Opening up Estonian electricity market to large consumers benefits the Estonian economy more than it harms individual companies, Estonian economy and communications minister Juhan Parts said in national television ETV’s morning programme on Wednesday.

• March 31, 2010

When two bombs ripped through Moscow subway stations at rush hour on Monday morning, Russia’s leaders reached for the kind of hunt-them-down-and-kill-them statements that propelled the country through two brutal wars in the Caucasus.

• March 31, 2010

Oil prices have done something remarkable over the last half-year or so: they have barely budged.

• March 31, 2010

The email accounts of foreign journalists based in China have been hacked, according to reports.

• March 31, 2010

Eight of the nine Baltic Sea countries are members of the EU and more than 100 million people live in the region.

• March 31, 2010

Russia signs a deal with the UN's nuclear watchdog, IAEA, to set up the world's first nuclear fuel bank of low-enriched uranium for countries that need fuel for civilian purposes, including nuclear power plants.

• March 30, 2010

Lithuanian Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin have discussed energy issues at the first meeting between the heads of government of the neighboring countries in 6 years

• March 30, 2010

India and the United States announced Monday the successful conclusion of negotiations granting rights to India to reprocess spent nuclear fuel, a new step toward opening nuclear commerce between the two countries, potentially worth billions of dollars.

• March 30, 2010