The West should impose tougher sanctions on Russia, which is waging a "hidden war" in eastern Ukraine, Ukraine's acting Foreign Minister Andriy Deshchytsia said in an interview with German newspaper Die Welt.

• Date: 17.05.2014  |  Published on EGF: 17.05.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Russia's Gazprom assured European customers it would continue to supply their gas, after its threat to halts supplies to transit nation Ukraine next month over non-payment.

• Date: 17.05.2014  |  Published on EGF: 17.05.2014  |  Energy  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Seventy years after their families' mass deportation under Soviet leader Josef Stalin, the Crimean Tatars are in a quandary: should they cooperate with their homeland's new Russian authorities or resist them?

• Date: 15.05.2014  |  Published on EGF: 15.05.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Europe is partly to blame for the crisis in Ukraine although this is no excuse for Russian behavior towards the former Soviet republic, German Chancellor Angela Merkel's deputy said on Wednesday.

• Date: 14.05.2014  |  Published on EGF: 14.05.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Russia's Gazprom (GAZP.MM) demanded a $1.66 billion pre-payment from Ukraine for June gas deliveries on Tuesday, saying the neighboring country had only half its requirements in storage to ensure a trouble-free winter

• Date: 13.05.2014  |  Published on EGF: 13.05.2014  |  Energy  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Russia said on Tuesday new European Union sanctions will hinder efforts to defuse the crisis in Ukraine and urged the West to persuade Kiev to hold discussions on the country's future structure before a May 25 presidential election.

• Date: 13.05.2014  |  Published on EGF: 13.05.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Russia will be ready to hold more talks with Ukraine on its natural gas supplies only when Kiev pays its gas debt to Moscow, Deputy Energy Minister Anatoly Yanovsky said on Monday.

• Date: 12.05.2014  |  Published on EGF: 12.05.2014  |  Energy  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Ukrainian leader Oleksander Turchinov accused Russia of working to overthrow legitimate state power in Ukraine on Monday after pro-Russian rebels declared a resounding victory in rebel referendums on self-rule in eastern regions.

• Date: 12.05.2014  |  Published on EGF: 12.05.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/