China has made global headlines in recent months for overtaking the US as the largest emitter of carbon dioxide, while state media ran almost daily stories of chemical water pollution and contaminated food, writes the Mail and Guardian.

• November 30, 2010

Lithuania "has questions" about the report on the environmental impact assessment (EIA) of the future nuclear power plants in Belarus

• November 29, 2010

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovich discussed a wide range of issues in a three-hour meeting here on Friday.

• November 27, 2010

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday lashed out at European Union laws aimed at liberalising the continent's energy market, saying they hinder investment and amount to uncivilised 'robbery'.

• November 27, 2010

Relations between Latvia and Belgium are good, however, there is still much potential for closer economic ties between the two countries, new Foreign Minister Girts Valdis Kristovskis said yesterday during a meeting with the Belgian Ambassador to Latvia Leopold Merckx, who arrived on an introductory visit.

• November 26, 2010

Hundreds of Chinese and Russian business representatives exchanged views on further deepening bilateral pragmatic cooperation in various fields at the fifth China-Russia economic and trade summit forum that opened in Moscow on Wednesday.

• November 25, 2010

Polish Energy Group (PGE) has expressed its interest in joining Lithuania's new nuclear power plant Visaginas project, The Lithuania Tribune reports.

• November 25, 2010

Russia and the EU should develop industrial strategic alliances in order to promote a "new wave of industrialization" in Europe, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said

• November 25, 2010