A Czech delegation headed by chairman of the Committee on Education, Science, Culture, Human Rights and Petitions of the Senate of the Czech Republic Jaromir Ermar is in Ashgabat, the Turkmen government said.

• October 22, 2011

Tajikistan considers the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit as an important political event for the future cooperation between the two countries, Tajikistan's Foreign Affairs Minister Hamrokhon Zarifi said on Saturday.

• October 22, 2011

ISSUE #33
10/03/2011
On 11 October 2011 a Kiev district court will start to read the verdict regarding the leader of the opposition Fatherland party and former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko. A correspondent of the Ukrainian news and analysis website Lb.ua reported that that court debates in Tymoshenko's case were completed on 30 September 2011. It was expected that Tymoshenko would deliver a concluding speech in the court on the same day. However, the former prime minister requested her address to be rescheduled for 2 October 2011. She explained her demand by the fact that prior to her speech, the prosecutor's office and civil plaintiff had unveiled fresh “aspects that totally differ from the indictment.” READ MORE

• October 22, 2011

By the latest estimates, Turkmenistan’s potential gas reserves are even larger than previously thought, encouraging the European Union to tap into this potential, and motivating Ashgabat to cooperate with Brussels and Baku on a trans-Caspian pipeline bound for Europe despite Moscow’s opposition.

• October 21, 2011

After a week of bruising criticism from the West over the jailing of his main political opponent, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych on Tuesday heard the words that put all strongman leaders at ease.

• October 21, 2011

One day after delivering a bizarre and inflammatory speech at the United Nations in New York, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his government is in discussions with Russia about constructing another nuclear power plant in Iran.

• October 21, 2011

Following the official welcoming ceremony, presidents Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan and Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan met in private.

• October 20, 2011

Two U.S. senators urged the Obama administration on Wednesday not to sacrifice Georgia's security and sovereignty concerns in Washington's effort to help Moscow join the World Trade Organization.

• October 20, 2011