Russia raised the gas price for Ukraine on Thursday for the second time this week, almost doubling it in three days and piling pressure on a neighbor on the brink of bankruptcy in the crisis over Crimea.

• Date: 03.04.2014  |  Published on EGF: 03.04.2014  |  Energy  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

The European Central Bank will use whatever unconventional measures it has available to ensure low inflation does not take hold for too long in the euro zone, ECB President Mario Draghi said on Thursday.

• Date: 03.04.2014  |  Published on EGF: 03.04.2014  |  Markets  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

NATO suspended all practical cooperation with Russia on Tuesday in protest at its annexation of Crimea, and ordered military planners to draft measures to strengthen its defenses and reassure nervous Eastern European countries.

• Date: 02.04.2014  |  Published on EGF: 02.04.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Russia has massed all the forces it needs on Ukraine's border if it were to decide to carry out an "incursion" into the country and it could achieve its objective in three to five days, NATO's top military commander said on Wednesday.

• Date: 02.04.2014  |  Published on EGF: 02.04.2014  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Russian natural gas producer Gazprom announced a more than 40 percent increase in the price of gas for Ukraine on Tuesday, stepping up economic pressure on Kiev in its crisis in relations with Moscow.

• Date: 01.04.2014  |  Published on EGF: 01.04.2014  |  Energy  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

A quarter-century after the fall of the Soviet Union, authoritarian rulers such as Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad are showing they can and will defy international norms, suppress dissent and use military force. American policymakers are struggling with how to respond.

• Date: 01.04.2014  |  Published on EGF: 01.04.2014  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held talks on Sunday about ways to defuse the crisis over Ukraine, with Kerry telling Moscow that progress depended on a Russian troop pullback from Ukraine's borders.

• Date: 31.03.2014  |  Published on EGF: 31.03.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Days before Crimea voted in a referendum to join Russia from Ukraine, Adam, a Chechen soldier, was ordered to go to the Black Sea peninsula to defend Russia's interests.

• Date: 30.03.2014  |  Published on EGF: 30.03.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/