EU, Ukraine And Russia Continue Negotiations Over Natural Gas Shipments

BERLIN, GERMANY - SEPTEMBER 26: Ukrainian Energy Minister Yuriy Prodan departs after speaking at a press conference following talks with Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak and European Union Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger over the future of Russian natural gas deliveries to Ukraine on September 26, 2014 in Berlin, Germany. The three parties seemed to have made progress in today's talks on setting prices for future gas deliveries to Ukraine and other aspects of the disagreements, though negotiations are set to continue. Gazprom, the Russian company that supplies Ukraine with much of its natural gas, raised prices dramatically following the ouster of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich earlier this year, and since then the two nations have been in a bitter dispute over the deliveries that have been antagonized by Russian support for pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)