Japan has asked nuclear superpower Russia to send a special radiation treatment ship used to decommission nuclear submarines to help in its fight to contain the world’s worst atomic crisis since Chernobyl, Japanese media said

• Date: 06.04.2011  |  Published on EGF: 06.04.2011  |  Energy  |  from gulf-times.com

Bulgaria and Russia have signed a memorandum to stop construction of the Belene nuclear power plant for three months, Bulgaria's National Electric Company (NEK) said

• Date: 06.04.2011  |  Published on EGF: 06.04.2011  |  Energy  |  from People's Daily

Representatives of Ukraine and the European Union are due to meet in the EU headquarters city of Brussels for another round of negotiations toward reaching an association agreement between Ukraine and the EU.

• Date: 05.04.2011  |  Published on EGF: 05.04.2011  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.rferl.org/

The first stage of a program to modernize Ukraine's gas transportation system with international participation will be launched in June, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Yuriy Boyko said.

• Date: 02.04.2011  |  Published on EGF: 02.04.2011  |  Markets  |  from rian.ru

The Ukrainian-Russian intergovernmental working group on March 24, 2011 held the first stage of a meeting in Kyiv to draw up a plan of joint action to settle the conflict over public JSC Ukrtatnafta (Kremenchuk oil refinery, Poltava region), read a press release of the Energy and Coal Industry Ministry of Ukraine.

• Date: 25.03.2011  |  Published on EGF: 25.03.2011  |  Energy  |  from interfax.com.ua

Estonia's shale hub is Narva, in the northeast near the Russian border. Two underground mines and two open-cast pits in the area feed a duo of power stations -- the world's biggest oil shale-fired electricity plants.

• Date: 23.03.2011  |  Published on EGF: 23.03.2011  |  Energy  |  from news352.lu

Ukraine's joining a free trade area with the European Union will depend on greater flexibility and a readiness for a compromise with EU member states, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has said.

• Date: 22.03.2011  |  Published on EGF: 22.03.2011  |  External Relations  |  from interfax.com.ua

Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has said that Ukraine will revise its energy strategy for the long- term prospects, local media reported

• Date: 22.03.2011  |  Published on EGF: 22.03.2011  |  Energy  |  from ce.cn