In the period from January to June 2012 Ukraine reduced the import of natural gas from the Russian Federation by 55% against the same period of last year – to 16 billion cubic meters. Such update was publicized today by Ukrtransgaz company. The press-service of the enterprise points out that in the first half-year period […]

The Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovich said to the journalists during the press-conference in Donetsk, that he is expecting the official Kyiv and Moscow to reach the consensus on the ‘gas issue’ very soon. This is reported by the press-service of the President. “I am looking at the relationship between Russia and Ukraine with great enthusiasm, […]

The head of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine Mykola Azarov said on May 7 that his country, which is at present fully dependent on the Russian gas deliveries, may in perspective increase its domestic production of the natural fuel from twenty billion cubic meters to sixty billion cubic meters. This was declared by Mykola […]

The government of Ukraine considers it possible to adopt the state budget for 2012 with the maximum possible target price and in case of reaching the agreement with Russia on the price reduction – to insert an amendment into the document, the prime-minister Nickolay Azarov told the journalists. At the same time he did not […]

Russia will have to make peace with Ukraine in the issue of gas price reconsideration, the ex-head of the press-service of the Naftogaz company Valentin Zamlyansky told the journalists commenting upon the outcomes of the negotiations between Viktor Yanukovich, Vladimir Putin and Dmitriy Medvedev. “Russia has to make peace with Ukraine because of the slowing […]