UK PM Cameron warns Russia of sanctions ahead of G20 Over the past few days we have seen the situation in Ukraine begin to escalate once...

Update 11.50 30/10/14: Reuters is reporting that an EU spokesperson has said a deal is "very close" and talks will continue to...

Arkady Rotenberg and Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin We’ve discussed the economic and political challenges which the sanctions on Russia have ...

In our continuing effort to bring increased transparency to the murky issue of sanctions we’ve compiled some initial thoughts on the likely...

The EU last night finally reached an agreement on the latest round of sanctions on Russia, although the members agreed to delay implementat...

Given the recent escalation in Eastern Ukraine and the increasingly obvious Russian influence in the rebel forces, the EU looks set to impos...

EU leaders have all arrived in Brussels for today's summit. There are two big issues on the table: the appointments of the next European...

An  Infratest Dimap poll for  Welt/ARD   published today showed that 70%  of Germans are in favour of the EU's response to the crisis, w...

Russia earlier unveiled the key plank of its retaliation against the ‘stage three’ EU sanctions confirmed last week. It has said that it w...

Over the weekend we published a new flash analysis looking primarily at the impact of the financial sanctions on Russia and what action Rus...

As we noted in our previous blog on the potential 'Stage 3' of EU sanctions on Russia, the options considered by the European Commi...

France's Mistral warships seem to be off the table As Greek daily To Vima and the FT have been reporting, there is a draft going a...

(l-r) The foreign ministers of Italy, Spain and France EU foreign ministers will meet tomorrow to discuss what to do with Russia in ligh...

We’ve been overdue an update on the situation in Ukraine. Over the past few weeks, as anyone following the news will have seen, the situat...

As has long been feared, negotiations between Russia, Ukraine and the EU over Russian gas supplies to Ukraine have ground to a halt . Desp...

News just out is that Russia and China have finally signed a gas deal, the negotiations of which have been going-on for a decade. (As the...

As we laid out in our Divided We Stand briefing, agreement among the EU 28 on how to respond to Russia's role in the Ukraine crisis i...