The Kyrgyz government on Monday approved a plan to join a post-Soviet customs union and common economic space.

• April 11, 2011

External power has been restored at all sites affected by the 7th April earthquake. The 3 litres of water that were spilled at Onagawa NPP have been cleaned up.

• April 11, 2011

The International Monetary Fund, or IMF, has proposed a plan to allow the multilateral lender to directly tap financial markets to be able to help member nations in crisis, according to a document published Thursday.

• April 9, 2011

The world's best-known institute for handling bad bugs — Atlanta-based Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) — will help India strengthen its laboratory and manpower capacity to better detect pathogens like NDM-1 and virus outbreaks.

• April 9, 2011

A high-proifile mission from the IMF has praised Latvia's return to growth and said they are happy with this year's budget.

• April 9, 2011

Russia has vowed to build a base on the Moon within two decades which it plans to use as a staging post for a manned mission to Mars.

• April 8, 2011

Bulgaria and Russia have signed a memorandum to stop construction of the Belene nuclear power plant for three months, Bulgaria's National Electric Company (NEK) said

• April 6, 2011

President Dalia Grybauskaitė had a meeting with Norway's Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg. Discussion in the meeting focused on Lithuanian-Norwegian bilateral relations, cooperation in the field of foreign policy and security as well as economy and energy, and elimination of Baltic energy isolation.

• April 6, 2011