Graham Stack in Kyiv
Mon, 8th Feb -- With most votes counted, Party of the Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych had edged out Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in Ukraine's presidential election by less than 3% of the vote, thus winning the rematch of the Orange Revolution of 2004 where he played the role of villain.

Guy Norton in London
Thu, 4th Feb -- In its latest agribusiness-related transaction, the EBRD is lending €6.5m to Bulgarian meat company Boni Holding to help it complete the second stage of its plant modernisation programme.

Clare Nuttall in Almaty
Thu, 4th Feb -- The relegation of all but one Kazakhstan-registered airline to the EU's air safety blacklist was a blow to national pride as well as a setback for the air transport sector. The government is now working to have Kazakh airlines removed from the list by the end of this year.

Guy Norton in London
Tue, 2nd Feb -- The two rival stock market operators in Montenegro have finally seen the light of day and approved a merger that it's hoped will help to increase the credibility of the country's fledgling capital markets scene.

Jaroslaw Adamowski in Warsaw
Tue, 2nd Feb -- While Germany is busy phasing-out its nuclear power plants in order to meet obligations made back in 2000 and Lithuania reluctantly shuts down its Ignalina nuclear plant due to its pre-accession pledge to the EU, Poland has been moving in quite a different direction.

Mike Collier in Riga
Fri, 5th Feb -- Latvians are nothing if not generous, as anyone who has been to the midsummer Jani festival will attest. But in midwinter it seems they are equally generous if the "Baltic States Infrastructure & New Energy Investment & Finance Summit 2010" is anything to go by.

Tim Gosling in Moscow
Fri, 5th Feb -- Some international grocery chains have pulled out of Russia, but others are thriving. The size and early development of Russia is what makes the prize so tempting.

Samantha Shields in Sukhumi
Wed, 3rd Feb -- The small, but strategic, Black Sea region of Abkhazia, whose economy was devastated by a bitter war in the early 1990s, is hoping Russia's recognition of its declaration of independence after 2008's war between Russia and Georgia will start it on the long road to recovery and pique the interest of investors.

Ian Bancroft in Belgrade
Mon, 1st Feb -- Bosnia-Herzegovina ended a dismal 2009 fearing the dawn of a new decade. Rightly so. 2010 promises to be Bosnia's most challenging since the country emerged from the Balkan wars in the mid-1990s.

Ben Aris in Moscow
Wed, 27th Jan -- Cold War tensions between Europe and Russia will persist as long as the energy infrastructure from that era remains in place. But in the last few months, construction has started or finished on a raft of new pipelines that have already radically changed the make-up of energy politics on the Eurasian land mass.