Russia's on-again, off-again plan to pursue World Trade Organization (WTO) membership bid jointly with Kazakhstan and Belarus (first announced in June 2009) remains up in the air.

• Date: 19.05.2010  |  Published on EGF: 19.05.2010  |  External Relations  |  from atimes.com

Ukraine's decision to extend the lease for the Russian fleet in the Crimea has been extremely controversial. However, in the port city of Sevastopol, locals are enthusiastic - the Russian naval base is the primary source of income for most of the region.

• Date: 18.05.2010  |  Published on EGF: 18.05.2010  |  External Relations  |  from france24.com

Ukraine’s credit ratings were raised at Standard & Poor’s on improvements in the country’s policy coordination and after a Russian gas subsidy agreement helped boost the government’s debt outlook.

• Date: 18.05.2010  |  Published on EGF: 18.05.2010  |  Markets  |  from sptimes.ru

There is a glut for natural gas in the US market as a result of many shale gas discoveries and their rapid development. Consequently, major volumes of LNG originally developed for the US market are being diverted to Europe and other parts of the world

• Date: 18.05.2010  |  Published on EGF: 18.05.2010  |  Energy  |  from pennenergy.com

Ahead of his visit to Kiev on Monday, May 17, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev gave an interview to the Ukrainian mass media. RT presents a full translation of the event.

• Date: 17.05.2010  |  Published on EGF: 17.05.2010  |  External Relations  |  from rt.com

Russian diplomacy has been on a roll in recent months, the revival of ties with Ukraine being the most dramatic manifestation. But a string of successes, major and minor, sung and unsung, has been notched up below that high point - in Poland, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Norway and Syria.

• Date: 14.05.2010  |  Published on EGF: 15.05.2010  |  Energy  |  from atimes.com

Moscow and Kiev will draw up by June a long-term contract on Russian deliveries of nuclear fuel to Ukraine, the head of the Russian presidential administration said Friday.

• Date: 14.05.2010  |  Published on EGF: 15.05.2010  |  Energy  |  from rian.ru

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has been in the headlines, first for describing his predecessor Joseph Stalin as a "totalitarian dictator" and then for making the first state visit to Syria by a Kremlin chief since the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.

• Date: 14.05.2010  |  Published on EGF: 14.05.2010  |  External Relations  |  from atimes.com