Russian diplomacy has been on a roll in recent months, the revival of ties with Ukraine being the most dramatic manifestation. But a string of successes, major and minor, sung and unsung, has been notched up below that high point - in Poland, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Norway and Syria.

• Date: 14.05.2010  |  Published on EGF: 15.05.2010  |  Energy  |  from atimes.com

Moscow and Kiev will draw up by June a long-term contract on Russian deliveries of nuclear fuel to Ukraine, the head of the Russian presidential administration said Friday.

• Date: 14.05.2010  |  Published on EGF: 15.05.2010  |  Energy  |  from rian.ru

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has been in the headlines, first for describing his predecessor Joseph Stalin as a "totalitarian dictator" and then for making the first state visit to Syria by a Kremlin chief since the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.

• Date: 14.05.2010  |  Published on EGF: 14.05.2010  |  External Relations  |  from atimes.com

China and other key world powers, except the US, have keen national interests at stake as far as Teheran is concerned

• Date: 14.05.2010  |  Published on EGF: 14.05.2010  |  Energy  |  from chinadaily.com.cn

More than 300 Romanian, U.S., Ukrainian and Macedonian troops will participate from May 17-June 24 in 'the Black Sea Rotational Force 2010' drill organized in eastern Romania, according to a news release on Thurday from the Romanian Navy General Staff.

• Date: 14.05.2010  |  Published on EGF: 14.05.2010  |  External Relations  |  from People's Daily Online

Russia is hoping its relations with Britain will get better when the new government takes office. Both experts and politicians do forecast an eventual warming in bilateral relations, but at the same time they warn that an early breakthrough is unlikely.

• Date: 14.05.2010  |  Published on EGF: 14.05.2010  |  External Relations  |  from ITAR-TASS

A supposedly confidential Foreign Ministry document — an intentional leak that was published on Russian Newsweek’s web site this week — has created a stir among diplomats and journalists. Many saw it as a revelation or a signal of a significant and welcome policy shift toward the West. But in reality, this is quite an overstatement.

• Date: 14.05.2010  |  Published on EGF: 14.05.2010  |  External Relations  |  from themoscowtimes.com

Investments that yield energy savings will reward the banks who provide crediting

• Date: 14.05.2010  |  Published on EGF: 14.05.2010  |  Energy  |  from kyivpost.com