Ivan Plachkov

COMM Ukraine’s Minister of Fuel and Energy Ivan Plachkov at a press conference of the head of Russian Federal Nuclear Power Agency “Rosatom” Sergey Kiriyenko and acting Ukraine’s Prime Minister Yury Yekhanurov in Kiev, Saturday, January 21, 2006. The negotiations concerned collaboration of the two countries in nuclear power field. Expected signing of all contracts concerning the gas agreement between Russia and Ukraine, transit conditions and gas deliveries, as well as creation of a joint enterprise of Ukraine’s Naftogaz and “RosUkrEnergo” were postponed till Wednesday. Photo by Alexander Sinitsa / UNIAN