Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has cautiously welcomed a Russian proposal for bringing Iran back to talks over its nuclear program.

• Date: 21.07.2011  |  Published on EGF: 21.07.2011  |  Energy  |  from hurriyetdailynews.com

Ukrainian Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov called on Wednesday for significant restrictions of Ukraine's foreign debt level amid current economic instability.

• Date: 21.07.2011  |  Published on EGF: 21.07.2011  |  Markets  |  from rian.ru

Ukraine began updating its Soviet-era gas transportation system, with the first stage being the reconstruction of the Urengoi-Pomary-Uzhgorod main pipeline from Russia. At the ceremony, which took place near Bohuslav in the Kiev region, Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said that most parts of the natural gas delivered from Russia to Europe goes through Ukraine and that there was a chance for the transit country to offer gas-pipeline advantages to its Russian and European partners.

• Date: 20.07.2011  |  Published on EGF: 20.07.2011  |  Energy  |  from neurope.eu

Belarus faces a desperate financial situation that is only likely to get worse. President Alexander Lukashenko thinks he knows why: his people don't work hard enough. He's using some old-fashioned ways of fixing that.

• Date: 20.07.2011  |  Published on EGF: 20.07.2011  |  Markets  |  from dw-world.de

Hannover, July 19 (Interfax) - Germany's decision to phase out nuclear power means that the country will consume more gas, but it will not rely on Gazprom to supply the entire increase, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said at a session of the Russian-German St. Petersburg dialog in Hanover.

• Date: 19.07.2011  |  Published on EGF: 19.07.2011  |  Energy  |  from kyivpost.com

The nuclear power plant project in Lithuania is a regional, not merely a national project (“Lithuania Chooses Hitachi-General Electric to Build Nuclear Power Plant,” EDM, July 19).

• Date: 19.07.2011  |  Published on EGF: 19.07.2011  |  External Relations  |  from jamestown.org

Ukraine’s state-owned ore extracting company, is seeking 6.5 billion hryvnia ($810 million) in loans from state lenders to explore for uranium at the Novokonstantinovskoe deposit, Ekonomicheskie Izvestia reported.

• Date: 12.07.2011  |  Published on EGF: 12.07.2011  |  Energy  |  from bloomberg.com

Estonian and Russian experts met in Tallinn to discuss the financial, economic, environmental and nuclear safety issues concerning the planned nuclear power plant in Kaliningrad

• Date: 05.07.2011  |  Published on EGF: 05.07.2011  |  Energy  |  from baltic-course.com