Ukraine aims to increase the production of its own natural resources by exploring alternative resources and expanding coal production, the president said.

• Date: 24.01.2012  |  Published on EGF: 24.01.2012  |  Energy  |  from upi.com

Countries without natural borders are like amoebas. Over centuries, they expand and contract, expand and contract.As the Western world wonders why Russia has such a nuanced policy toward Iran’s nuclear program, it is important to skip back over four centuries of history.

• Date: 24.01.2012  |  Published on EGF: 24.01.2012  |  External Relations  |  from payvand.com

After a three-sided meeting with the Russian President, the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan announced that they were ready to speed up the talks on the Karabakh problem – part of the strife that has lingered since the breakup of the Soviet Union.

• Date: 23.01.2012  |  Published on EGF: 23.01.2012  |  External Relations  |  from rt.com/politics

Russia has condemned a decision by the European Union (EU) to impose tougher sanctions against Iran, warning such measures will only make things worse with regards to Tehran’s nascent nuclear program and undermine the diplomatic process.

• Date: 23.01.2012  |  Published on EGF: 23.01.2012  |  Energy  |  from ibtimes.com

The decision by European Union foreign ministers to stop taking deliveries of crude oil from Iran might well represent a momentous change and a blow to Tehran.

• Date: 23.01.2012  |  Published on EGF: 23.01.2012  |  Energy  |  from rferl.org

U.S. Ambassador to the OSCE Ian Kelly on behalf of his government is insisting on permitting independent doctors to examine the state of health of ex-premier Yulia Tymoshenko, who is now in the Kachanovska prison, the press service of the Batkivschyna party said on Saturday.

• Date: 21.01.2012  |  Published on EGF: 21.01.2012  |  Energy  |  from kyivpost.com

Iran is being paid for oil sales to India through a Turkish bank, the managing director of the National Iranian Oil Company said Friday on Mehr news agency.

• Date: 21.01.2012  |  Published on EGF: 21.01.2012  |  Energy  |  from nowlebanon.com

China's premier, Wen Jiabao, was in the Persian Gulf this week talking about oil.
China has become increasingly concerned about all the threats of conflict with Iran in the Persian Gulf, which supplies China with a great deal of its oil.

• Date: 21.01.2012  |  Published on EGF: 21.01.2012  |  Energy  |  from npr.org