Ukraine could bring in more international majors to explore its hydrocarbon fields on production-sharing terms and become a net gas exporter by 2025, Energy and Coal Minister Eduard Stavytsky said.

• Date: 15.04.2013  |  Published on EGF: 15.04.2013  |  Energy  |  from interfax.com.ua

The U.S. general tapped to serve as NATO's next supreme allied commander has told the U.S. Congress that the alliance must find ways to cooperate with Russia despite rocky relations between the two countries.

• Date: 12.04.2013  |  Published on EGF: 12.04.2013  |  External Relations  |  from rferl.org

A senior EU official says Ukraine still has to take "decisive" action on its internal reform programme.

• Date: 12.04.2013  |  Published on EGF: 12.04.2013  |  External Relations  |  from theparliament.com

Ukraine plans by 2014 to liberalize gas laws in line with the requirements of European laws, Deputy Energy and Coal Industry Minister Volodymyr Makukha said at the Polish-Ukrainian gas conference in Warsaw on Thursday, April 11.

• Date: 11.04.2013  |  Published on EGF: 11.04.2013  |  Energy  |  from kyivpost.com

In the aftermath of the 2008 Russia-Georgia war, Russia recognized Abkhazia, a breakaway region of Georgia, as a fully independent country. Then, Moscow funneled half a billion dollars into Russian air, naval and border defense bases in Abkhazia, an entity almost the size of Kosovo.

• Date: 11.04.2013  |  Published on EGF: 11.04.2013  |  External Relations  |  from voanews.com

Civil aviation authorities of Turkey and Russia signed a civil aviation agreement Monday to enhance cooperation in airspace use, code sharing and increasing the number of flights between the two countries.

• Date: 09.04.2013  |  Published on EGF: 09.04.2013  |  External Relations  |  from worldbulletin.net

The Russian government, the expert community in Moscow and the national economic elite are actively discussing the economic future of the nation and possible drastic financial policy changes as the economy slumps into potentially long-term stagflation, which may fundamentally destabilize the regime.

• Date: 05.04.2013  |  Published on EGF: 05.04.2013  |  External Relations  |  from jamestown.org

Ukraine has not received concrete complaints from Russia concerning gas supplies from Europe, Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Minister Eduard Stavytsky has said.

• Date: 05.04.2013  |  Published on EGF: 05.04.2013  |  Energy  |  from interfax.com.ua