OAO Gazprom, the world’s biggest natural-gas producer, said an “abnormal” gap between spot fuel prices and long-term contracts is threatening investments in new fields and pipelines.

• Date: 16.04.2010  |  Published on EGF: 16.04.2010  |  Energy  |  from businessweek.com

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday that he and Barack Obama have "changed the atmosphere" in Russian-U.S. ties, but demanded more American support on issues from the economy to Afghan drugs.

• Date: 15.04.2010  |  Published on EGF: 15.04.2010  |  External Relations  |  from reuters.com

The presidents of the USA and Ukraine, Barack Obama and Viktor Yanukovich, discussed on Monday issues of energy security and cooperation in that sphere.

• Date: 15.04.2010  |  Published on EGF: 15.04.2010  |  External Relations  |  from itar-tass.com

Russia emerged from a decade of post-Soviet economic and political turmoil to reassert itself as a world power.

• Date: 15.04.2010  |  Published on EGF: 15.04.2010  |  Markets  |  from bbc.co.uk

To better understand the geopolitical dynamic of upheaval in the remote central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan, it is instructive to look to Georgia, 2500 kilometres and five national borders to the west.

• Date: 15.04.2010  |  Published on EGF: 15.04.2010  |  External Relations  |  from theage.com.au

On April 14-15, 2010 Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev will go to the Argentine Republic on an official visit. The main purpose of the visit is expanding of bilateral economic relations.

• Date: 14.04.2010  |  Published on EGF: 14.04.2010  |  External Relations  |  from itar-tass.com

Initiative to hold a global nuclear security summit in Washington "was absolutely timely" and the summit itself was "crowned with a complete success," Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday in a speech at the Brookings Institute on the results of the summit that had brought together the leaders of 47 countries, the UN, the International Atomic Energy Agency, and the European Union.

• Date: 14.04.2010  |  Published on EGF: 14.04.2010  |  Security  |  from itar-tass.com

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday launched the construction of a major gas pipeline aimed at winning market share in Europe while bypassing Ukraine, where strained relations have caused supply disruptions in the past.

• Date: 13.04.2010  |  Published on EGF: 10.04.2010  |  Energy  |  from commodities-now.com