The head of Russia's Security Council said in a newspaper interview published on Tuesday that the United States wanted a weakened Russia so as to gain access to its vast mineral resources.

• Date: 26.01.2016  |  Published on EGF: 26.01.2016  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com

Iranian President Hassan Rohani says Iran and China have agreed to expand bilateral relations and boost trade to $600 billion over the next 10 years.

• Date: 24.01.2016  |  Published on EGF: 23.01.2016  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.rferl.org

The European Central bank will "review and possibly reconsider" it monetary policy stance when it next meets in March because of weaker-than-expected inflation dynamics in the euro zone, ECB President Mario Draghi said on Thursday.

• Date: 22.01.2016  |  Published on EGF: 22.01.2016  |  Markets  |  from http://www.reuters.com

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Tehran on Friday to discuss improvement of economic and political ties after lifting of international sanctions because of Iran's disputed nuclear program, state TV said.

• Date: 22.01.2016  |  Published on EGF: 22.01.2016  |  Markets  |  from http://www.reuters.com

Ukraine plans soon to launch a fresh diplomatic initiative to recover the Crimean peninsula from Russia which annexed it in 2014, Finance Minister Natalia Yaresko told Reuters on Wednesday.

• Date: 20.01.2016  |  Published on EGF: 20.01.2016  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com

A Ukrainian government order to cut off trade with the Russian-annexed Ukrainian region of Crimea has come into effect.

• Date: 19.01.2016  |  Published on EGF: 19.01.2016  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.rferl.org/

Politicians and business leaders gathering in the Swiss Alps this week face an increasingly divided world, with the poor falling further behind the super-rich and political fissures in the United States, Europe and the Middle East running deeper than at any time in decades.

• Date: 18.01.2016  |  Published on EGF: 18.01.2016  |  Markets  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Oil prices plummeted to $29 a barrel Friday on the likely resumption soon of Iranian oil exports into an already flooded market as international sanctions against Iran are lifted, dragging equity indices around the world sharply lower.

• Date: 15.01.2016  |  Published on EGF: 15.01.2016  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.rferl.org