The Russian -Iranian relationship lies very much in the development of international issues elsewhere in the world. At the moment, Russia and Iran have a mutual need to maintain their relationship and to play up its importance in order to protect the territorial status and exertinfluence with other neighbouring states.

• Date: 14.07.2010  |  Published on EGF: 14.07.2010  |  External Relations  |  from americanchronicle.com

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Monday Iran was gaining the ability to build a nuclear bomb, the strongest criticism of Iran's nuclear program to emerge from the Kremlin under either Medvedev or his predecessor, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

• Date: 13.07.2010  |  Published on EGF: 13.07.2010  |  External Relations  |  from chinadaily.com.cn

Russian gas behemoth Gazprom is trying to get German power company RWE to join the South Stream gas pipeline project, a press report said on Monday, raising the stakes for a rival European programme.

• Date: 13.07.2010  |  Published on EGF: 13.07.2010  |  Energy  |  from busrep.co.za

Cooperation with Belarus in nuclear energy projects could convince the neighbours to abandon their plans of erecting a new nuclear power plant (AE) near Lithuania, Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius said

• Date: 12.07.2010  |  Published on EGF: 12.07.2010  |  Energy  |  from baltic-course.com

Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski leaves Poland on Monday for a tour of Georgia, Armenia and Kazakhstan.

• Date: 12.07.2010  |  Published on EGF: 12.07.2010  |  Energy  |  from thenews.pl

Last week, with a neat turn of phrase, United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton captured the quintessence of the United States "reset" of ties with Russia.

• Date: 12.07.2010  |  Published on EGF: 12.07.2010  |  External Relations  |  from atimes.com

While Washington and Moscow had their eyes on one another, Beijing stole the prize.

• Date: 12.07.2010  |  Published on EGF: 12.07.2010  |  Energy  |  from foreignpolicy.com

Latvia’s Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis (New Era) on Thursday had a meeting with the Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk; at the meeting, Dombrovskis informed about Latvia's move to the euro and the planned adoption of the European single currency in Latvia on January 1, 2014, as Dombrovskis' press secretary Liga Krapane told LETA.

• Date: 10.07.2010  |  Published on EGF: 10.07.2010  |  Energy  |  from baltic-course.com