The bilateral Turkmen-Turkish talks on economic cooperation may be held within the summit of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) scheduled for these days in Istanbul (Turkey), an official Turkmen source said.

• December 23, 2010

The vote handed US President Barack Obama a major foreign policy victory in his drive to improve ties with Moscow and curb the spread of atomic weapons to other nations.

• December 23, 2010

Bulgaria is looking at opportunities to export electricity to Lebanon, according to the Minister of Economy, Energy, and Tourism, Traicho Traikov.

• December 23, 2010

Kyrgyz officials say Uzbekistan has reduced natural gas deliveries to Kyrgyzstan's southern regions due to Bishkek's debts, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports.

• December 22, 2010

Belarus lower house of parliament on Tuesday approved the creation of a free trade zone with Russia and Kazakhstan, a move which will help avoid energy supplies cuts to Europe.

• December 22, 2010

Russia has once again proved to be a time-tested friend of India in changing geo-political scenario. It has supported India “as a deserving and strong candidate for a permanent seat in an expanded UN Security Council (UNSC).

• December 22, 2010

Nations in East Asia should cease confrontation and abandon intentions to enhance their own security at the expense of that of their neighbors, said Russia's top envoy to China on Tuesday in Beijing.

• December 22, 2010

Reviewed by Professor Andrej Kreutz

Markedly different from Helen Belopolski’s monograph ‘Russia and the Challengers: Russian Alignment with China, Iran, and Iraq in the Unipolar Era,’ which I have already reviewed, Jeffery Mankoff’s work, which was published as a Council on Foreign Relations Book, cannot claim to be a non-partisan and purely analytical study.

• December 22, 2010