A senior EU official says Ukraine still has to take "decisive" action on its internal reform programme.

• Date: 12.04.2013  |  Published on EGF: 12.04.2013  |  External Relations  |  from theparliament.com

Ukraine plans by 2014 to liberalize gas laws in line with the requirements of European laws, Deputy Energy and Coal Industry Minister Volodymyr Makukha said at the Polish-Ukrainian gas conference in Warsaw on Thursday, April 11.

• Date: 11.04.2013  |  Published on EGF: 11.04.2013  |  Energy  |  from kyivpost.com

In the aftermath of the 2008 Russia-Georgia war, Russia recognized Abkhazia, a breakaway region of Georgia, as a fully independent country. Then, Moscow funneled half a billion dollars into Russian air, naval and border defense bases in Abkhazia, an entity almost the size of Kosovo.

• Date: 11.04.2013  |  Published on EGF: 11.04.2013  |  External Relations  |  from voanews.com

Civil aviation authorities of Turkey and Russia signed a civil aviation agreement Monday to enhance cooperation in airspace use, code sharing and increasing the number of flights between the two countries.

• Date: 09.04.2013  |  Published on EGF: 09.04.2013  |  External Relations  |  from worldbulletin.net

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.

• Date: 08.04.2013  |  Published on EGF: 08.04.2013  |  Markets  |  from interfax.com.ua

The Russian government, the expert community in Moscow and the national economic elite are actively discussing the economic future of the nation and possible drastic financial policy changes as the economy slumps into potentially long-term stagflation, which may fundamentally destabilize the regime.

• Date: 05.04.2013  |  Published on EGF: 05.04.2013  |  External Relations  |  from jamestown.org

Ukraine has not received concrete complaints from Russia concerning gas supplies from Europe, Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Minister Eduard Stavytsky has said.

• Date: 05.04.2013  |  Published on EGF: 05.04.2013  |  Energy  |  from interfax.com.ua

Authorities in the Russian city of St. Petersburg have investigated the operations of the international Catholic charity group Caritas.

• Date: 04.04.2013  |  Published on EGF: 04.04.2013  |  External Relations  |  from rferl.org