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Analyses | | Wojciech Konończuk

Gas as an instrument of Russian pressure on Ukraine

On 26 January the Financial Times, citing a source in the Ukrainian government, reported that  Gazprom had issued a bill for US$7 billion to Naftogaz for the purchase in 2012 of a smaller amount of gas than that agreed in their 2009…
Analyses | | Arkadiusz Sarna

Ukraines agreement with Shell on shale gas extraction

On 24 January in Davos, the Ukrainian Minister of Energy, Eduard Stavitsky, and the director of the Dutch-British company Shell, Peter Vozer, signed a 50-year Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) concerning a project for the production of…
Analyses | | Tadeusz A Olszański

Yulia Tymoshenko charged with ordering assassination

On 18 January, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine charged Yulia Tymoshenko with the theft of property from the company she herself ran, the United Energy Systems of Ukraine (UESU), and with complicity in the 1996 murder of Yevhen Shcherban…
Analyses | | Tadeusz A Olszański

Ukraines new government compromise between the main Donetsk groups

On 24 December, President Viktor Yanukovych appointed a new government headed by Mykola Azarov. The government’s composition is the result of a compromise between the two main groups of oligarchs: the 'family', linked to the president's…