In meeting with Knesset Speaker Rivlin, Sergei Lavrov says Tehran will avoid such an assault as a result of millions of 'Arabs and Muslims' who reside in the country; Rivlin: Only Russia can stop Iran without sanctions, military action.

• October 11, 2012

Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said Syria has stopped purchasing electricity from neighbouring Turkey. The move was due to damage to Syrian infrastructure, he explained. "Syria halted their power purchases from Turkey one week ago," Yildiz said.

• October 11, 2012

Kazakhstan and Russia will develop new agreement on good neighborhood and strategic partnership in 2013. Such decision was taken at a meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Kazakh counterpart Nursultan Nazarbayev in Moscow on Tuesday, Kazakh presidential press-service reported.

• October 10, 2012

Delegations from Russia and Georgia delved into a 21st round of talks in Geneva Wednesday aimed at easing tensions still evident since a brief war in 2008 over two breakaway Georgian provinces.

• October 10, 2012

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned on Wednesday that the use of force against Tehran would spell the end of the negotiating process on Iran’s nuclear program.

• October 10, 2012

Kyrgyz Prime-minister Zhantoro Satibaldiyev met with head of International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Mission Christian Beddis, KyrTAG reported on Tuesday.

• October 9, 2012

Russia and Kazakhstan implement some joint projects at Baikonur Cosmodrome, Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos reported.

• October 9, 2012

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said he sees no obstacles standing in the way of other countries' entry into the Common Economic Space (CES) if these states agree to meet a number of conditions.

• October 9, 2012