Gorshenin Institute conducted a round table called “The relations between Ukraine and Russia after Ukraine signs the FTZ agreement with the EU”, where experts discussed the future of Ukrainian-Russian relations in the event of Ukraine signing the Free Trade Zone Agreement with Europe.

The President of expert consulting firm “NEOKON”, Mikhail Khazin, thinks that if Ukraine enters a Free Trade Zone with the EU it can lose the Russian market and a number of its industries. READ MORE

• June 29, 2011

A 46-nation export control group has acted to bar states that shun a global anti-nuclear weapons pact from obtaining technology which can be used to make atomic bombs, diplomats and experts say.

• June 28, 2011

Pakistan’s nuclear capability was purely for peaceful purposes, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has said while declaring that the country would build more power plants to meet its growing energy needs.

• June 28, 2011

China issued its first shale gas exploration tender with an offer of four blocks to a group of Chinese energy companies, state media reported, as the country kicks off its search for potentially vast reserves of the unconventional resource.

• June 28, 2011

Kazakh investors are showing great interest in a series of hydropower plants. Kyrgyz Energy Minister Askarbek Shadiyev noted that the Kyrgyz side is ready for further negotiations. Kazakhstan is ready to build the “Datka-Kemin” power line in Kyrgyzstan based on a concession agreement.

• June 27, 2011

Russia and Ukraine are among seven nations that will join an EU nuclear stress test program to examine whether nuclear power plants can withstand accidents and disasters.

• June 27, 2011

Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani Monday categorically stated that country’s nuclear capability was purely for peaceful purposes and it would build more power plants to meet its growing energy needs.

• June 27, 2011

In May the British energy consulting firm Gaffney, Cline and Associates made an announcement that generated a lot of attention in the oil and gas business – and beyond.

• June 25, 2011