- 15:43 19/02/2009
Ukraine's national energy company Naftogaz announced on Thursday it might face problems paying for natural gas supplied by Russia's Gazprom as debts of Ukrainian utility companies grow. 
- 15:36 19/02/2009
Ukraine's opposition party submitted a draft bill on Thursday demanding the foreign minister resign over threats to expel Russia's envoy, which strained relations with Moscow just weeks after a gas row.
- 15:06 19/02/2009
The Polish prime minister has invited the leaders of central and eastern EU states to discuss the region's economic challenges ahead of a March 1 EU-wide summit, European Voice said on Thursday.
- 14:30 19/02/2009
Somalia's new unity government will solve the problem of piracy by creating a maritime corridor through the country's territorial waters, the Somali ambassador to Russia said on Thursday.
- 13:57 19/02/2009
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is planning to hold a conference on the situation in Afghanistan in Moscow on March 27, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
- 13:31 19/02/2009
President Hugo Chavez is expected to sign into law on Thursday an amendment to Venezuela's constitution removing term limits for the head of state and other elected officials.
- 13:17 19/02/2009
- 12:49 19/02/2009
Kyrgyzstan's parliament voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to approve a presidential proposal to close a U.S. airbase used to support NATO operations in nearby Afghanistan since 2001.
- 12:49 19/02/2009
Kazakhstan plans to equip 10 battalions with S-300 air defense missile systems bought from Russia, with deliveries to begin in 2009, a senior military official said on Thursday.
- 12:49 19/02/2009
Beijing urged Russia on Thursday to conduct a thorough probe into the sinking of a Chinese cargo ship off Russia's Pacific Coast over the weekend, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said.
- 12:49 19/02/2009
Russian Navy experts and Irish environmentalists are to look into what caused a recent oil spill off Ireland, Russian Navy spokesman Capt. 1st Rank Igor Dygalo said on Thursday.
- 11:40 19/02/2009
A total of 25 rail cars loaded with high-quality Russian flour have already arrived in the Afghan city of Hairaton, an economic and trade advisor to the Russian Embassy in Afghanistan said on Thursday.
- 11:19 19/02/2009
The Russian embassy in North Korea said on Thursday it was attempting to resolve the situation around a Russian ship earlier seized by North Korean authorities.
- 10:50 19/02/2009
- 10:20 19/02/2009
NATO defense ministers begin on Thursday a two-day informal meeting in the Polish city of Krakow to discuss a number of urgent issues, including the situation in Afghanistan.
- 09:34 19/02/2009
The trial of the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at then-U.S. president George Bush in December is due to start in Baghdad on Thursday morning.
- 09:11 19/02/2009
A ferry collided with a cargo boat in southern Bangladesh on Thursday, killing at least one person with another 50 passengers still unaccounted for, national media said.
