- 21:49 16/01/2009
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko is ready to consider proposals of European companies on overcoming the current gas transit crisis, his press service said on Friday. 
- 21:46 16/01/2009
Russia and its European customers are close to a solution to the natural gas transit dispute that led to a cutoff of supplies to the EU via Ukraine, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Friday.
- 21:45 16/01/2009
- 20:27 16/01/2009
Lawyers for energy giant Gazprom will complete filing a lawsuit on Friday with the Stockholm Arbitration Court in regard to its gas transit dispute with Ukraine, a Russian deputy prime minister said.
- 19:25 16/01/2009
Palestinian militants on Friday have renewed firing rockets and mortars into the southern region of Israel, injuring five civilians, the Israeli army press services said.
- 19:10 16/01/2009
Thirteen people were injured in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius on Friday during a protest against the government's anti-financial crisis policies, national media said.
- 18:29 16/01/2009
- 18:08 16/01/2009
Syrian-based Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal rejected on Friday Israel's conditions for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip at the opening of a summit for Arab and Muslim nations in Qatar's capital, Doha.
- 18:04 16/01/2009
A spokesman for the Russian Navy denied on Friday media rumors about the possible establishment of Russian naval facilities in several countries in the Mediterranean.
- 17:45 16/01/2009
Germany's E.ON and France's GDF Suez have agreed to enter a consortium for the provision of technical gas to Ukraine, a senior Gazprom official said on Friday.
- 17:15 16/01/2009
The European Commission said on Friday that the EU could review ties with Russia and Ukraine if they failed to promptly resolve their gas dispute, which has led to a cutoff in supplies to Europe.
- 16:17 16/01/2009
Extensive Israeli airstrikes and ground operations in the Gaza Strip have caused $1.4 billion worth of damage to the enclave's economy, the Palestinian National Authority said on Friday.
- 16:09 16/01/2009
Russia believes it is too early to name any countries where its Navy would like to deploy "basing points," the deputy chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces said on Friday.
- 16:05 16/01/2009
- 15:54 16/01/2009
Some 7,000 people took part in a protest against government anti-crisis policies in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius on Friday, national media said.
- 15:46 16/01/2009
Russia is ready to hold a Middle East conference in Moscow, but its agenda needs to take into account the latest events in Gaza, the Russian president said Friday.
- 15:24 16/01/2009
Russia will complete later in January its fuel shipments to North Korea under international agreements, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday.
- 15:15 16/01/2009
Moscow is hoping that U.S. President-elect Barack Obama will review Russia's proposal for a collective Russian-American-European missile defense network, the Russian foreign minister said on Friday.
- 15:09 16/01/2009
Ukraine has increased domestic natural gas output in the absence of Russian supplies, the CEO of national energy company Naftogaz said on Friday.
