Turkey's prime minister dismissed on Monday any suggestion Ankara should apologize for downing a Russian warplane in its airspace last week, after winning strong NATO support for the right to defend itself.

• Date: 30.11.2015  |  Published on EGF: 30.11.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree imposing economic sanctions against Turkey on Saturday, four days after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane near the Syrian-Turkish border.

• Date: 28.11.2015  |  Published on EGF: 28.11.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

President Vladimir Putin signed a decree imposing a raft of punitive economic sanctions against Turkey on Saturday, underlining the depth of the Kremlin's anger toward Ankara four days after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane.

• Date: 28.11.2015  |  Published on EGF: 28.11.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Five days after saboteurs blew up power lines in southern Ukraine plunging Russian-annexed Crimea into an energy crisis, all four damaged pylons are out of action and engineers say they need a political decision to restore supplies.

• Date: 27.11.2015  |  Published on EGF: 27.11.2015  |  Energy  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Gazprom's deputy chief executive is expected to meet EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager next month in a meeting that could determine the outcome of the EU's case against the Russian gas giant, a person familiar with the matter said on Friday.

• Date: 27.11.2015  |  Published on EGF: 27.11.2015  |  Energy  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan warned Russia on Friday not to "play with fire", citing reports Turkish businessmen had been detained in Russia, while Moscow said it would suspend visa-free travel with Turkey.

• Date: 27.11.2015  |  Published on EGF: 27.11.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Power blackouts in Crimea orchestrated by anti-Russian saboteurs are stirring discontent a year and a half after Moscow seized the peninsula from Ukraine, threatening to chip away at the pro-Kremlin euphoria many Crimeans felt after annexation.

• Date: 26.11.2015  |  Published on EGF: 26.11.2015  |  Energy  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk says his country has imposed a ban on transit flights over Ukraine for all Russian airlines.

• Date: 25.11.2015  |  Published on EGF: 25.11.2015  |  Energy  |  from http://www.rferl.org/