- 18:32 25/07/2010
Russia proposed Ukraine to conduct joint Russian and Ukrainian naval drills more often, Russian Navy Commander Admiral Vladimir Vysotsky said.
- 17:46 25/07/2010
Three patrol boats of a new project and three submarines of 636 project will be laid up at Russian shipyards for the Black Sea Fleet before the end of 2010, Russian Navy Commander Admiral Vladimir Vysotsky said.
- 15:00 08/07/2010
Vice Adm. Vladimir Korolyov has been appointed the new commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, a fleet staff officer said on Thursday.
- 14:25 31/05/2010
The first group of officers from Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) have resumed operations at Russia's Black Sea Fleet naval base in the Ukrainian port of Sevastopol, a city administration source said on Monday
- 18:37 13/05/2010
Most Russians believe that the extension of the lease on the Russian naval base in Crimea is more important than maintaining market gas prices for Ukraine, a poll said on Thursday.
- 08:48 12/05/2010
Russian security service personnel may return to Ukraine's Crimea in the near future as part of a reset in relations between the two former Soviet republics, a business daily said on Wednesday.
- 15:08 09/05/2010
Russia is planning to focus on the development of social and military infrastructure in the port of Sevastopol on the Crimean Peninsula, the Russian ambassador to Ukraine said on Sunday.
- 16:39 05/05/2010
The ratification of the Russian-Ukrainian agreement allowing the Black Sea Fleet to remain in Sevastopol until 2042 has again raised the issue of modernizing the fleet, the cost of such an upgrade, and Russia's ability to implement it.
- 17:01 01/05/2010
Russian President Dimitry Medvedev instructed the Russian Defense Minister to prepare a plan within the next month for the development of the Russian Black Sea Fleet base in Ukraine's Sevastopol
- 09:32 01/05/2010
The Russian ambassador to Kiev has dismissed the chances of Ukraine backing out of the deal on Russia's lease of a Crimean naval base, saying such a step would convert some funds received by Ukraine into state debt.
- 00:53 30/04/2010
An opposition lawmaker has requested the Ukrainian Prosecutor General to launch a criminal case against President Viktor Yanukovych's son, who allegedly attacked him during the recent brawl in the country's parliament.
- 19:47 29/04/2010
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed on Thursday a law on the ratification of a Black Sea Fleet agreement with Ukraine, the Kremlin said.
- 18:53 29/04/2010
Ukrainian deputies will be forced to pay compensation for damage caused during a rowdy parliamentary debate on the ratification of a Russian-Ukrainian naval base deal, Parliamentary Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn said on Thursday.
- 16:47 29/04/2010
The recent deal extending Russia's use of a naval base in Crimea will not harm the development of Ukraine-U.S. relations, Ukrainian Parliament Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn said on Thursday.
- 15:48 29/04/2010
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych on Thursday defended the Russian Navy base deal extending Russian naval presence in the country until 2042, saying the naval base deal is a small price for establishing better Russia-Ukraine ties.
- 12:18 29/04/2010
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has signed into law the deal extending the use of the Russian naval base in Crimea, deputy head of the presidential administration Anna German said on Thursday.
- 14:33 28/04/2010
The deal to extend Russia's use of a naval base in Crimea opens a new page in mutually beneficial cooperation between Kiev and Moscow and leaves behind an era of hostility
- 13:04 28/04/2010
Russia and Ukraine are ready to move ahead with a new stage in long-term cooperation
- 10:39 28/04/2010
The upper chamber of the Russian parliament, the Federation Council, ratified on Wednesday a deal with Ukraine to extend the lease on a Russian naval base
- 20:36 27/04/2010
Russian and Ukrainian parliaments ratified on Tuesday a deal extending the lease on a Russian naval base in the Ukrainian port of Sevastopol for 25 years.
- 19:52 27/04/2010
While deputies debated the ratification of the extension of the lease in parliament, opposition members tried to break through the police cordon.
- 19:50 27/04/2010
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovych congratulated each other on the simultaneous ratification of a Russian naval base deal on Tuesday, the Kremlin's press service reported.
- 17:20 27/04/2010
The Ukrainian parliament has ratified a deal extending the lease for a Russian Navy base in Crimea, despite brawls in the chamber and clashes outside parliament.
- 16:01 27/04/2010
The rent Russia pays for a newly extended lease on its Black Sea base in Ukraine is high but not overpriced, the Russian President said.
- 15:20 27/04/2010
Russia will seek Ukraine's opinion on any moves to modernize its navy in Crimea, Russian Navy chief Vladimir Vysotsky said on Tuesday
- 14:58 27/04/2010
Opposition lawmakers in Ukraine threw eggs and set off a smoke bomb during a chaotic parliamentary vote Tuesday on extending Russia's lease of a Crimean naval port for the Black Sea Fleet.
- 14:15 27/04/2010
The former Ukrainian president and prime minister have expressed anger over the ratification on Tuesday of a naval base agreement with Russia
- 13:43 27/04/2010
Ukraine has little chance to renege on a Russian naval base deal as its refusal to honor the treaty would be a breach of international law, Russian First Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Denisov said on Tuesday
- 12:14 27/04/2010
The Russian State Duma has ratified an agreement extending Russia's lease on a naval base in Crimea for 25 years after the current deal expires in 2017
- 12:04 27/04/2010
The Ukrainian parliament has ratified the naval base deal with Russia amid brawls in the chamber and clashes outside parliament, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported on Tuesday
- 11:40 27/04/2010
- 10:24 27/04/2010
The Ukrainian opposition is threatening to disrupt the Ukrainian parliament's ratification on Tuesday of a controversial deal to extend Russia's lease of a naval base in Ukraine
- 02:40 27/04/2010
The price for the lease of the Russian Black Sea Fleet's naval base in Ukraine is overvalued, but Moscow agreed to it for the benefit of raising cooperation and trust with Kiev, the Russian prime minister said.
- 20:31 26/04/2010
The Ukrainian parliament committee for international affairs on Monday recommended the Supreme Rada against ratifying a new deal extending Russia's use of a naval base in Crimea
- 18:44 26/04/2010
The Ukrainian parliament committee for international affairs on Monday recommended against ratifying a new deal extending Russia's use of a naval base in Crimea
- 15:26 26/04/2010
Ukraine's opposition has warned against the ratification by the parliament of a deal extending Russia's use of a naval base in Crimea, with lawmakers due to consider the agreement on Tuesday.
- 11:59 26/04/2010
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin flies into Kiev as the Ukrainian parliament's prepares to consider ratifying the deal on Russia's naval base in Crimea in a vote of no little importance to Moscow.
- 18:18 23/04/2010
Russia’s Black Sea Fleet will be stationed in Crimea for another 25 years. Russia has the option to extend the lease by an additional five years.
- 17:33 23/04/2010
Protracted talks between Moscow and Kiev on Russian gas prices for Ukraine have produced some unexpected results. Ukraine has received a substantial 30% discount on the gas prices stipulated by the January 19, 2009 contract.
- 17:17 23/04/2010
The deal extending Russia's use of a naval base in Ukraine's Crimea is economically beneficial for both Moscow and Kiev, the Russian ambassador to Ukraine said on Friday.
- 11:28 23/04/2010
The Ukrainian opposition will not be able to hamper the ratification of a deal between Moscow and Kiev on extending Russia's use of a naval base in Ukraine's Crimea, Russian daily Kommersant said
- 10:57 23/04/2010
The Russian lower house of parliament, the State Duma, has approved an additional plenary session on April 27 to ratify an agreement on prolonging the presence of the country's Black Sea Fleet in Ukraine's Crimea for another 25 years
- 21:21 22/04/2010
The extension of Russia's lease on its Black Sea Fleet base in Ukraine will not affect NATO's relations with Moscow and Kiev, Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Thursday.
- 20:37 22/04/2010
The deal between Moscow and Kiev on extending Russia's use of the Sevastopol naval base in Crimea amounts to "military occupation," former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said on Thursday.
- 18:32 22/04/2010
Ukraine's Constitutional Court has ruled that the extension of Russia's lease on a naval base in Crimea conforms to the country's Constitution, Foreign Minister Kostyantyn Hryshchenko said on Thursday.
- 17:30 22/04/2010
Russia has no plans to build new military facilities anywhere in the world similar to its naval base in Ukraine's Crimea, the Russian prime minister said on Thursday.
- 16:39 22/04/2010
Russia will pay higher rent for its naval base in Ukraine starting in 2017 and payments will be made in hard cash, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.
- 16:34 22/04/2010
Russia has no plans to build new military facilities anywhere in the world similar to its naval base in Ukraine's Crimea, the Russian premier said on Thursday.
- 15:08 22/04/2010
Ukraine's Constitutional Court has ruled the prolongation of a lease on Russia's naval base in the Crimea conforms to the country's Constitution, Foreign Minister Kostyantyn Hryshchenko said on Thursday.
- 11:27 22/04/2010
The lower house of the Russian parliament, the State Duma, will hold on April 27 an additional plenary session on the ratification of a Russian-Ukrainian naval base deal, the head of the State Duma's foreign affairs committee said on Thursday.
- 10:13 22/04/2010
Ukraine agreed Wednesday to extend the lease of Russia's Black Sea Fleet base in return for sharply lower natural-gas prices, a long-term trade-off that reasserts much of Moscow's influence over its former Soviet neighbor after years of tension.
- 21:36 21/04/2010
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych should be impeached for signing an agreement extending Russian naval presence in the Crimea for 25 years after 2017, because it contradicts the Ukrainian Constitution, a statement by pro-western Ukrainian Viktor Yushchenko's party said on Wednesday.
- 20:57 21/04/2010
An agreement on the extension of the Russian Black Sea Fleet presence in Ukraine after 2017 might be simultaneously ratified by the Russian and Ukrainian parliaments next Tuesday, a Russian parliamentary speaker said.
- 18:06 21/04/2010
Russia and Ukraine on Wednesday signed an agreement extending Russian naval presence in the Crimea for 25 years after 2017, when the current lease is due to expire.
- 17:00 21/04/2010
Ukraine has agreed to extend the term of Russian Black Sea Fleet presence in the country's Crimea for 25 more years, the Russian president said on Wednesday.
- 16:36 21/04/2010
Russia and Ukraine on Wednesday signed an agreement extending the Russian naval presence in the Crimea after 2017.
- 20:32 13/04/2010
Russia's Black Sea Fleet will receive up to four frigates and four diesel-electric submarines in the next five years, a Navy source told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.
- 03:31 03/04/2010
The majority of warships in the Russian Black Sea Fleet have been in service for over 30 years and would not be fit for sea missions by 2015.
- 00:40 21/03/2010
Russia and Ukraine could agree on the extension of the Black Sea Fleet's presence in the Crimea while Viktor Yanukovich serves his first term as Ukrainian president.
- 15:51 05/03/2010
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday that Moscow and Kiev would continue discussions on the future of Russia's Black Sea Fleet base on the Crimean Peninsula.
- 12:48 12/05/2008
The parade featuring 30 warships, 10 auxiliary and support vessels, and a naval infantry took place in Sevastopol on May 11 on the occasion of the 225th anniversary of the Russian Black Sea Fleet
- 10:21 29/06/2006
Russia's Black Sea Fleet uses a range of naval facilities in Ukraine's largely Russian-speaking Crimea region under a 1997 agreement that allows Russia to stay in the neighboring former Soviet republic.
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