European Union member Lithuania has rejected a proposal by neighbouring non-EU Belarus for a joint nuclear power plant amid competition between three similar projects in the region, an official said Thursday. "The Lithuanian president thinks there is no demand for some kind of joint regional nuclear plant," presidential spokesman Linas Balsys told AFP.

• Date: 22.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 22.10.2010  |  Energy  |  from baltic-course.com

Russia, Ukraine and Slovakia signed on Thursday in Bratislava an intergovernmental agreement on transit of nuclear materials via Ukraine, the Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom reported.

• Date: 22.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 22.10.2010  |  Energy  |  from trend.az

President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė had a meeting with President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus in Minsk where they discussed regional cooperation between the two countries within the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to be chaired by Lithuania in 2011, as well as possibilities for bilateral cooperation.

• Date: 21.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 21.10.2010  |  Energy  |  from baltic-course.com

Armenian prime minister Tigran Sarkisian told a group of Russian journalists in Yerevan that Russia will be one of the main participants in building a new unit for Armenian nuclear power plant along with France and the United States, which will bring their state-of-the-art technology. He said some orders for the new unit are being placed already.

• Date: 21.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 21.10.2010  |  Energy  |  from arka.am

An electronic sign along a busy street posts the outside temperature, the wind strength -- and the radioactivity level.

• Date: 19.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 19.10.2010  |  Energy  |  from nuclearpowerdaily.com

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez visited Belarus on October 16 promising President Alyaksandr Lukashenka that Venezuela could fill Belarus's oil refineries "for the next 200 years."

• Date: 18.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 18.10.2010  |  Energy  |  from rferl.org

President Hugo Chavez, on his ninth visit to Russia in eight years, says he wants to reduce dependence on oil and gas. No details on cost or time are disclosed.

• Date: 16.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 16.10.2010  |  Energy  |  from latimes.com

Gazprom CEO Aleksei Miller held talks with Prime Minister Emil Boc, Economics Minister Ion Ariton, and other officials, on Romania’s possible participation in Gazprom projects. Adriean Videanu, economics minister until six weeks ago and (unusually in Romania) an active proponent of ties with Gazprom, attended the October 13 talks in his new capacity as first vice-chairman of the governing Liberal Democrat Liberal Party.

• Date: 15.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 15.10.2010  |  Energy  |  from jamestown.org