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Metinvest B.V., the parent company of a vertically integrated group of steel and mining companies, announced its audited IFRS consolidated financial statements for the 12 months ended 31 December 2017.

Smart Energy Group has begun spudding of well No.10 at Vasischevskoye gas condensate deposit in Kharkov region.

Smart Maritime Group has been named a winner in the tender of Southern GOK (Southern Iron Ore Enrichment Works, Krivoy Rog) for the manufacture of basic elements of radial thickeners.The value of the contract will amount to UAH 175 million.

UNEX BANK has summed up the financial results for 2017. Based on the last year's performance, the bank continues to show a positive financial result.

Smart Maritime Group Shipbuilding Company (SMG, Kherson) supported a number of important social projects in 2017, having allocated almost UAH 1 million for this purpose.

Smart Maritime Group (SMG, Kherson), which combines Kherson and Nikolaev shipyards, modernized and repaired 78 vessels in 2017 against 46 ships repaired in 2016.

In 2017, the International Charitable Foundation in Honour of Intercession of the Most Holy Mother of God (ICF) of Vadym Novynskyi granted more than UAH 65 million for humanitarian and charity projects.

A delegation from Smart-Holding headed by the Company's CEO Alexey Pertin took part in the 48^th World Economic Forum (WEF), which took place on 23-26 January in Davos (Switzerland).

Smart-Holding considers the reference of the indictment to court by the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine in the criminal case of alleged entry of false information by officials of the State Property Fund of Ukraine, by senior executives of Kherson Shipyard and Chernomorsky Shipyard (ChSY) into the final audit report on compliance with the conditions of the contract for sale of shares in Chernomorsky Shipyard, as the next phase of the campaign to re-privatize ChSY in the interests of businesses close to those in power.

At the end of the last year, the Ukrainian parliament reduced the royalty rates for gas production from new wells to 12% and 6% depending on the depth, and pre-approved deregulation for gas producers. Importance of these changes, challenges of the gas producing industry, the necessary reforms, as well as the company‘s performance trend in general were recounted by Sergei Glazunov, the CEO of Smart Energy, a company managing energy assets of Smart-Holding, in the interview to Ukrainian News.