INTERFAX-CHINA - Ukrainian coal producer OJSC Lisichanskugol hopes to secure an $85-million loan from the state-run China Development Bank to finance a pilot project to upgrade the D. Melnikov Mine, the company said in a statement posted on a state purchases web-portal.

• September 20, 2011

Following talks held in Baku between the Minister of Industry and Energy of Azerbaijan Natik Aliyev and Minister of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine Yuriy Boyko, the sides signed a protocol, Ministry's press secretary Azer Mensimli told Trend.

• September 20, 2011

Azerbaijani Industry and Energy Minister Natig Aliyev and Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Minister Yuriy Boyko are discussing cooperation in the energy sector in Baku, the Ukrainian Embassy in Baku told Trend on Monday.

• September 19, 2011

State-controlled energy giant Gazprom is planning, along with western partners, two huge gas pipeline projects whose stated goals are to secure Europe's energy supplies but which critics say will increase the EU's dependence on Russia.

• September 16, 2011

Visiting Chinese top legislator Wu Bangguo said Wednesday that China would work with Russia to deepen pragmatic cooperation and build a close, long-term and sustainable economic and trade relationship.

• September 15, 2011

ISSUE #30
09/12/2011
The court in the case of the former prime minister and leader of the Fatherland Party, Yuliya Tymoshenko, has announced a break in hearings till 27 September 2011. By doing so, judge Rodion Kireyev satisfied Tymoshenko's request to give her time to get prepared for debates in court. READ MORE

• September 15, 2011

Insights into Turkish Domestic and International Politics during August 2011
Key developments:

• Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan visits Mogadishu on a famine aid mission, the first visit by a non-African head of state in nearly 20 years. The trip is a huge boost to Turkey’s international image.
  
• Violence in the south-east of the country continues, leading to Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) cross-border raids into Iraq.
  
• Following criticism from the US Secretary of State, the justice ministry contradicts the number of journalists said to be held by Turkish authorities.
  
• Ankara continues to condemn the Syrian regime despite not calling for the resignation of President Bashar al- Assad. The country wins a seat at the Paris meeting of the new Libyan government following the apparent collapse of the Gaddafi regime.
  
• Azerbaijan and Turkey continue to negotiate a gas transit agreement, while Turkey’s reliance on foreign energy imports has reportedly increased 5 % since the AKP came to power.
  

• September 15, 2011

China's President Hu Jintao has a reserved demeanor. So it is hard to imagine him as a poker player. But in energy politics with neighboring Russia, he certainly is.

• September 14, 2011