The Russian Navy's first aircraft carrier could be constructed in cooperation with Ukrainian shipbuilders, a source in the main headquarters of the Russian Navy told Interfax on Tuesday.
Ukraine's Customs Service has almost completely stopped grain exports and has strengthened its recently imposed additional grain quality checks, traders said on Tuesday.
A Ukrainian delegation headed by the country's energy minister, Yury Boiko, is to arrive in Moscow on Friday for talks with Gazprom's management, the Russian gas monopoly's spokesman said.
Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych said he will personally monitor the implementation of national investment projects, when speaking to the members of the president's economic reform committee in Kyiv on Wednesday.
Transport and Communications Minister of Ukraine Kostiantyn Yefymenko has supported the privatization of state enterprise Yalta maritime merchant port, the ministry's press service has reported.
Ukraine will halve its 2010 grain exports, adding pressure to markets already grappling with Russia's drought-induced grain export ban, while the world's top wheat buyer Egypt remains set on importing 6 million tonnes.
Ukraine's gross domestic product (GDP) in terms of prices fixed in 2007 grew by 6% in the second quarter of 2010 year-over-year, the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine reported on Monday.
