Events this week confirm that Turkmenistan has taken a decisive strategic decision to diversify its gas exports not only beyond Russia but also beyond China.

• May 28, 2010

President Mikheil Saakashvili on Wednesday oversaw Georgia's first military parade since the 2008 war with Russia and urged the army to stand firm against what he called a continuing threat from "outside forces".

• May 27, 2010

A week after announcing a uranium-swap agreement with Turkey and Brazil, Iran on Monday formally submitted the proposal to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna — and in doing so, as Tehran sees it, put the proverbial ball back in the court of the U.S. and its allies.

• May 27, 2010

BP says a bid to plug its leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico is going to plan, but it is too early to know if it will work.

• May 27, 2010

For years, the race to tap into the Caspian Sea's vast oil and gas resources has outweighed any desire to protect its delicate environment.

• May 26, 2010

The Baltic States comprises of the three states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania which lie in north-central Europe, on the eastern edge of the Baltic Sea. These countries gained their independence from the former U.S.S.R. in 1991.

• May 26, 2010

China and the United States agreed to work together in order to ensure energy security and stabilise the international energy market.

• May 26, 2010

Energy and security: Russia’s new obsession with the wider Black Sea region Revived by the economic recovery it has witnessed in recent years, and not necessarily weakened by the global financial crisis, Russia is demonstrating itself to be an increasingly assertive (political and economic) force in the wider-Black and Caspian Seas (BCS) basin. Exerting influence in the BCS region is a crucial element in the Russian geopolitical strategy, given the region’s importance both as an energy producer as well as its vitality as a primary corridor for the transit of oil and gas to international markets.

• May 26, 2010