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[Ticker] Sefcovic hopes for autumn Ukraine-Russia gas deal
EU energy commissioner Sefcovic said Tuesday he hopes a Ukraine-Russia deal on gas can be concluded this autumn. After trilateral negotiations broke down two weeks ago, the EU will first hold bilateral talks. The EU is also “working very closely with international financial institutions” to help Ukraine purchase gas. …read more...
[Ticker] Russia wants quotas on ‘risk group’ of EU products
Russian deputy economy minister Likhachev told Tass Monday Russia has asked the EU and Ukraine to approve a “risk group” of products. The items would face quotas on exports to Russia to prevent cheap EU goods being re-exported to Russia after the EU-Ukraine free trade pact begins life next year. …read more Source:...
EU ‘frustrated’ as Russia-Ukraine gas talks break down
Bad will, legal disputes, and the “high politics” of the Russia-Ukraine conflict have, again, put EU gas transit at risk for the coming winter. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Ukraine stops buying Russian gas
Ukraine has stopped buying gas from Russia after a price deal expired on 30 June and talks in Vienna failed to produce a new agreement. It will continue to transit gas to Russia’s EU customers. But the breakdown in talks poses questions on future winter transit if bad blood persists. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Russia investigates legality of Baltic states’ independence
Russia’s prosecutor general is investigating whether it was legal, in constitutional terms, for the USSR’s State Council to recognise the independence of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania in 1991, Interfax reports. The prosecutor recently said the USSR’s transfer of Crimea to Ukraine, 1954, was illegal. …read more Source:...
‘Mr. Putin isn’t done in eastern Ukraine’
Nato says Russia is ready to escalate fighting in Ukraine, with Odessa, and Ukraine’s Black Sea coast, on the strategic front line. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Saakashvili: Summer is ‘dangerous period’ for Ukraine crisis
Former Georgian leader Saakashvili, now governor of Ukrainian province Odessa, told this website in Brussels that while other topics claim this week’s summit, the “Ukraine issue is not going away”. “Summer is a very dangerous period. That’s usually when Putin likes to fight his wars and dirty campaigns”, he said. …read more...
[Feature] Russian propaganda wins EU hearts and minds
One in three Germans think the EU should relax Russia sanctions and half of French people blame Ukraine for the war, posing questions on Nato’s Article V. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Yanukovych admits ‘responsibility’ for Maidan killings
“I don’t deny my responsibility”, former Ukrainian president Yanukovych said in a BBC interview about the shooting of protesters in Kiev early 2014, which was followed by his overthrow and the Russia conflict. Yanukovych said he didn’t order violence, but “the security forces fulfilled their duties”....
[Ticker] Russia to extend EU counter-sanctions
Russia has indicated it will extend its ban on most EU food imports in reaction to the EU’s extension, Monday, of economic and Crimea sanctions. PM Medvedev said he had tasked a deputy to appeal to president Putin for the move. Putin’s spokesman, Peskov, said Russia will observe “reciprocity”. …read more Source:...
