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 29.10.2008
Beer imports fell by 20.1% or 558,830 liters in September, compared to August, to 2,222,440 liters for USD 1.71 million.
This was informed in a statement of the State Statistics Committee.
In September beer was imported mainly from Russia (1,057,860 liters or 47.6% of the total beer imports).
In September 2008, beer imports rose by a factor of 2.9 or 1,441,980 liters, compared to September 2007.
In January-September 2008 beer imports rose by a factor of 2.2 or 10,089,530 liters compared to January-September 2007, to 18,833,940 liters for USD 14.90 million.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, the beer imports fell by 6.5% or 193,290 liters in August, compared to July, to 2,781,270 liters for USD 2.15 million.
Beer imports fell by 40.4% or 7,801,80 liters in 2007, compared to 2006, to 11,490,10 liters for USD 7.27 million.
 29.10.2008
700 men strong work collective of Kremenchuk technical carbon plant (Poltava region) will be working five hours per day since November 1.
Viacheslav Yavorskyi, director of Kremenchuk technical carbon plant, made this statement.
According to him, the innovation is connected with falling demand for technical carbon among car wheel makers.
«The crisis emerged in summer, when European freight carriers began protesting against high fuel prices,» he said.
«Today truck and car production is being reduced. Consequently, rubber supplies are declining,» he added.
Presently, the plant is producing technical carbon in two eight-hour shifts.
«We’re going to reduce working hours to five,» Yavorskyi said.
 28.10.2008
Serhii Biriuk, a member of the State Commission for Securities and the Stock Market (the Securities Commission), has forecast emergence of new financial-industrial groups as a result of the current economic instability.
Biriuk made the forecast in an interview published in the Biznes weekly newspaper.
"However, in the world and in Ukraine, those that 'came into cash' on the eve of the financial difficulties are now starting to buy promising enterprises at low prices. A serious redistribution of capital is talking place, new financial-industrial groups are being created," Biriuk said.
Moreover, according to Biriuk, the industrial enterprises that are oriented toward exports and foreign sources of finance are the most susceptible to the negative effects of the financial crisis.
"In Ukraine, the major owners and industrial enterprises that are oriented toward export or foreign sources of resources, including financial resources, can realistically incur losses," Biriuk said.
28.10.2008
Ukraine International Airlines (Kyiv) has increased the number of its weekly flights from 290 to 330 in the 2008/2009 winter timetable that came into effect on October 26.
The press service of International Airlines of Ukraine announced this to Ukrainian News .
«The number of flights during the 2008/2009 winter period is 330 per week, compared with 290 flights during the corresponding period of 2007/2008,» the press service said.
In particular, the frequency of Ukraine International Airlines’ own Kyiv-Vienna flights has increased to 13 per week through the addition of a second flight on Saturdays.
The number of flights that the company operates between Kyiv and Vienna in conjunction with its partners has reached 27 per week (four per day).
Moreover, the company intends to operate flights between Vienna and Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Lviv, Odesa, and Kharkiv, thus increasing the total number of flights between Ukraine and Austria to 65 per week.
The company has added Kyiv-Milan flights to its timetable for the first time.
The company will also continue its weekly flights from Lviv to Rome and Naples from October 2008 to March 2009.
21.10.2008
National Bank Chairman Volodymyr Stelmakh thinks it is possible that Prominvestbank, one of the biggest banks in Ukraine, will be sold to Ukrainian or foreign strategic investors.
He made this statement to the press.
"It looked like that bank had to become a national bank. But money for its nationalization is an issue. If there is money, they are welcome to nationalize it," he said.
Stelmakh noted that the National Security and Defense Council discussed the situation at Prominvestbank at its meeting on Monday, but did not pass any decision on its nationalization.
21.10.2008
The State Archive Committee of Ukraine and the General Directorate of State Archives of Poland have agreed on cooperation.
Ukrainian News learned this from the press service of the Ukrainian Embassy in Warsaw.
According to the embassy, the countries signed the agreement in Warsaw on October 17.
"This agreement will facilitate the expansion of cooperation between the archive departments of the countries and define concretely obligations of the sides in realization of the Joint Ukrainian-Polish Spiritual Heritage Project," the press service said.
During the talks that preceded the signing of the agreement, representatives of the archive agencies of Ukraine and Poland agreed to create a team of experts for return of archive valuables and organize a meeting of Polish archive specialists with Ukrainian specialists in Kyiv next May for the purpose of developing cooperation between them.
The sides also agreed to publish books in Ukrainian and Polish about regulatory framework of the archive business and build up cooperation in exchange of microfilms.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, in February 2206, the Cabinet of Ministers voiced intention to allocate UAH 435.708 million from the national budget in 2006-2010 for development of the archive business.
15.10.2008
Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Arsenii Yatseniuk, acting head of the National Bank of Ukraine in 2004-2005 and member of the NBU council, advocates nationalisation of one of Ukraine's biggest banks PromIvestBank.
He has announced this news reporters after a meeting of the expert economic council.
"I definitely stand for nationalisation of those commercial banks that have found themselves in hard financial condition today and who cannot cope with this situation on their own, starting from PromInvestBank of Ukraine," he says.
In the speaker's opinion, in the situation with PromInvestBank it would be most advisable to buy out the bank's statutory capital and all the shares through Oschadbank (the State Savings Bank), UkrExImBank or by passing a separate decision on nationalisation.
Yatseniuk stressed, many European states do so and it would be wise to apply this practice to Ukrainian commercial banks that suffer financial crisis.
06.10.2008
Verkhovna Rada Chairman Arsenii Yatseniuk considers that prolongation of the Ukrainian-Russian agreement on friendship and co-operation is an epoch event.
He said this at the meeting entitled "Diplomatic Club" organized by his Open Ukraine fund.
At the same time, Yatseniuk said that many provisions of the agreement are declarative and have no mechanisms of implementation.
He said that Ukraine and Russia should develop bilateral dialog over creation of relevant mechanisms.
"We have to add the Bid agreement. We should elaborate additional agreements for each item of this Agreement to envisage mechanism of implementation of the declared provisions," he said.
24.09.2008
Poland supposes that the local border traffic accord with Ukraine may be put into effect before the European Union extends its border norm at Poland's initiative.
A spokesman of the Polish Foreign Ministry's Department of Consular and Polonia Affairs has told this Ukrainian News.
"There's such a chance. A political decision may be passed," the source said when asked if the accord with Ukraine can be put into effect before the EU border norm changed.
But the Polish Foreign Ministry's spokesman stressed that the European Commission's position is to be taken into account when making such a decision, and it demands to reduce the border zone foreseen by the Ukrainian-Polish accord to 30 from 50 kilometers.
The source announced the Euro-commission's protest to the valid Ukraine-Hungary border traffic accord on the 50-kilometer zone.
"They [Hungary] face the European Court," he said.
22.09.2008
The Industrial Policy Ministry is forecasting a shortage of about 10 million tons of coking coal in 2009.
Industrial Policy Minister Volodymyr Novytskyi announced this to journalists.
«Shortage of coking coal is a serious problem that cannot be solved quickly,» Novytskyi said.
According to Novytskyi, the shortage will be the result of importation of small quantities of coking coal, the absence of a deep-water port, and insufficient volumes of mining by Ukrainian enterprises.
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