ISSUE #14
04/25/2011
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has said that Ukraine is not conducting negotiations on entering the Customs Union (CU) of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. “We are not in the process of negotiations with the CU,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kostyantyn Hryshchenko said in Parliament. He added that Ukraine had agreements on a free trade area (FTA) with each individual state member of the CU. READ MORE

• May 1, 2011

Ukrainians fear accidents at NPPs, − poll

A telephone poll was conducted by Gorshenin Institute on April 18 – 20, 2011, on the subject: “25 years after the Chernobyl NPP accident”. Overall 1000 respondents 18 years old and older were interviewed, based on a random sample, in all regional capitals of Ukraine, in Kyiv and Sevastopol. Regions of residence, gender and age of the respondents were used as quotas. The representation error of the poll does not exceed +/-3.2%. READ MORE

• May 1, 2011

Russian security forces on Friday killed 10 militants in a special operation in its violence-torn Northern Caucasus region, reports said.

• April 30, 2011

Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin has criticised Japan for its "slow" reaction to its nuclear disaster and for building nuclear reactors in earthquake-prone zones.

• April 30, 2011

Ukraine will be able to get liquefied gas from Azerbaijan in three years.

• April 30, 2011

Presidents Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan and Viktor Yanukovich of Ukraine have given a joint press conference, the official website of the Azerbaijani President reported.

• April 29, 2011

The two-day Global Forum on Sustainable Energy opened Thursday in Austrian Federal Economic Chamber in Vienna to discuss the potential of renewable energies and opportunities for greater energy policy between the Danube region and the Caucasus region.

• April 29, 2011

The interior ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), an intergovernmental security body, will meet on Thursday in the Kazakh capital Astana to discuss efforts to fight crime.

• April 28, 2011