Italy and Serbia signed a strategic partnership on renewable energy in Rome on Tuesday. The goal is for Italian companies to produce hydroelectric power in Serbia and export it to Italy via Montenegro.

• October 27, 2011

Russia has reaffirmed its stated commitment to help Armenia build a new nuclear plant, while cautioning that the ambitious and expensive project will not be easy to implement.

• October 27, 2011

Armenian capital city Yerevan hosted today the 12-th meeting of the CIS Commission for Use of Nuclear Energy for Peaceful Purposes and also a meeting of international working groups.

• October 27, 2011

According to the Tajik MFA information department, Tajik Foreign Minister Hamrokhon Zarifi and Mr. Stephen Nellen, Swiss Ambassador to Tajikistan (with residence in Astana), signed a number of documents on bilateral cooperation between Tajikistan and Switzerland.

• October 26, 2011

Ahead of a Russian visit of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in December “privileged strategic partnership” between Moscow and New Delhi faced serious problems, the Kommersant writes. The project to build a nuclear power plant involving Russian specialists in Kudankulam is under threat over the protests of local residents.

• October 26, 2011

Over the past eight months of 2011, more than one and a half billion litas flowed outside Lithuania. The country has to take action to reduce its dependence on imports and encourage exports to stop the emigration of money, an economist with Nordea Bank Lietuva says.

• October 26, 2011

Sofia and Podgorica are considering setting up a joint company for the transfer of electricity to Italy after talks were held between Montenegrin Prime Minister Igor Luksic Bulgarian PM Boyko Borissov in Sofia.

• October 25, 2011

India and Japan will hold their fifth strategic dialogue from Friday during which the two sides will review and discuss ways to strengthen cooperation in key areas, including civil nuclear field, trade and security.

• October 25, 2011