Russian officials are making a costly and two-fold mistake in viewing Ukraine as a country permanently divided between a virulently nationalistic and Russophobic West and a Russian-speaking and pro-Moscow East, according to a senior analyst at the Moscow Institute of CIS Countries

• July 31, 2010

Russia has announced the largest privatization program since the post-communist sales of the early 1990s.

• July 30, 2010

Günther H. Oettinger, the EU Commissioner for Energy in his speech at the International Odessa Forum (27.07.2010) underlined the importance of closer energy cooperation in the Black Sear region for the EU and the participating states. He stressed the EU strategic importance of efficient energy supply through regional pipelines.

• July 30, 2010

The position of Lithuania on construction of the Belarusian nuclear power plant has not changed, LETA/Charter 97 reports, referring to BelaPAN.

• July 30, 2010

During the process of rapid economic development, "China will need energy, and it is very legitimate," Fatih Birol, the chief economist of the International Energy Agency (IEA)

• July 29, 2010

British Prime Minister David Cameron wooed Indian business leaders Wednesday in a remarkable pitch aimed at revitalizing his nation's economy with help from the burgeoning Asian power it once ruled.

• July 29, 2010

While we obsessed over Russian spies, top diplomats were working to stop a greater espionage problem: the threat of cyberwarfare.

• July 29, 2010

British Prime Minister David Cameron wooed Indian business leaders Wednesday in a remarkable pitch aimed at revitalizing his nation's economy with help from the burgeoning Asian power it once ruled.

• July 29, 2010