Gas
Russia’s Putin Proposes a “Eurasian Union” — But it’s all about Gas
October 07, 2011By Alina Inayeh/ BUCHAREST -- In an article published on Tuesday in the Russian newspaper Izvestia, Russia’s prime minister and presidential hopeful Vladimir Putin announced his major foreign policy goal: the creation of a “Eurasian Union...
Moscow increases economic stranglehold on Belarus and Ukraine, using its gas and customs union
August 04, 2011Moscow is piling the heat on Minsk and Kyiv to subordinate their economies, notably their energy sectors, to Russia and with that accept Russia’s political tutelage. In both cases, Moscow is using the instruments of its gas and its customs union...
Ukraine shows no hurry to return gas to RosUkrEnergo
July 02, 2010
by Pavel Korduban An international court has obliged Naftohaz Ukrainy, the state-controlled oil and gas behemoth, to pass 12 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas and $192 million to RosUkrEnergo (RUE), a joint venture of Gazprom and the Ukrainian businessman...
Bulgarian government disavows three Russian energy projects
June 15, 2010by Vladimir Socor Bulgarian government statements on June 11-12 have conclusively disavowed Russia’s projects to build the South Stream gas pipeline, Burgas-Alexandropolis oil pipeline, and Belene nuclear power plant, on Bulgaria’s territory...
Indian court convicts 8 in Bhopal disaster
June 07, 2010An Indian court Monday found eight people guilty of negligence in failing to prevent one of the world's worst industrial accidents that killed thousands of people. In December of 1984, a lethal plume of (methyl isocyanate) gas escaped from a storage...
Presiden Yanukovich's dubious deal
April 30, 2010By Michael Emerson The newly, democratically elected President Yanukovich of Ukraine has got off to a spectacularly fast but equally dubious start. First on his diplomacy. His first supposedly symbolic act of foreign policy was to fly to Brussels first...
Polarizing politics in Ukraine
April 28, 2010By David J. Kramer The agreement signed last week between Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev in which Ukraine will receive cheaper gas in exchange for extending Russia’s Black Sea Fleet presence in Crimea...
The Kremlin advances its vision for a “sphere of privileged interests” in Eurasia
April 27, 2010By Stephen Blank Russia’s strategic gains at Ukraine’s and Europe’s expense Russia’s new deal with Ukraine on the Black Sea Fleet (BSF) and gas prices has profound bilateral significance, as well as for the CIS and even Europe...
Kyiv considers offering concessions to the Kremlin
March 31, 2010By Pavel Korduban Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov returns empty-handed from Moscow Ukrainian Prime Minister, Mykola Azarov, failed to persuade Moscow to lower the price of gas for Ukraine. Although Kyiv’s offer of participation in a consortium...
Ukrainian President Yanukovych visits Russia, after Brussels
March 05, 2010Viktor Yanukovych makes his first visit to Russia today as president of Ukraine. Talks in Moscow are expected to focus on cash-strapped Ukraine's bill for Russian natural gas. Analysts say Yanukovych is hoping to renegotiate a 2009 deal negotiated by...