Ukraine and Poland have signed a number of agreements on economic cooperation. The sides signed a protocol, an agreement on social assistance, and an administrative agreement on it, reads a press release of the Infrastructure Ministry of Ukraine distributed at a press conference following a meeting of the Ukrainian-Polish Intergovernmental Committee on Economic Cooperation.

• Date: 19.05.2012  |  Published on EGF: 19.05.2012  |  Energy  |  from kyivpost.com

Bulgaria managed to negotiate special terms for the supply of Russian gas regardless of its abrupt withdrawal from the Burgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline and the Belene NPP energy projects, Russian media outlets note.

• Date: 18.05.2012  |  Published on EGF: 18.05.2012  |  Energy  |  from novinite.com

Chairman of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus Vladimir Andreichenko met with Chairman of Majilis of the Parliament of Kazakhstan Nurlan Nigmatulin, Chairman of the Parliament of Kyrgyzstan Asylbek Zheenbekov in St Petersburg on 16 May, BelTA learnt from the press service of the House of Representatives.

• Date: 17.05.2012  |  Published on EGF: 17.05.2012  |  External Relations  |  from inform.kz

Although President Viktor Yanukovych publicly portrays his foreign policy as multi-vector – balancing between Russia and the West – in reality, there has been a substantial shift in Ukraine’s orientation toward Russia (see EDM, November 3, 2009, January 20, 2010, January 29, 2010). Yanukovych’s multi-vectorism is pro-Russian in contrast to the pro-Western multi-vectorism pursued by President Leonid Kuchma.

• Date: 16.05.2012  |  Published on EGF: 16.05.2012  |  External Relations  |  from jamestown.org

Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev has invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to visit Kyrgyzstan for an official visit, the press service of the Kyrgyz President reported on Wednesday. The invitation was accepted with gratitude.

• Date: 16.05.2012  |  Published on EGF: 16.05.2012  |  External Relations  |  from en.trend.az

Could soccer succeed where a revolution, diplomacy and an age-old fear of Russia has failed?

• Date: 15.05.2012  |  Published on EGF: 15.05.2012  |  Markets  |  from globalpost.com

Belarus and Kazakhstan underuse their potential in economic cooperation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Kazakhstan to Belarus Ergali Bulegenov told in an interview to the Belarus-1 TV Channel.

• Date: 14.05.2012  |  Published on EGF: 14.05.2012  |  External Relations  |  from news.belta.by

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin will skip a planned visit to the United States this month for a key global summit and a much-anticipated meeting with President Barack Obama, the Kremlin confirmed Thursday, as he faced pressure from protests and opposition criticism at home.

• Date: 10.05.2012  |  Published on EGF: 10.05.2012  |  External Relations  |  from washingtonpost.com