Vladimir Putin has said it will take decades to reform Russia and that he wants to keep shaping the fate of the world’s largest country, as he gave his strongest indication he will serve a third term as president from 2012.

• Date: 31.08.2010  |  Published on EGF: 31.08.2010  |  Markets  |  from telegraph.co.uk

Lithuanian energy minister said that diversification of the gas market in Lithuania will eliminate the need for ties to the Russian energy sector by 2020, news agency UPI reports.

• Date: 30.08.2010  |  Published on EGF: 30.08.2010  |  Energy  |  from baltic-course.com

Diversification of the gas market in Lithuania will eliminate the need for ties to the Russian energy sector by 2020, the Lithuanian energy minister said.

• Date: 30.08.2010  |  Published on EGF: 30.08.2010  |  Energy  |  from commodityonline.com

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych faced a tough grilling over press freedom in an interview with the German media before a visit to Berlin on Monday. The president had hoped to focus on economic issues.

• Date: 30.08.2010  |  Published on EGF: 30.08.2010  |  External Relations  |  from Deutsche Welle

Russia has launched an ambitious project to build a new spaceflight center in the country's Far East to replace the Baikonur cosmodrome it has been leasing from Kazakhstan since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

• Date: 30.08.2010  |  Published on EGF: 30.08.2010  |  Markets  |  from Deutsche Welle

Azerbaijan and Russia will become the main importers of Kazakh grain, said chief of commercial department of Kazakhstan's Food Corporation Kazbek Omarov.

• Date: 28.08.2010  |  Published on EGF: 28.08.2010  |  Markets  |  from today.az

Pakistan has proposed to Turkmenistan to supply gas via Iran by using the Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline, instead of laying a pipeline through the war-torn Afghanistan, under swap arrangement, Business Recorder has learnt. Experts of the two countries will review the proposal in the 11th Steering Committee meeting on TAPI gas pipeline project scheduled for September 15-20 in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.

• Date: 26.08.2010  |  Published on EGF: 26.08.2010  |  Energy  |  from brecorder.com

Turkey is the riskiest place in the world to surf the web, according to a recent survey conducted by security company AVG and reported by softpedia.com.

• Date: 25.08.2010  |  Published on EGF: 26.08.2010  |  Security  |  from hurriyetdailynews.com