With India and Israel being at an advanced stage of finalising a free trade agreement, the bilateral trade is likely to touch $15 billion from around $5 billion now, said Mr Alon Ushpiz, Ambassador of Israel to India.

• Date: 06.12.2011  |  Published on EGF: 06.12.2011  |  Energy  |  from thehindubusinessline.com

Russia will continue render assistance to Kyrgyzstan – they will not let them die, but a golden rain is not expected. Andrey Grozin, Russian expert, head of the Central Asia and Kazakhstan Department of the CIS Countries Institute, stated at today’s demonstration lecture.

• Date: 06.12.2011  |  Published on EGF: 06.12.2011  |  External Relations  |  from 24.kg

The Australian Uranium Association (AUA) has welcomed the Australian Labor Party’s decision to change its national policy platform to allow for uranium sales to India.

• Date: 05.12.2011  |  Published on EGF: 05.12.2011  |  Energy  |  from miningweekly.com

Press service of the Defense Ministry told APA that the solemn greeting ceremony of Abiyev was held in Kazakhstan’s Defense Ministry, the anthems of both countries were sounded.

• Date: 05.12.2011  |  Published on EGF: 05.12.2011  |  External Relations  |  from apa.az

Lithuanian and Latvian cooperation initiatives are often shadowed by larger-scale regional projects, therefore both countries will seek for greater integration and closer relations, said Lithuanian and Latvian prime ministers during their meeting today.

• Date: 03.12.2011  |  Published on EGF: 03.12.2011  |  External Relations  |  from baltic-course.com

Russians vote Sunday for a new parliament that critics call the "Approval Ministry" for rubber-stamping bills advocated by the Kremlin. Voting will take place among growing discontent with Russia’s strongman of the last decade, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

• Date: 02.12.2011  |  Published on EGF: 02.12.2011  |  Energy  |  from voanews.com

China is challenging Russia as Turkmenistan’s main buyer of natural gas. Ashgabat’s shift could put the Kremlin in a precarious position.

• Date: 02.12.2011  |  Published on EGF: 02.12.2011  |  Energy  |  from thestreet.com

Russia on Thursday urged North Korea to halt its uranium enrichment programme after the Stalinist state reported rapid progress on what some experts believe is a second way of making nuclear weapons.

• Date: 01.12.2011  |  Published on EGF: 01.12.2011  |  External Relations  |  from channelnewsasia.com