The EU's top diplomat Catherine Ashton said the European Union is set to adopt 'targeted measures' against the Belarusian regime, possibly including a travel ban on President Alexander Lukashenko.

• January 20, 2011

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will meet with his Belarusian counterpart Mikhail Myasnikovich to discuss economic and energy cooperation.

• January 20, 2011

The United States and China on Wednesday agreed on $45 billion in U.S. export deals and to give U.S. companies greater access to China's $88 billion-plus government contracts market at the start of Chinese President Hu Jintao's four-day state visit.

• January 20, 2011

Turkmenistan’s role in regional and global trade will become more significant if the country applies for World Trade Organisation (WTO) membership, Jose Manuel Barroso, president of the European Comission, told Turkmen president Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov January 15, news media reported.

• January 19, 2011

Kiev signed a two-year agreement with a Belarusian oil company for guaranteed supplies of oil through the Odessa-Brody pipeline, an energy official said.

• January 19, 2011

Georgian Prime Minister participated in the 4th World Future Energy Summit held in Abu Dhabi

• January 19, 2011

Estonian state-owned energy company Eesti Energia has purchased 90% of bio-energy producer Valkas bioenergijas kompanija shares, newspaper Dienas Bizness reports. Valkas bioenergijas kompanija was renamed Enefit Power&Heat Valka yesterday.

• January 19, 2011

Bulgaria was still hesitating to build the Belene nuclear power plant and to participate in the South Stream pipeline construction, Energy Minister Traicho Traikov said here Tuesday.

• January 19, 2011