Russian gas demands irk Belarus
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Russia and Belarus are no closer to resolving a dispute over demands that the latter pays more for gas imports.
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Russia's state environmental agency said it had launched a legal challenge to work at Sakhalin-2, a massive oil and gas project led by British group Shell, as efforts continued by state-owned Gazprom to obtain a stake in the project.
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Russia's Gazprom asks the government to cancel an agreement to pipe large quantities of gas to China.
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Russia and Belarus achieved compromise and settled the gas pricing problem, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a joint press conference with his Belarussian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko.
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Russia stepped up the pressure on Royal  Dutch Shell and its Japanese partners on Tuesday over a $20  billion oil and gas development in the Far East, sparking  protests from Tokyo and Brussels.
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A bitter row rages over gas giant Gazprom's plan to build a skyscraper in the historic centre of St Petersburg.
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BUDAPEST, Aug 28 (IPS) - Many European politicians look desperately for  alternatives to Russian gas, but while concerns over excessive  dependency on one source are legitimate, many have missed the  point that in the big energy game economic considerations weigh  more heavily than political ideology.
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Excerpt from report by Russian RBK TV on 5 September  [Presenter] Rosprirodnadzor [the Russian Federal Service for Regulation of the Use of Natural Resources] demands that the Sakhalin-2 project should be put on hold.
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New moves to pressure Ukraine on gas supplies could be driven by Moscow's political agenda, but they could also signal the Russian gas giant's own supply problems
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Anglo-Dutch energy giant Shell has allegedly accused the Russian government of concocting an environmental issue concern as an excuse to capture control of its multi-billion dollar Sakhalin gas project.
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Police clash with opposition activists, who protest against the nationwide referendum preliminary results in a square near the presidential administration, in Minsk, Belarus, Oct 18, 2004.
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Russian natural gas monopoly Gazprom (GAZPq.L) on Saturday filed an appeal in U.S. district court seeking to overturn a bankruptcy judge's order temporarily blocking the auction of oil giant YUKOS'  main production subsidiary.
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A Russian plan to re-route a significant amount of natural gas from a huge new field originally intended for the US market to Europe is a political move linked to deteriorating US-Russian relations, analysts have said.
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Belarus - named by the US as an 'outpost of tyranny' - is isolated but may not go the way of Ukraine, the BBC's Leonid Ragozin reports.
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The Russian government is demanding a total of $4.09 billion for 2001 from Yukos. Apart from the fines, more than $3 billion in back taxes are being docked from the oil giant&#39;s frozen accounts.
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Russia and Belarus are both interested in signing an intergovernmental agreement against bilateral trade limitations, Mikhail Fradkov, Russia s Prime Minister, said after a Council of Ministers session of the ...
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Russia's top industrial safety official on Wednesday blamed interference with a safety system for a methane explosion that killed 39 coal miners, saying gas gauges had been blocked &#151; possibly with rags &#151; in an apparent effort to keep work going and increase profits, a Russian news agency reported.