Ukraine goes to the polls on Sunday to elect a new parliament. Four hundred and fifty seats are up for grabs in an election which pits President Viktor Yanukovich’s ruling Party of Regions against a united opposition coalition.

• October 26, 2012

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has congratulated Turkmen president Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov in connection with the 21st anniversary of Turkmen independence, to be celebrated on October 27.

• October 25, 2012

India and Russia have put off their high-level engagement planned for November 1 by almost two months in order to reach an agreement on some contentious military and civil issues.

• October 23, 2012

Russian lawmakers are denouncing a proposal by the European Parliament that all EU member states impose travel and financial restrictions on Russian officials implicated in the death of Sergei Magnitsky.

• October 23, 2012

ISSUE #40
10/15/2012
There are political prisoners in Ukraine, the head of the EU delegation to Ukraine, Jan Tombinski, has said.
“Ukraine has political prisoners and one can hear this statement even from individuals who are closely connected to the current. READ MORE

• October 23, 2012

Belarus plans to import 5 billion kilowatt hours of electricity from Russia in 2013, Belarusian Energy Minister Alexander Ozerets said at a press conference in Minsk Friday. "The electricity balance with Russia has been entirely agreed. We are looking at deliveries of 5 kilowatt hours from Russia, of which 3 billion kilowatt hours is guaranteed import and 2 billion can be purchased within the balance if it is economically sound," Ozerets said.

• October 22, 2012

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov has this morning arrived in Tehran for holding talks with senior Iranian officials, Fars reported.

• October 22, 2012

Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev paid an official visit to Moscow to celebrate 20 years of good-neighborly relations with its northern neighbor. Russia’s leader, Vladimir Putin, had recently visited Kazakhstan earlier in mid-September. The majority of issues discussed during the bilateral meetings in the presence of sectoral ministers largely remained out of the spotlight, as representatives of the media were only allowed to film the protocol part of Nazarbayev’s visit. However, both presidents subsequently made a number of important declarations.

• October 20, 2012