Russian company Rosatom has started investing in the Turkish Akkuyu nuclear power plant project, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was quoted as saying today by the newspaper Sabah.

• December 5, 2012

Georgian Defence Minister Irakli Alasania has called on Russia to change its rhetoric.

• December 5, 2012

Russia's gas monopoly Gazprom is resuming on Wednesday negotiations for the supply of 68 billion cubic meters of natural gas to China annually for 30 years, and the talks expected to gain momentum when a high-level Chinese delegation led by Prime Minister Wen Jiabao arrives in Moscow later in the day, Russian media reported.

• December 5, 2012

ISSUE #47
12/03/2012
An association agreement between Ukraine and the EU may be signed during the Eastern Partnership summit in November 2013, the news and analysis web portal Lb.ua has quoted European Commissioner for Enlargement Stefan Fule as saying on 29 November 2012. READ MORE

• December 5, 2012

Canada was on the losing side of the vote Monday as the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution Monday calling on Israel to quickly open its nuclear program for inspection and backing a high-level conference to ban nuclear weapons from the Middle East which was just cancelled.

• December 4, 2012

Energy Minister Taner Yıldız confirmed on Tuesday that Ankara is in talks with Moscow to increase its gas supply to Turkey as US-led sanctions on Iran over its suspected nuclear program have forced Turkey to cut imports of Iranian gas.

• December 4, 2012

A forum titled “Eurasian integration in the 21st century” kicked off December 3 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, with a protocol on cooperation singed between representatives from United Russia, Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), Kazakhstan’s Nur Otan and New Azerbaijan Party political parties.

• December 4, 2012

A Snapshot of Key Developments in the External Relations of the Russian Gas Sector
By Jack Sharples, EGF Associate Researcher on the external dimensions of Russian gas

Key points:

• Gazprom announces an agreement with Poland’s PGNiG to adjust gas prices and signs an asset-swap deal with BASFT Wintershall, but remains under pressure in Europe due to falling export volumes and the EU antimonopoly investigation
• Ukraine continues to press for reduced imports of Russian gas and receives first deliveries from RWE
• Gazprom appears set to expand its underground gas storage facilities and gas transmission capacity in Belarus
• Slovenia and Bulgaria confirm their final investment decisions for the South Stream project, as Gazprom’s partners also take the final investment decision on the offshore section, while Gazprom signs a new gas supply contract with Bulgargaz
• Turkish regulators approve Gazprom’s new long-term supply contracts with private Turkish energy companies
• Gazprom demonstrates the potential for shipping LNG from Europe to Japan as it charters the first LNG supertanker to traverse the Arctic during winter
• Novatek acquires 49 percent of Northgas, with Gazprom retaining its 51 percent stake in the company

• December 4, 2012