Russia may limit food transit from Belarus and Ukraine to Kazakhstan because of attempts by the countries to supply banned food to Russia, the head of Russia’s veterinary and phytosanitary service (VPSS) was quoted as saying on Thursday. In early August, Russia banned imports of fruit, vegetables,

(Reuters) — Ukraine and Russia begin new gas crisis talks on Wednesday, but wrangling over Ukraine’s upfront cash payments threatens to push a deal out of reach, even as temperatures have fallen below zero in Kiev. Russian state utility Gazprom halted supplies to Kiev in June because of Ukraine’s

Ukraine’s largest steelmaker, Metinvest, has offered holders of its $500 million bond which was due to mature in May 2015 a longer-term bond to November 2017 with an increased interest rate of 10.5 percent per annum. The steelmaker, which expects its results to be hurt in the second half after a

U.S. and EU economic sanctions on Russia plus a fall in the price of oil have increased incentives for Moscow to resolve the dispute. State-controlled Gazprom earns around $6 billion a month selling gas to the EU. «Without a doubt, sanction regimes put on Russia by the U.S. and the EU have already

Reuters — A tentative agreement between the Ukrainian and Russian presidents has raised hopes of ending a dispute in which Moscow has halted natural gas supplies to Kiev, but several obstacles still have be overcome. Movement on the gas row was the only sign of progress at talks between Vladimir