The International Monetary Fund (IMF) expects the real GDP in countries in the Middle East and Central Asia to hit 5.7 percent in 2010 and 5.4 percent in 2011, IMF Regional Economist Niklas Vestelius said.

• December 11, 2010

The leaders of Afghanistan, India, Pakistan and Turkmenistan meet today in the Turkmen capital Ashgabat to formally approve a $7.6 billion gas pipeline project.  

• December 11, 2010

Armenia and Kazakhstan to increase bilateral trade turnover.

• December 11, 2010

Japan and Russia are to jointly build a liquid natural gas (LNG) plant in the Russian port of Vladivostok, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported.

• December 11, 2010

ISSUE #18
11/12/2010

Leader of «Batkivschyna» Party Yulia Tymoshenko called the recent local elections the dirtiest and the most unfair elections in the whole history of independent Ukraine.
She noted that the results of the elections should have been made public no later than November 5th, however as of November 9th the results of the elections had not been yet announced. In her opinion this proves that the Government is still tempering with the results of the elections in order to get a favorable outcome. «We can not accept such results», - she said. She called Viktor Yanukovych the key organizer of the violations that took place during the elections. «The President has a personal political responsibility for the planned falsifications that occurred during the elections», - the leader of «Batkivschyna» Party said. Along with that she added that her Party will defend the rights of its members to vote and be elected in the European Court of Human Rights. READ MORE

• December 11, 2010

How do you assess the relations between Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan?

• December 10, 2010

The leaders of Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus have adopted a Declaration on the establishment of a Single Economic Area between the three countries.

• December 10, 2010

The former Soviet republic of Georgia wants the United States to outline the steps necessary for it to join NATO.

• December 10, 2010