On April 14-15, 2010 Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev will go to the Argentine Republic on an official visit. The main purpose of the visit is expanding of bilateral economic relations.

• Date: 14.04.2010  |  Published on EGF: 14.04.2010  |  External Relations  |  from itar-tass.com

Initiative to hold a global nuclear security summit in Washington "was absolutely timely" and the summit itself was "crowned with a complete success," Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday in a speech at the Brookings Institute on the results of the summit that had brought together the leaders of 47 countries, the UN, the International Atomic Energy Agency, and the European Union.

• Date: 14.04.2010  |  Published on EGF: 14.04.2010  |  Security  |  from itar-tass.com

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday launched the construction of a major gas pipeline aimed at winning market share in Europe while bypassing Ukraine, where strained relations have caused supply disruptions in the past.

• Date: 13.04.2010  |  Published on EGF: 10.04.2010  |  Energy  |  from commodities-now.com

Ukraine has agreed to get rid of its stockpile of weapons-grade uranium in a move that gave President Obama the first significant achievement at the Nuclear Security Summit of 47 nations that opened yesterday in Washington.

• Date: 13.04.2010  |  Published on EGF: 13.04.2010  |  External Relations  |  from timesonline.co.uk

Many news stories have pointed out a possible connection to the mostly Islamic North Caucasus, a region Reuters describes as "plagued by insurgency, whose leaders have threatened to attack cities and energy pipelines elsewhere in Russia."

• Date: 13.04.2010  |  Published on EGF: 29.03.2010  |  External Relations  |  from nationalpost.com

A leading judge has been shot dead at his apartment building in the Russian capital, Moscow court officials have said.

• Date: 12.04.2010  |  Published on EGF: 12.04.2010  |  Security  |  from bbc.co.uk

A year ago in Prague, President Barack Obama pushed a three-pronged plan to move toward a world without nuclear weapons -- and announced a Global Nuclear Security Summit in 2010 to help make that happen.

• Date: 12.04.2010  |  Published on EGF: 12.04.2010  |  External Relations  |  from thehill.com

Polish President Lech Kaczynski has been killed in a plane crash near Smolensk airport in Russia.

• Date: 11.04.2010  |  Published on EGF: 11.04.2010  |  External Relations  |  from polishmarket.com.pl