Ukraine
$1 billion to be invested in construction of Odessa-Reni highway
November 17, 2009The Ukrainian government has included a construction of the Odessa-Reni highway to the state plan to build roads, the governor of Odessa Region, Mykola Serdyuk, said. The highway will run on the Ukrainian territory which will help to get from Odessa to...
Moldova's temperature in the "CIS economy"
October 08, 2009The results of eight months of the CIS economic life do not differ considerably from the deplorable results for the first half-year, experts, who analyzed the data, published by the CIS Statistic Committee, came to this conclusion. Compared with the...
IMF, WB revise loan conditions to support E.Europe through crisis
October 07, 2009By Ron Synovitz Russia said this week that it will not disburse the last $500 million tranche of a stabilization loan to Belarus and that it will not grant a $5 billion loan to Ukraine. Speaking in Istanbul at the start of the annual International...
Moldova's industrial output and freight turnover decline in 2009
August 20, 2009Moldova registered the CIS worst industrial output and freight turnover indicators for the first half-year. According to the CIS Committee for Statistics, the average industrial slippage for the first half-year in the CIS countries constituted 15% against...
China, EU Wait In The Wings For Access To Central Asia
August 03, 2009By Bruce Pannier Although Russia and the United States are most often mentioned as the contestants of the "new Great Game" that began after the fall of the Soviet Union, other players have also entered the arena. Central Asia, possessing...
EU Warns Member States of New Russian-Ukrainian Gas War
July 08, 2009By Roman Kupchinsky Following a recent telephone conversation between the head of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso, and the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the commission urged all E.U. member states to immediately begin filling gas...
Gazprom Stays the Course Under Putin's "Manual Management"
June 29, 2009By Pavel K. Baev Russian energy super-giant Gazprom has taken severe blows in the still-deepening recession, and the worst setbacks have happened in its most profitable market - the European Union. Various assessments show that the volume of its export...
Ukraine hopes for resuming power supply to Moldova
June 26, 2009Ukrainian began talks on resuming its electric power exports to Moldova, Ukrainian mass media communicate with reference to Minister of Fuel and Energy Yury Prodan. He did not exclude that the supply will be resumed in July. "We have already received...
Economic Crisis Threatens to Kill Off the CIS
June 25, 2009By Paul Goble The economic crisis in the Russian Federation and other post-Soviet states may finally lead to the complete collapse of the Commonwealth of Independent States because, in the absence of agreement on a common plan of action, the number...
Moldova's foreign trade: exports to EU more than half of total
June 09, 2009Exports of Moldovan goods to EU were worth 154.2 million dollars in nominal value in the 1st quarter of 2009, decreasing by more than 14 percent compared with January-March 2008. According to NBS, exports to EU count for more than 55 percent of overall...