Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday sent an Iran-made two-seat airplane to Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov who is here to attend the celebrations for International Day of Nowruz, the semi- official Fars news agency reported.

• March 28, 2011

Kyrgyz Foreign Minister Ruslan Kazakbayev will visit Moscow on March 27-28 to discuss bilateral ties between Russia and Kyrgyzstan with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, a spokesman for the Kyrgyz Foreign Ministry said

• March 27, 2011

The chairman of Russian energy giant Rosneft has said he wants to push ahead with its alliance with BP.

• March 27, 2011

Only a year ago, Russia's dominance as a global energy supplier was threatened by low gas prices and a reputation as an unreliable trade partner. But with the world now shaken by Japan's natural disasters and uprisings across the Middle East, the country is back at the heart of the market - and cashing in

• March 27, 2011

Following the nuclear power plant crisis in Japan, China has ordered safety inspections of its existing nuclear plants and suspension of new plant approvals.

• March 25, 2011

The Ukrainian-Russian intergovernmental working group on March 24, 2011 held the first stage of a meeting in Kyiv to draw up a plan of joint action to settle the conflict over public JSC Ukrtatnafta (Kremenchuk oil refinery, Poltava region), read a press release of the Energy and Coal Industry Ministry of Ukraine.

• March 25, 2011

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili attended the congress of the European People's Party in Brussels.

• March 25, 2011

Russia, responding to the Japanese nuclear crisis, will perform a “stress test” on all its reactors to judge their ability to withstand earthquakes more powerful than the original design anticipated, the Russian state-owned nuclear power company Rosatom said

• March 25, 2011