Ukraine
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...
Moldovan rebel region, Ukrainian police bust counterfeiting ring
June 02, 2009The state security ministry in Moldova's breakaway Dniester region has confirmed its involvement in detaining a group of counterfeiters by Ukrainian policemen in the southern Ukrainian town of Illichivsk, the Moldovan Infotag news agency reported on ...
Moldova-Vin agency: alcohol output drops due to demand decrease
May 29, 2009‘The output of alcoholic products dropped in January-April 2009 by over 30% against the same period of 2008 due to the decrease in the demand for these products abroad and the respective decline of sales’ Deputy Director of the Moldova-Vin...
Ukraine’s electricity exports shrink, Moldova ceases buying it
May 29, 2009In January-April 2009, Ukraine's total electricity exports shrank 2.2 fold against the equivalent period of last year down to 1,063 million kilowatt/hours. And an essential reason for this was that Moldova ceased buying power from Ukraine and began receiving...
Moscow Playing with Multiple Options on Black Sea Pipelines
May 29, 2009By Vladimir Socor On May 17 in Sochi the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyp Erdogan concluded a deal on natural gas. Putin and Gazprom CEO Aleksei Miller promised to proceed with the Blue Stream Two gas pipeline...
Ukraine hardens rules for employment of non-citizens
May 28, 2009Pursuant to Ukrainian law, a Ukraine-based company may employ non-citizens only after obtaining a work permit (with some exceptions). On April 8, 2009 the Ukrainian government adopted a new procedure for obtaining work permits for non-citizens, replacing...