Global business leaders are thin on the ground at Russia's main investment conference in the face of government pressure to stay away because of the Ukraine crisis, but the Kremlin has advised Russian media not to make a big deal of it.

• Date: 22.05.2014  |  Published on EGF: 22.05.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Russian President Vladimir Putin hopes to sign a multi-billion dollar gas agreement with China during a two-day visit that kicks off on Tuesday, ending more than a decade of false starts and wrangling over a deal seen as vital to both sides.

• Date: 20.05.2014  |  Published on EGF: 20.05.2014  |  Energy  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Ukrainians will vote for a new president on Sunday but the election faces disruption in eastern regions of the former Soviet republic where pro-Russian separatists have seized strategic points in several cities.

• Date: 20.05.2014  |  Published on EGF: 20.05.2014  |  Markets  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

U.S. and euro zone data will help investors take the pulse of the global economy this week, but the crisis in Ukraine threatens to spoil any improvement.

• Date: 19.05.2014  |  Published on EGF: 19.05.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Germany and France are ready to agree more extensive sanctions against Russia if a planned presidential election in Ukraine on May 25 is foiled, Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Francois Hollande said on Saturday.

• Date: 10.05.2014  |  Published on EGF: 10.05.2014  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Holding drills on Ukraine's border and sending bombers to the edge of NATO airspace, Russia's newly reformed military is in just the kind of regional confrontation it was redesigned for, experts say.

• Date: 30.04.2014  |  Published on EGF: 30.04.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Fast good giant McDonald's closes three restaurants in Crimea citing ''manufacturing reasons,'' offers employees work at locations in Ukraine. Mana Rabiee reports.

• Date: 04.04.2014  |  Published on EGF: 04.04.2014  |  Markets  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

The European Central Bank will use whatever unconventional measures it has available to ensure low inflation does not take hold for too long in the euro zone, ECB President Mario Draghi said on Thursday.

• Date: 03.04.2014  |  Published on EGF: 03.04.2014  |  Markets  |  from http://www.reuters.com/