Ties between Lithuania and Poland, which have been considered a strategic partnership for a decade and a half, are now described as “the worst in Europe” by Polish diplomatic sources, Lithuanian daily newspaper Lietuvos Rytas said on its website Friday

• Date: 23.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 23.10.2010  |  External Relations  |  from hurriyetdailynews.com

In Tbilisi, memories of the bitter conflict with Russia in August 2008 are fresh, but everywhere too are signs that forces of change are pushing Georgia in new directions. Jonathan Wheatley takes the measure of a fluid political moment.

• Date: 23.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 23.10.2010  |  External Relations  |  from opendemocracy.net

European Union member Lithuania has rejected a proposal by neighbouring non-EU Belarus for a joint nuclear power plant amid competition between three similar projects in the region, an official said Thursday. "The Lithuanian president thinks there is no demand for some kind of joint regional nuclear plant," presidential spokesman Linas Balsys told AFP.

• Date: 22.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 22.10.2010  |  Energy  |  from baltic-course.com

Russia, Ukraine and Slovakia signed on Thursday in Bratislava an intergovernmental agreement on transit of nuclear materials via Ukraine, the Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom reported.

• Date: 22.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 22.10.2010  |  Energy  |  from trend.az

The leaders of four political parties –Ar-Namys, Ata-Jurt, Respublika, and Social-democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan (SPDK) – traveled to Moscow days after the October 10 parliamentary elections

• Date: 22.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 22.10.2010  |  External Relations  |  from jamestown.org

President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė had a meeting with President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus in Minsk where they discussed regional cooperation between the two countries within the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to be chaired by Lithuania in 2011, as well as possibilities for bilateral cooperation.

• Date: 21.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 21.10.2010  |  Energy  |  from baltic-course.com

Armenian prime minister Tigran Sarkisian told a group of Russian journalists in Yerevan that Russia will be one of the main participants in building a new unit for Armenian nuclear power plant along with France and the United States, which will bring their state-of-the-art technology. He said some orders for the new unit are being placed already.

• Date: 21.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 21.10.2010  |  Energy  |  from arka.am

After a century in the economic cold, Russia is close to coming inside, with encouragement and promises of help from an array of Americans, including President Obama, Arnold Schwarzenegger and intrigued venture capitalists.

• Date: 21.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 21.10.2010  |  External Relations  |  from washingtonpost.com