Emerging-market stocks advanced on Thursday trading session rising for the second successive day as Ukraine and Russian ministers met their European and U.S. counterparts in order to talk about the crisis in Ukraine. The MSCI Emerging Markets Index gained as much as 0.5% to 1,007.02 as of 11:17 a.m. New York time as the Russian benchmark index Micex added 1.4% in the last two sessions.