ISSUE # 13
04/15/2013
The EU welcomes the pardoning of former Ukrainian Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko, the EU high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, Catherine Ashton, and the EU commissioner for enlargement and neighborhood policy, Stefan Fule, said on 8 April 2013. The EU officials added that Brussels was anticipating Kiev's decision on the remaining cases of what it saw as selective justice. READ MORE

• April 19, 2013

Foreign ministers of Turkey and Russia Ahmet Davutoglu and Sergei Lavrov discussed the Syrian crisis at a meeting on Wednesday, Turkish TRT Haber TV channel reported.

• April 18, 2013

Russia's government institutions and a significant number of private companies have not suffered any damage from the crisis in Cyprus, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said.

• April 18, 2013

The European Parliament is set to take a close look at a report on Ukraine that could pave the way to a landmark political association and free trade deal with the European Union.

• April 18, 2013

Murmansk region will import Norwegian gas for heating instead of Russian fuel oil.

• April 17, 2013

The pace of growth in the Russian economy, part of the once fast-moving Brics bloc of developing countries, slowed to 1.1% in the first three months of 2013.

• April 17, 2013

Belarus and Russia will stage a joint military exercise on Belarusian territory in September, allegedly to rehearse a defense against a Polish attack on the country.

• April 17, 2013

Russia and Cuba are preparing a joint energy project. Russia will provide a loan of 1.2 billion euros and help Cuba modernize four units of thermal power plants.

• April 16, 2013