Parliaments of Belarus and Tajikistan intend to sign an agreement on cooperation

• Date: 28.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 28.10.2010  |  External Relations  |  from trend.az

European Union foreign ministers on Monday kept the threat of sanctions hanging over Belarus, but decided not to implement the threat in the hope of encouraging the authoritarian state towards democratic reforms.

• Date: 26.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 26.10.2010  |  External Relations  |  from earthtimes.org

Turkmenistan and Russia bolstered their natural gas relationship on Friday during a visit by President Dmitry Medvedev to his counterpart Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, with both sides hedging their bets as the Chinese market grows and the European one shrinks.

• Date: 26.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 26.10.2010  |  Energy  |  from sptimes.ru

Estonia plans to separate Eesti Gaas' gas sales and transmission divisions in two years to reduce dependence on Gazprom, the utility's biggest owner and its sole gas supplier.

• Date: 25.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 25.10.2010  |  Energy  |  from http://www.themoscowtimes.com/

In Tbilisi, memories of the bitter conflict with Russia in August 2008 are fresh, but everywhere too are signs that forces of change are pushing Georgia in new directions. Jonathan Wheatley takes the measure of a fluid political moment.

• Date: 23.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 23.10.2010  |  External Relations  |  from opendemocracy.net

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

The leaders of four political parties –Ar-Namys, Ata-Jurt, Respublika, and Social-democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan (SPDK) – traveled to Moscow days after the October 10 parliamentary elections

• Date: 22.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 22.10.2010  |  External Relations  |  from jamestown.org