“Russia joined the WTO and now does not need goods from Kyrgyzstan,” the Dordoi Trade Union member Ismat Shamiyev stated at today’s conference “Employment in the KRG: problems and political choice”.

• November 11, 2011

The active phase of the joint Armenian-Russian tactical training with firing practice was held on Alagyaz training ground of Armenia.

• November 11, 2011

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed Wednesday that Iran won't retreat "one iota" from its nuclear program, denying claims that it seeks atomic weapons. Key ally Russia gave the Islamic Republic a major boost, rejecting tighter sanctions despite a U.N. watchdog report detailing suspected arms-related advances.

• November 11, 2011

Kazakhstan is looking at widening participation in its privatisation programme to international investors, the deputy chief executive of the country's sovereign wealth fund Samruk-Kazyna said on Thursday.

• November 10, 2011

Russia is ready to build more nuclear reactors in Iran, its nuclear chief Sergei Kiriyenko said Thursday despite renewed fears that Tehran is seeking to produce nuclear weapons.

• November 10, 2011

Iran’s supreme leader on Thursday warned Israel and the United States that any attack on the country’s controversial nuclear program would be met with an “iron fist.”

• November 10, 2011

Pakistan and Turkmenistan have reportedly reached bilateral agreement over the price of gas through the planned Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) natural gas pipeline.

• November 9, 2011

Nato has embraced many former Soviet bloc countries but Georgia remains for now just a partner because of its 2008 war with Russia.

• November 9, 2011