Russia’s customs union with Belarus and Kazakhstan may provide a loophole that will allow Georgian goods to enter Russia for the first time since an embargo was imposed in 2006, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili said.

• Date: 24.03.2010  |  Published on EGF: 25.03.2010  |  External Relations  |  from hurriyetdailynews.com

Russia and China have quietly made clear to the Iranian government they want Tehran to change its approach to the nuclear issue and accept a U.N. atomic fuel offer, Western diplomats said.

• Date: 24.03.2010  |  Published on EGF: 24.03.2010  |  Energy  |  from siasat.com

Last week there was a visit of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Belarus where he took part in a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers of the union state.

• Date: 24.03.2010  |  Published on EGF: 24.03.2010  |  External Relations  |  from expertclub.ge

Despite the impact of the global economic crisis on all of the economies within the former Soviet Union, averaging a 7 percent decline in GDP in 2009, defense spending has increased in each state with the exception of Belarus (which remained unchanged in 2009 year-on-year at 1.5 percent of GDP).

• Date: 24.03.2010  |  Published on EGF: 24.03.2010  |  External Relations  |  from jamestown.org

The man widely seen as China's next leader told Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Tuesday the world's two most powerful emerging market economies should help each other increase their weight in global affairs.

• Date: 24.03.2010  |  Published on EGF: 24.03.2010  |  External Relations  |  from thestar.com.my

RIA Novosti cited Mr Sergei Lavrov Russian Foreign Minister as saying that Turkmen President Mr Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov on recently confirmed the Central Asian republic's readiness to supply the required gas volumes to Russia.

• Date: 23.03.2010  |  Published on EGF: 23.03.2010  |  Energy  |  from steelguru.com

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin greeted Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Moscow Thursday with the same sort of disagreeable surprise that Israel gave Vice President Joe Biden during his visit to the Middle East last week

• Date: 22.03.2010  |  Published on EGF: 22.03.2010  |  External Relations  |  from post-gazette.com

TWO summits in three months is unusual, even considering the strategic ties India and Russia have nurtured for over five decades.

• Date: 22.03.2010  |  Published on EGF: 22.03.2010  |  External Relations  |  from New Straits Times