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

The Pentagon plans to build military capabilities in Georgia and the three Baltic states to ready them for operations in Afghanistan, a move that could raise alarm in Moscow.

• March 30, 2010

On the anniversary of the uprising that toppled Kyrgyzstan’s’s hardline leader, the same revolutionaries who came to power promising a new era of freedom announced they have given up on Western-style democracy.

• March 30, 2010

'Russia is a developed economy. It is beginning to suffer from the developed economy problems, (like) terrorism,' Louis Gargour from LNG Capital said Monday of the two bomb blasts on

• March 30, 2010

The Moscow metro bombings that killed at least 38 people today show President Dmitry Medvedev is no closer to uprooting homegrown terrorism than his predecessor, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

• March 30, 2010