The following is the text of an article by Valentyn Prototskyy entitled "Vitaliy Hayduk: Is he also oil and gas now?" and posted on the news and analysis website Ukrayinska Pravda on 26 September: The co-owner of the Industrial Union of Donbass group, Vitaliy Hayduk, using his absolute influence on the prime minister, keeps lobbying hard to take over the oil and gas industry.

The head of Russia's Gazprom gas monopoly, Aleksey Miller, who visited Kiev on 22 July, has proposed switching to gas price fixing based on a specific market formula under which Ukraine would be buying gas at 75-80 per cent of the price Poland pays, a business daily has reported.

Excerpt from report by private Ukrainian news agency UNIAN Kiev, 22 July: The head of [Russia's] Gazprom, Aleksey Miller, has invited Ukraine to discuss the possibility of concluding long- term gas supply contracts.

KYIV. July 7 (Interfax) - Ukrainian Prime Minister has said she is opposed to the idea of privatizing national oil and gas company Naftogaz Ukrainy. "Naftogaz Ukrainy and the gas transportation system should not be touched," she told journalists in Kyiv on Monday.

MOSCOW. May 29 (Interfax) - Ukraine's Naftogaz is not currently in arrears for gas, Russia's Gazprom (RTS: GAZP) said in a statement following talks between its chief executive, Alexei Miller, and Naftogaz chief Oleh Dubyna in Moscow on Wednesday.