Russia signaled on Wednesday that it could toughen demands for gas payments from Ukraine if Kiev fails to fulfill existing agreements, increasing pressure on an ex-Soviet neighbor gripped by an economic and political crisis.

• Date: 06.02.2014  |  Published on EGF: 06.02.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich went on sick leave on Thursday with an acute respiratory ailment, leaving a political vacuum in a country destabilized by anti-government protests.

• Date: 30.01.2014  |  Published on EGF: 30.01.2014  |  Markets  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

President Vladimir Putin raised the pressure on Ukraine on Wednesday, saying Russia would wait until it forms a new government before fully implementing a $15 billion bailout deal that Kiev urgently needs.

• Date: 30.01.2014  |  Published on EGF: 30.01.2014  |  Markets  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Ukraine's interim prime minister pledged on Wednesday to work to limit damage to the economy from more than two months of turmoil and said he expected Russia to disburse a further $2 billion of aid "very soon".

• Date: 29.01.2014  |  Published on EGF: 29.01.2014  |  Markets  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Russia will honor its pledge to lend Ukraine $15 billion and reduce the price of gas it supplies to its neighbor even if the opposition forms the next government, President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday.

• Date: 29.01.2014  |  Published on EGF: 29.01.2014  |  Markets  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov offered his resignation to President Viktor Yanukovich on Tuesday, saying he hoped his departure would help towards a peaceful settlement to two months of unrest which has convulsed the former Soviet republic.

• Date: 28.01.2014  |  Published on EGF: 28.01.2014  |  Markets  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Ukraine is borrowing another $2 billion from Russia on the same terms as a $3 billion Eurobond sold in December, in a sign that Moscow is pushing on with a $15 billion bailout despite concern about violence at anti-government protests in Kiev.

• Date: 28.01.2014  |  Published on EGF: 28.01.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Hungary's development minister said on Sunday the government should soon complete talks with Russia on a multi-billion dollar sovereign loan that would enable it to start work on two new nuclear reactors.

• Date: 27.01.2014  |  Published on EGF: 27.01.2014  |  Markets  |  from http://www.reuters.com/