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• U.S. Bid To Ban Fuel Shipments To North Korea Fails

  Published 20 July 2018 | viewed 8,605 times

  Russia and China are blocking a U.S. effort at the United Nations to halt all deliveries of refined oil products to North Korea amid charges…

• Iranian President: No One Will Benefit From U.S. Nuclear-Deal Exit

  Published 04 July 2018 | viewed 8,157 times

  During a visit to Vienna, Iranian President Hassan Rohani has reiterated that Tehran will remain in the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers as long…

• Russia And U.S. Meet To Discuss Sanctions, Energy

  Published 27 June 2018 | viewed 34,127 times

  Russian Energy Minister Aleksandr Novak has met with his U.S. counterpart Rick Perry and U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to discuss energy issues and U.S.…

• Iran Hints At Compromise To Raise Oil Output

  Published 20 June 2018 | viewed 9,204 times

  Iran has suggested it could be open to a compromise on a small rise in OPEC oil output after earlier rejecting a plan by Russia…

• Oil Giants Are Fleeing Iran On Sanction Fears

  Published 02 June 2018 | viewed 21,063 times

  The threat of U.S. sanctions has prompted Russian oil giant Lukoil to put its plans to develop projects in Iran on hold while the Indian…

• Putin Predicts West Will 'Tire' Of Sanctions Soon

  Published 10 February 2018 | viewed 10,378 times

  Putin spoke at a closed-door meeting of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, a prominent grouping of company chiefs and tycoons, on February 9.…

• Is Russia Helping North Korea Export Coal?

  Published 27 January 2018 | viewed 10,353 times

  North Korea has exported coal to Japan and South Korea via Russian ports in a probable violation of UN sanctions, Reuters is reporting. In its…

• Iraq To Begin Oil Deliveries To Iran

  Published 08 January 2018 | viewed 8,934 times

  Iraq's oil minister says the country will start exporting oil to Iran from its northern Kirkuk oil fields by the end of January. Oil Minister…

• Russia And Uzbekistan Sign Nuclear Energy Deal

  Published 30 December 2017 | viewed 13,043 times

  Russia's Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation and Uzbekistan have signed a nuclear-cooperation agreement that Rosatom says will pave the way for bilateral cooperation "in many…

• The Coal Miners That Refuse To Resurface

  Published 12 December 2017 | viewed 6,696 times

  SHAKHTINSK, Kazakhstan -- A strike by coal miners in north-central Kazakhstan has spread to more mines as hundreds of workers are refusing to return to…

• Putin Inaugurates $27 Billion LNG Arctic LNG Plant

  Published 09 December 2017 | viewed 12,607 times

  Russian President Vladimir Putin has inaugurated a $27 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant on the Yamal Peninsula above the Arctic Circle, part of a…

• Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Becomes Less Plausible

  Published 02 December 2017 | viewed 12,649 times

  A U.S. diplomat has dismissed the idea that the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline will ever be built. Speaking to European journalists in a telephone…

• U.S.-Russia Relations Strained Over North Korea Situation

  Published 26 October 2017 | viewed 4,834 times

  U.S. President Donald Trump has said that Russia is hindering U.S. efforts to rid North Korea of nuclear weapons, while China has been helpful. In…

• Rosneft Signs $400M Deal With Kurdistan

  Published 19 October 2017 | viewed 4,613 times

  Russian state-owned oil giant Rosneft says it has signed a production-sharing agreement with Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region worth up to $400 million. The October 18…

• EU Urges U.S. Congress To Protect Iran Nuclear Deal

  Published 16 October 2017 | viewed 4,340 times

  European Union foreign ministers have closed ranks in support of the Iran nuclear agreement, warning that U.S. President Donald Trump's threats to abandon the multinational…

• Russia, Morocco Sign String Of Energy And Military Deals

  Published 12 October 2017 | viewed 9,676 times

  Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev discussed supplying liquefied Russian natural gas to Morocco on a visit to Rabat on October 11 during which he signed…

• Turkmenistan To Spend $93-Billion On Oil And Gas Sector

  Published 10 October 2017 | viewed 15,877 times

  Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov has vowed to spend tens of billions of dollars to prop up the country’s oil-and-gas sector, which has been hurt by…

• Turkey To Meet With Iran, Iraq Over Kurdish Independence Vote

  Published 29 September 2017 | viewed 4,622 times

  Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on September 28 that he wants to hold a summit with Iranian and Iraqi leaders to coordinate their response…

• Russia Urges GCC To Resolve Qatar Dispute

  Published 11 September 2017 | viewed 4,651 times

  The Russian foreign minister has urged a coalition of Arab states led by Saudi Arabia to negotiate with Qatar to end a bitter diplomatic dispute…

• U.S. Set To Deliver Coal To Ukraine For The First Time

  Published 03 August 2017 | viewed 5,875 times

  The United States is set to begin delivering coal to Ukraine for the first time in a deal Washington framed as a move toward reducing…