Iran denied on Saturday that it had reached an agreement with the United States to ship its surplus enriched uranium to Russia under new concessions aimed at clinching a comprehensive nuclear deal with six world powers.

• Date: 05.01.2015  |  Published on EGF: 05.01.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Lithuania joined the euro zone at the stroke of midnight on Thursday, hoping to anchor itself in Europe as its former master Russia flexes its military muscle in the region.

• Date: 02.01.2015  |  Published on EGF: 02.01.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Ukraine's President said on Monday he would meet the leaders of Russia, France and Germany on Jan. 15 in an attempt to restore peace to Kiev's eastern territories and acknowledged Kiev lacked the resources to regain control by military means.

• Date: 29.12.2014  |  Published on EGF: 29.12.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

As U.S. and European sanctions piled pressure on Russia earlier this year, the Kremlin hit back with an unusual weapon: apples.

• Date: 28.12.2014  |  Published on EGF: 28.12.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

German Chancellor Angela Merkel appealed to the Russian government on Sunday to use its influence on separatists in eastern Ukraine to implement a ceasefire plan agreed in Minsk in September aimed at ending the conflict.

• Date: 28.12.2014  |  Published on EGF: 28.12.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Ukraine's pursuit of NATO membership posed a danger to European security and that the West was using Kiev's bid to join the Atlantic alliance as a way to fuel confrontation between Russia and Ukraine.

• Date: 25.12.2014  |  Published on EGF: 25.12.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Russia said on Wednesday NATO was turning Ukraine into a "frontline of confrontation" and threatened to sever remaining ties with the Atlantic military alliance if Ukraine's hopes of joining it were realized.

• Date: 24.12.2014  |  Published on EGF: 24.12.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Geopolitics plague Lithuanians at this frozen Russian border post, where a return trip by car can mean 48 hours of queuing. It is a reminder for some of why the former Soviet republic will cement its move to the West by joining the euro zone next month.

• Date: 23.12.2014  |  Published on EGF: 23.12.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/