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On 31 January, the board of the Russian firm TNK-BP decided to halt production in its refinery in Lysychansk, the second largest in Ukraine. Lukoil took the same step with its refinery in Odessa last autumn. The decision by TNK-BP…
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On 27 January in Davos, the Russian oil company Rosneft and the American firm ExxonMobil signed an agreement on the joint use and exploitation of energy deposits on the Russian shelf of the Black Sea. This is the second contract Rosneft…
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On 1 February, Ukraine’s parliament adopted a amendments to the constitution, finally fixing the terms of office for the president, parliament and local government authorities at five years. This means that the next parliamentary elections…
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After the first meeting on 27 January between the prime minister Vladimir Filat of the ruling Alliance for European Integration (AIE) and the Communist Party representatives on electing a president, it has become clear that hope of their…
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On 28 January, President Dmitri Medvedev signed a law ratifying the new Russian-American START Treaty on the reduction of strategic nuclear arms. The Act contains recommendations for Russian policy in the field of nuclear armaments, and…
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During a meeting at the European Policy Centre think tank in Brussels, the EU Commissioner for Energy Günther Oettinger questioned the EU's policies towards Ukraine by saying, "There is no point in modernising the Ukrainian gas system if…
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| Marta Szpala
The clashes in Tirana are the culmination of the dispute between the ruling Democratic Party (PDSh) and the opposition party PSSh that has been ongoing since June 2009. Without the direct involvement of the international community,…
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On 25 January the Greek minister for investment Harris Pamboukis wrote a letter to the management of the Greek subsidiary of Siemens that demanded damages for obtaining contracts from Greek state-owned companies through bribes. The German…
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The Hungarian government received a letter from the president of the European Commission that included a question about Hungary's media package which came into force at the turn of 2010 and 2011. As the letter states, the EC has serious…
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The German Federation of Expellees (BdV) blocked the opening of the exhibition on expulsions organised by the radical NPD party. The exhibition that was to be opened to viewers on 22 January in Bernburg (Saxony-Anhalt) included materials…