Ukraine is interested in having free markets at its eastern and western borders, the country's foreign affairs minister, Kostyantyn Gryshchenko, told EurActiv in an exclusive interview.
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Russia and Norway agreed to ease frontier controls and said they hoped for cooperation on oil and gas exploration after a deal earlier this year ended a four-decade dispute over Arctic seas.
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Although Russia has been campaigning to achieve visa free travel for its citizens within Europe, Russian authorities have recently taken measures to tighten visa requirements for tourists coming from EU countries.
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The European Parliament is scheduled to vote this week to introduce visa bans and asset seizures against those Russian state officials who played a role in the murder in custody of Sergei Magnitsky or who carried out the $230 million fraud Magnitsky uncovered.
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Officials from Russia and the European Commission marked the 10-year anniversary of EU-Russia energy dialogue and devised ways to overcome the present "lack of trust," as Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko described the state of relations.
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Russia and the European Union struck a deal on 24 November to phase out Russian export tariffs on raw materials, paving the way for Moscow to join the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
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Russia is the third largest market for fruits in the world in value terms and the number one market for pears. In 2010, fruit production in Russia is forecast to decrease 20 percent due to frost in the South and extraordinary heat and fires in the Central region of the country.
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Russian Institute of Regional Information and Laboratory of Mathematical Methods of Political Analysis and Prognosis of MSU Faculty of Political Science released the Index of Quality of Life in Russian regions in the 1st part of 2010.
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Russia plans to launch fiscal and regulatory reforms over the next year to ensure a lasting recovery from the global economic crisis, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin has said.
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The Amsterdam Court of Appeals has ruled that it would not recognize the 2007 sale of Yukos Finance BV, a Dutch corporation, by Russian court-appointed receiver Eduard Rebgun. As a result, $800 million in cash assets remains in limbo.
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Russia could join the World Trade Organization within a year, after talks on Moscow's 17-year-old bid made good progress, U.S. President Barack Obama's senior economic adviser said Wednesday.
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A United Russia-backed program to expand access to drinking water will get 9 billion rubles ($292 million) over the next three years, a significant decrease from the initially planned 20 billion to 40 billion rubles per year, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Wednesday.
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