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    [Ticker] Ukraine and Russia agree winter gas supplies
    Oct20

    [Ticker] Ukraine and Russia agree winter gas supplies

    Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko has confirmed that a gas-supply deal was secured at a meeting on Friday in Milan with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Russia is demanding pre-payment for the gas while accepting a discount of $100 per one thousand cubic metres. …read more Source:...

    Putin makes nice on Ukraine at EU-Russia mini-summit
    Oct17

    Putin makes nice on Ukraine at EU-Russia mini-summit

    Putin has told EU leaders that he wants pro-Russia rebels to make peace with Ukraine, amid scepticism on his true intentions. …read more Source:...

    [Ticker] Russia warns of ‘significant risk’ on EU gas supplies
    Oct17

    [Ticker] Russia warns of ‘significant risk’ on EU gas supplies

    Russian leader Vladimir Putin said in Belgrade on Thursday there “are significant transit risks” for EU winter gas supplies through Ukraine. He noted that EU “political” objections to Russia’s South Stream are “damaging the economy”. He also promised to invest an extra $1bn in Serbia’s Russia-owned...

    Putin says Western sanctions threaten nuclear ‘stability’
    Oct16

    Putin says Western sanctions threaten nuclear ‘stability’

    Russian leader Vladimir Putin has said the Ukraine crisis threatens nuclear “strategic stability” and global “economic health”. …read more Source:...

    Serbia refuses to join EU sanctions on eve of Putin parade
    Oct15

    Serbia refuses to join EU sanctions on eve of Putin parade

    Serbia has promised not to impose EU-model sanctions on Russia and to go ahead with South Stream on the eve of Vladimir Putin’s visit to Belgrade. …read more Source:...

    [Ticker] Lavrov woos European firms on EU sanctions
    Oct14

    [Ticker] Lavrov woos European firms on EU sanctions

    Russian FM Lavrov told the AEB, a European business lobby, in Moscow Tuesday Russia sanctions will cost the EU €40bn in 2014 and €50bn next year, Bloomberg reports. AEB chairman Pegorier said “The European business community is angry that it is being sacrificed by both the European and Russian authorities”. …read more Source:...

    [Ticker] Russia and China sign energy accords
    Oct13

    [Ticker] Russia and China sign energy accords

    Russia and China Monday signed 38 new accords, related to Russian gas supplies. Russia’s Medvedev referred to doing it in “difficult times”, with the ruble at an all-time low on EU sanctions. But there is little sign of a thaw, after Merkel cancelled an upcoming meeting with Putin in Sochi. …read more Source:...

    [Ticker] Russia orders troops to leave Ukraine border area
    Oct12

    [Ticker] Russia orders troops to leave Ukraine border area

    Russian news agencies report Moscow is to move back troops from the Ukraine border to permanent bases, amid a “ceasefire” in Ukraine which has seen 330 deaths since 5 September. But senators have in a letter to the White House warned it plans to station tactical nuclear weapons in Crimea. …read more Source:...

    [Ticker] Serbian president criticises EU foreign policy
    Oct12

    [Ticker] Serbian president criticises EU foreign policy

    Serbian president Nikolic told the Rossiya-1 broadcaster Saturday the EU should stop pressure on Belgrade to adopt sanctions on Russia. “Serbia … wants to be with both Russia and the European Union. And this should be granted,” he said, noting the EU has “no common foreign policy on any matter”. …read more Source:...

    [Ticker] Putin wants EU-Moldova treaty frozen until 2016
    Oct10

    [Ticker] Putin wants EU-Moldova treaty frozen until 2016

    Russian leader Putin at a summit with former Soviet states in Minsk has said the EU should postpone a free trade deal with Moldova until 2016. Referring to the EU’s agreement to put off its Ukraine trade pact, he said: “Why couldn’t we build a relationship like that with Moldova?” …read more Source:...