The Ukrainian prime minister arrived in Moscow on Monday as Russia and Ukraine prepared to sign a deal ending a contentious dispute that cut off Russian natural gas shipments to Europe for nearly two weeks.
Yulia Tymoshenko and her Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, reached a preliminary agreement over the weekend to restore gas supplies to Europe [...]
Russia’s Gazprom state gas monopoly resumed pumping gas to Europe via Ukraine Tuesday after a six-day cutoff that left large parts of Europe cold and dark.
The company turned on the taps after 10 a.m. Moscow times (0700 GMT), Gazprom spokesman Boris Sapozhnikov said by telephone from Sudzha gas metering station on the border with Ukraine.
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Ukraine signed a deal Monday to allow independent monitors to track natural gas supplies from Russia to Europe, with no conditions, Russia’s gas giant Gazprom said.
The agreement, which Gazprom said was signed Monday morning during talks in Kiev, could open the way for a resumption of gas shipments to Europe through pipelines that cross Ukraine.
The [...]
The European Union says Gazprom is insisting that Russians be included in the monitoring mission overseeing Russian natural gas as it flows through Ukraine pipelines.
Moscow’s insistence to have Russians checking the gas flow through Ukraine goes against an agreement the EU had with Kiev to limit the group to EU observers alone.
Agreement on an observer [...]
More than 1,000 miles east of Moscow lies an endless landscape of stunted trees and snow.
It’s so isolated here in western Siberia, locals consider a three-day drive to be a short trip. Temperatures often reach minus 60 degrees Fahrenheit.
This land may be inhospitable, but it’s the source of much of Russia’s new wealth.
The Yamal-Nenets region [...]
