Russia threw its weight behind ex-Soviet ally Belarus on Friday, urging the United States and the European Union not to introduce new economic sanctions against Minsk over human rights concerns.

• February 24, 2012

ISSUE #5
02/13/2012
On 9 February 2012, the Ukrainian parliament adopted in the first reading a presidential draft of the Criminal Procedure Code (CPC). The Ukrainian news and analysis website Lb.ua reported that the presidential draft of the CPC was registered in parliament on 13 January 2012. A group of lawmakers headed by presidential advisor Andriy Portnov has been working on it for a year and a half. READ MORE

• February 21, 2012

ISSUE #6
02/20/2012
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has again reshuffled the country's top leadership. On 14 February 2012, the president dismissed Andriy Klyuyev from the post of first deputy prime minister and economy minister and appointed him as secretary of the National Security and Defence Council (NSDC). READ MORE

• February 21, 2012

Russia has offered Ukraine a 10 percent discount on gas supplies on the condition that Kiev scraps plans to drastically cut its imports, Kommersant Ukraine newspaper reported on Monday, citing a source close to the talks.

• February 20, 2012

European milling wheat futures rose on
Friday as hopes Greece will clinch a long-awaited bailout deal heartened
investors and as a report Ukraine will limit wheat exports for the rest of the
season added some fundamental support.    

• February 17, 2012

The Russian Embassy in Ukraine will submit a proposal to the leadership of the Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Ministry to resume gas talks

• February 17, 2012

Iran's ambassador to Russia said plans to cut off supplies of Iranian crude to Europe would only benefit the Islamic republic, which in the past has been heavily dependent on imported fuel due to restricted refining capacity.

• February 16, 2012

In February members of Armenia-Belarus interparliamentary group of Belarusian National Assembly headed by co-chair Victor Guminsky met with Armenian National Assembly members in European agencies, with Ambassador of Belarus to Armenia Stepan Sukhorenko participating.

• February 14, 2012