uk.reuters.com - 1/3/2009
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KIEV, July 16 (Reuters) - U.S. energy company Vanco said on Wednesday it had filed for international arbitration with Ukraine, after the government cancelled a 30-year licence to explore and extract oil and gas in the Black Sea shelf. Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has said Vanco broke ...
uk.reuters.com - 1/1/2009
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uk.reuters.com —
* Ukraine's gas to be cut at 0700
GMT on Thursday * Ukraine says it will maintain...
European supplies * Europe has stocks to ride out crisis - analysts By Vladimir Soldatkin and Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW/KIEV, Jan 1 (Reuters) - Russia was preparing to ...
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WRAPUP 1-Russia prepares to halt gas supplies to ...
ft.com - 1/7/2009
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ft.com —
A monolithic, Putin-led Kremlin using the “energy weapon”
to browbeat neighbouring Ukraine and beyond and threaten the...
rest of Europe with natural gas shortages: the image has become commonplace during the “gas spats” of the past few years. Yet those ...
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FT.com / Comment / Opinion - The battle of the oligarchs ...
faustasblog.com - 1/8/2009
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Via RWN, The day the sea froze: Temperature
plunges to MINUS 12C and forecasters say it won’t...
warm up until Sunday Temperatures plunged so low today that the sea actually began to freeze as Arctic conditions continued to grip the UK. In the ...
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Putin: Mr Freeze
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Russia - Ukraine Gas Dispute: Follow The Money
Newshoggers.com —
... Ukraine has also made little attempt to develop its own gas reserves, which are twice as large as the UK's. The depth of most of the significant reserves means considerable investment and advanced technology are required to recover them. But foreign investment has hardly been encouraged. Last May, Ukraine's cabinet announced it was pulling out of a contract with a US company for major deep-water oil and gas exploration. This decision seems to have been tied up in the complex web of business and political interests, made under the banner of keeping resources under ...
Russia - Ukraine Gas Dispute: Follow The Money
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... alleged involvement in dubious deals in the 1990s. She agreed with Putin in October to abolish deals through RosUkrEnergo, but this is yet to be implemented. Ukraine has also made little attempt to develop its own gas reserves, which are twice as large as the UK's. The depth of most of the significant reserves means considerable investment and advanced technology are required to recover them. But foreign investment has hardly been encouraged. Last May, Ukraine's cabinet announced it was pulling out of a contract with a US company for major deep-water oil and gas exploration. ...
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Russia stops all gas supply to Europe via Ukraine - Yahoo! News
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europe.theoildrum.com 1/3/2009 — The 2004 orange revolution put Ukraine on the map, as a new, spunky member of the "democratic world" against the axis of evil and other assorted dictatorships, a group that Russia was beginning to join in the White House view. Never mind that ...
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uk.reuters.com 1/6/2009 — * Gazprom says it has cut gas flows to Europe sharply * Gazprom says Ukraine blocked three gas pipelines * France says Russian gas supplies down 70 pct * Bulgaria: "We are in crisis situation" * Gas prices rise sharply in London (Updates with Czech ...
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michaeltotten.com 30 days ago — I have arrived in Ukraine, and I feel like I've slipped off the edge of Europe and into an alternate dimension.
I still have almost no time at all for writing or even photo editing, and for that I apologize. My schedule is absurdly demanding, and ...
warandpiece.com 2/7/2009 — Veep Pool report from Munich security conference by Politico 's David Cloud: Highlights of VP's address to the Munich Security Conference: As Biden walked on stage, the jam-packed hall broke into spontaneous applause. (Transcript of address to be ...
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