The rules of the game for foreign investors into Russian energy projects are not to be changed when the new government is formed after the President’s elections 2012, the deputy minister of Energy Minister of the Russian Federation Anatoliy Yanovsky said. “The efficiency of any policy including the energy one shows itself first of all […]

The US State Secretary Hillary Clinton and the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Konstyantyn Gryschenko effected the deal on the recovery of Ukrainian weapon-grade plutonium deposits. Clinton classified this deal as mutually beneficial pointing out that both the people of Ukraine and global safety will benefit from that, the news agencies […]

Minenergo (the Energy Ministry of the Russian Federation) counts on resuming the Russian energy companies operation in Libya and in reviving the cooperation in the sphere of the energy industry between the two countries, the head of the International cooperation department of Minenergo Alexander Sukhov said at the press-conference. ‘Minenergo is hoping of resuming such […]

“Ukraine would like more clarity on the part of Russia and the European Union concerning the perspectives of using its gas transportation system”, — the Ukrainian media agencies quote the press-secretary of the Ukrainian prime-minister Vitaliy Lukyanenko saying. The Ukrainian party is concerned with Russia building a bypass pipeline beyond the boundaries of Ukraine. In […]

On September 12 and 13 the delegation from Ukraine has been in Ashkhabad with the visit the main topic of which is the negotiating concerning the Turkmen gas delivery to Ukraine. Yury Boiko, the Minister of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine who accompanies the head if the state in this trip has declared more […]

The restructuring of the national joint-stock company Naftogaz of Ukraine planned by the Cabinet of Ministers will lead to reconsideration of the gas agreements with the Russian Gazprom. This was declared by Prime Minister Mykola Azarov in the press-conference in Kiev on Friday. Naftogaz of Ukraine will cease to exist as an economic agent, there […]

On August 24 President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev made a statement about the willingness of the government of the Russian Federation to apply an integration discount to the gas exported to the Republic of Ukraine on condition that Kyiv comes up with mutually beneficent economic proposals. President Medvedev believes that the terms of […]

The government of the Russian Federation announced that the compromise with Belarus on the issue of reducing gas prices starting from the beginning of the next year is reached, emphasizing the connection of this decision with the merger within the framework of the Customs Union and the acquisition of the second half of Beltransgaz assets […]

“The government of Ukraine is at present considering the possibility of repudiating a gas agreement with Russia of January 2009 in a judicial procedure”, — the prime-minister of the country Mykola Azarov says. The head of the Ukrainian government made this statement today, on August 5 in the court where he was questioned as a […]