Bosnian worker cuts wood at the northern entrance to Sarajevo on Jan. 7. Small entrepreneurs have started selling wood and coal after deliveries of Russian natural gas to Bosnia were stopped on Tuesday evening.
Russia shut off all gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine on Wednesday — leaving tens of thousands of people in more than a dozen countries without heat during a winter cold snap. The EU accused both nations of holding consumers hostage in their contract disputeFull Story Today, 16:39 | Associated Press
KIEV, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Russia has shown in its gas price row with Ukraine that it has learnt some lessons in how to handle the media since being widely portrayed as the aggressor during a similar dispute in 2006Full Story Today, 18:24 | Reuters
LONDON, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Nuclear power may be the winner from a shutdown of Russian gas exports that has highlighted Europe's vulnerability and limited energy options.Full Story Today, 17:20 | Reuters
SOFIA/SARAJEVO, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Thousands of Bulgarians, Bosnians and Serbs were left in the cold and some companies and schools did not operate on Wednesday after Russian gas supplies were halted to southeastern EuropeFull Story Today, 16:15 | Reuters
PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) -- The European Union said Wednesday that Russia and Ukraine were taking the EU hostage to settle their gas dispute and demanded immediate resumption of supplies.Full Story Today, 15:33 | Associated Press
Warsaw, January 7 (Interfax Central Europe) - Poland is investing in gas pipelines that will link its gas system with Germany and the Czech Republic in order to be able to receive natural gas from Norway, said Joanna Zakrzewska, spokeswoman for Polish gas monopolist PGNiG.Full Story Today, 15:18 | Reuters
Moscow, January 7 (Interfax) - Gazprom has made an official statement saying that gas shipments to European consumers have been halted through the fault of Ukraine, and urged the Ukrainian side to urgently compensate the gas undersupplied to consumers.Full Story Today, 15:17 | Interfax-Ukraine
Moscow, January 7 (Interfax) - A halt in gas shipments to European consumers across Ukraine could lead to serious failures in the gas transportation system, Gazprom Deputy CEO Alexander Medvedev said.Full Story Today, 15:14 | Reuters
Gas pumping from the Ukrainian gas storage facilities grew to 208.1 million cubic meters (cbm) as of early morning January 7 compared to 128.4 million cubic meters per day as of morning January 1.Full Story Today, 13:32 | Interfax-Ukraine
LONDON/BERLIN, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Germany posted its first rise in unemployment in almost three years on Wednesday, a day after the global economic downturn forced U.S. aluminium giant Alcoa to announce 15,000 job cuts and slash output.Full Story Today, 13:25 | Reuters
Warsaw, January 7 (Interfax Central Europe) - Russia may use the gas crisis with Ukraine to support arguments for the construction of the Nord Stream pipeline, which may be convincing for those European Union states that fear the disruptions of gas deliveries through transit countries, said Bronislaw Komorowski, speaker of the Sejm, lower house of Parliament.Full Story Today, 12:53 | Interfax-UkraineArchive
Bosnian worker cuts wood at the northern entrance to Sarajevo on Jan. 7. Small entrepreneurs have started selling wood and coal after deliveries of Russian natural gas to Bosnia were stopped on Tuesday evening.
