Turkmen Balkan freighter with capacity of 3.500 tons renovated in the Volga-Caspian shipyard in Astrakhan was returned to Turkmenbashi port, Neutral Turkmenistan newspaper said.

• Date: 02.02.2013  |  Published on EGF: 02.02.2013  |  External Relations  |  from oananews.org

If Moscow goes to the Stockholm court to settle its $7-billion claim to Ukraine for the gas Kyiv failed to buy under the existing contract, Ukraine may set up a counter-claim for the gas Moscow failed to pump via Ukraine, Mykhailo Honchar, energy expert , and Maksim Alinov, legal expert

• Date: 02.02.2013  |  Published on EGF: 02.02.2013  |  Energy  |  from zik.ua

Gazprom (GAZP) sent Ukraine’s state-run energy company a $7 billion bill for failing to import agreed natural-gas volumes last year, in an echo of a conflict that twice disrupted shipments to European customers in recent years.

• Date: 28.01.2013  |  Published on EGF: 28.01.2013  |  Energy  |  from businessweek.com

The U.N. nuclear watchdog signaled on Friday it would keep trying to secure Iran's cooperation with a long-stalled investigation, but a senior Iranian lawmaker suggested Tehran would only cooperate if it won sanctions relief in return.

• Date: 26.01.2013  |  Published on EGF: 26.01.2013  |  External Relations  |  from news.yahoo.com

Russia has repeatedly pledged to boost strategic security cooperation with China. In the past, both sides preferred only to make verbal statements on the matter. But now Moscow and Beijing appeared to pledge actual joint action in connection with issues of strategic security, including the United States’ missile defense plans in Asia.

• Date: 26.01.2013  |  Published on EGF: 26.01.2013  |  External Relations  |  from jamestown.org

The proposed price for the construction of two 1000 MW units of what was supposed to become Bulgaria's second nuclear power plant, Belene, was EUR 6.3 B, not EUR 10 B, as Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov claims, Russian state company Rosatom stated on Tuesday.

• Date: 23.01.2013  |  Published on EGF: 23.01.2013  |  Energy  |  from novinite.com

Georgia’s NATO integration may appear under doubt, President Mikheil Saakashvili said in his speech at the winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

• Date: 22.01.2013  |  Published on EGF: 22.01.2013  |  External Relations  |  from news.az

Ukraine continues to import European natural gas via Poland as it seeks to break the stranglehold of Russian supplies, Kiev's energy minister says

• Date: 21.01.2013  |  Published on EGF: 21.01.2013  |  Energy  |  from upi.com