The South Stream gas pipeline to Europe will top the agenda during bilateral talks between Greek and Bulgarian officials Tuesday in Sofia, officials said.

• Date: 28.07.2010  |  Published on EGF: 28.07.2010  |  Energy  |  from upi.com

Moscow is calling for negotiations to resume on settling the conflict over Transdniestria, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister and Secretary of State Grigory Karasin said.

• Date: 28.07.2010  |  Published on EGF: 28.07.2010  |  External Relations  |  from interfax.com

Moscow has said the new EU sanctions on Iran will undermine efforts for a political-diplomatic resolution with Iran. Russia backed last month's UN sanctions but condemned unilateral measures by the US and the EU.

• Date: 28.07.2010  |  Published on EGF: 28.07.2010  |  External Relations  |  from Deutsche Welle

Environmentalists who traveled by bike along the Baltic coast earlier in July 2010 have slammed Russia's environmental policy, drawing unfavorable comparisons with that of its neighboring Baltic countries, LETA reports referring to St.Petersburg Times.

• Date: 27.07.2010  |  Published on EGF: 27.07.2010  |  External Relations  |  from baltic-course.com

Moscow and Tehran have been living through a period of chill in their relations. It was evidenced in Moscow's reaction to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's recent words accusing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev of becoming "the spokesman for the Iran' s enemies."

• Date: 27.07.2010  |  Published on EGF: 27.07.2010  |  Energy  |  from itar-tass.com

The description of Belarusian President, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, as “pro-Russian” has side-stepped the fact that he is a Soviet Belarusian nationalist which developed after 2002, when he rejected the then Russian President, Vladimir Putin’s, offer to unite both countries

• Date: 27.07.2010  |  Published on EGF: 27.07.2010  |  External Relations  |  from jamestown.org

In a bid to break the deadlock between Serbia and Kosovo over the latter's status, the EU has offered to mediate talks between the two sides in Brussels.

• Date: 27.07.2010  |  Published on EGF: 27.07.2010  |  Energy  |  from Radio Free Europe

China Development Bank offered to co-invest in the planned construction of a nuclear power plant in Belene, Bulgaria, the Serbian government said, citing talks between Serbian Energy and Mining Minister Petar Skundric and a Chinese delegation.

• Date: 27.07.2010  |  Published on EGF: 27.07.2010  |  Energy  |  from kyivpost.com