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

After a century in the economic cold, Russia is close to coming inside, with encouragement and promises of help from an array of Americans, including President Obama, Arnold Schwarzenegger and intrigued venture capitalists.

• Date: 21.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 21.10.2010  |  External Relations  |  from washingtonpost.com

China and Russia enjoy a strong partnership that precludes any need or desire for competition, a senior Moscow official said at the conclusion of a state visit in Beijing on Tuesday.

• Date: 20.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 20.10.2010  |  External Relations  |  from chinadaily.com.cn

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

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

Russia must do a deal with Georgia over customs controls on their internationally recognized border if it is to pursue its goal of joining the World Trade Organization, Georgia's first deputy foreign minister, Giorgi Bokeria, said on Thursday.

• Date: 15.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 15.10.2010  |  External Relations  |  from reuters.com

Ukraine's pro-Russia government on Thursday made public new charges of fraud against former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, citing a 2,000-page investigative report.

• Date: 15.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 15.10.2010  |  Markets  |  from earthtimes.org