Dongorbank (both based in Donetsk) and Bank Renaissance Capital (Kyiv) - plan to increase their market share in terms of assets to over 5% by early 2015, FUIB Board Chairman Konstantin Waysman said at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine on Tuesday.

FUIB to issue domestic and foreign loan bonds in hryvnias in equivalent of $100m in H2, 2011

21:02

12.04.2011

The First Ukrainian International Bank (FUIB) plans to issue domestic and foreign loan bonds in hryvnias to the equivalent of $100 million in H2, 2011, Dmitriy Yurgens, the bank's deputy board chairman for the investment business, told the press on Tuesday.

MP Bohoslovska hopes gas agreements between Naftogaz and Gazprom will be revised

16:40

12.04.2011

Kyiv, April 12 (Interfax-Ukraine) - Ukrainian MP Inna Bohoslovska, who chairs a provisional parliamentary investigative commission probing the signing of gas agreements between Naftogaz Ukrainy and Gazprom during the premiership of Yulia Tymoshenko, has said she hopes talks will be held with Russia to change the terms of agreements dated January 19, 2009.

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