Senior OPEC and Russian oil industry officials stepped up vague talk on Monday of possible joint action to remedy one of the worst supply gluts in decades, while Saudi Arabia signaled its resolve to allow the market to balance itself.

• Date: 25.01.2016  |  Published on EGF: 25.01.2016  |  Energy  |  from http://www.reuters.com

Europe needs to make a greater contribution to stabilizing the Middle East and should think about developing a joint strategy with Russia to reduce tensions between regional powers Iran and Saudi Arabia, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said.

• Date: 24.01.2016  |  Published on EGF: 24.01.2016  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com

Ukraine will not give its eastern regions greater autonomy until a lasting ceasefire with pro-Russian separatist rebels is in place, President Petro Poroshenko said on Sunday, in comments that could antagonize the rebels and the Kremlin.

• Date: 24.01.2016  |  Published on EGF: 24.01.2016  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says he believes Washington may be able to consider lifting sanctions it imposed on Russia over its involvement in violence in Ukraine later this year if Moscow complies with the Minsk peace deal.

• Date: 24.01.2016  |  Published on EGF: 23.01.2016  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.rferl.org

Ukraine's state antimonopoly agency has imposed a $3.5 billion fine on Russia's Gazprom for allegedly abusing its monopoly control of Ukraine's natural-gas transit system.

• Date: 24.01.2016  |  Published on EGF: 23.01.2016  |  Energy  |  from http://www.rferl.org

Finland and Norway sought to ease migrant flows from Russia, as tensions over Europe's refugee crisis spread to the continent's northernmost frontiers.

• Date: 20.01.2016  |  Published on EGF: 20.01.2016  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com

Ukraine plans soon to launch a fresh diplomatic initiative to recover the Crimean peninsula from Russia which annexed it in 2014, Finance Minister Natalia Yaresko told Reuters on Wednesday.

• Date: 20.01.2016  |  Published on EGF: 20.01.2016  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com

A Ukrainian government order to cut off trade with the Russian-annexed Ukrainian region of Crimea has come into effect.

• Date: 19.01.2016  |  Published on EGF: 19.01.2016  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.rferl.org/