Gazprom
Turkey Seeks Price Cut On Russian Gas
October 01, 2011By Vladimir Socor -- Turkey has joined the growing ranks of claimants to revision of their contracts with Gazprom. On September 29, Turkish Energy Minister, Taner Yildiz, warned that Turkey would end a 25-year-old supply agreement with Gazprom,...
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...
Russia intends to strengthen its control over Transnistria (read: over Moldova and Ukraine)
July 07, 2011Chişinău / Moldova.ORG / -- While there are discussions about the "5+2" negotiations over the Transnistrian conflict, life goes on, and so the political life inside Transnistria, Moldova’s enclave on its eastern border with Ukraine that...
Russian ex-PM Viktor Chernomyrdin dies
November 03, 2010Viktor Chernomyrdin, who served under Boris Yeltsin as Russian prime minister during the 1990s, has died aged 72. He came to political prominence as a Soviet minister for the gas industry, and then as head of Russia's new gas monopoly, Gazprom. In...
Why the Russia spy story really matters
July 13, 2010By Gregory Feifer Invisible ink, instructions concealed in images posted on the Internet, a laptop in a Barnes & Noble flashing messages to a passing van: the high-tech spycraft used by the 10 now-confessed Russian intelligence agents arrested last...
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...
May 28, 2010By Alexandru Eftode When Moldova's acting president, liberal Mihai Ghimpu, was recently asked by a reporter, "Who is going to pay Gazprom for the natural gas consumed by the Transdniester separatist region?" Ghimpu took a big pause before...
Non-bloc status - Ukraine’s shift to Russian-vector orientation
May 21, 2010By Vladimir Socor Opening, alongside Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev, the Interstate Commission’s session, Ukrainian President, Viktor Yanukovych, turned the clock back to 1990. Invoking that year’s declaration of Ukraine’s sovereignty...
Russia leaks pro-western foreign policy blueprint
May 20, 2010By Roger McDermott Kremlin contemplates a seismic shift in Russian foreign policy Two conceptual strategy documents, one outlined in briefings by the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, and another “leaked” to Newsweek in Moscow appear...
Russia's Medvedev begins Ukraine visit
May 17, 2010By Brian Whitmore Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has arrived in Ukraine for a two-day visit in which he will seek to further strengthen the relationship between the two countries. Young Ukrainian women in folk dress greeted a smiling Medvedev as...