Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has approved the agreement on the creation of the Council of Heads of Financial Intelligence Units of the Commonwealth of Independent States.

• April 8, 2013

Ukraine's natural gas shipper said that April marks the start of a break from Russia as more supplies start coming in from nearby Poland.

• April 1, 2013

The Russian government says it will not compensate Russian savers who have lost money in the Cyprus banking crisis.

• April 1, 2013

Bank of Cyprus depositors with more than 100,000 euros (£84,300; $128,200) could lose up to 60% of their savings as part of an EU-IMF bailout restructuring move, officials say.

• March 31, 2013

The little island of Cyprus was the largest foreign investor in both Russia and Ukraine before the collapse and restructuring of its banks.

• March 29, 2013

The five BRICS emerging-market nations will need more time to set up a new development bank as they work out details on funding and operations, Russia’s finance minister said.

• March 27, 2013

Gazprom has confirmed its interest in buying a combined cycle generation plants in Europe despite competition from cheap coal.

• March 26, 2013

In former Soviet Central Asia there is little debate that the root problem [of extremist beliefs] is “foreign ideas,” defined so broadly as to become a target of opportunity for both every political purpose and every local policeman or official’s ambition. Any sign of dissent from state policies or ideology can be enough to bring the wrath of the state, sometimes with great violence.

• March 25, 2013