Russian oil companies are facing fines of hundreds of millions of dollars or more for polluting the atmosphere with excess amounts of flared gas, the newly appointed resources minister said on Saturday.

• June 16, 2012

Russia's chief arms exporter said Friday that his company was shipping advanced defensive missile systems to Syria that could be used to shoot down airplanes or sink ships if the United States or other Western nations try to intervene to halt the country's spiral of violence.

• June 16, 2012

The Belarusian government has denounced the U.S. decision to extend a " national emergency" over Washington's relations to Belarus.

• June 15, 2012

The construction of the Belarusian nuclear power plant (NPP) has increased the interest of Lithuanian investors in Ostrovets District of Belarus, Chairman of the Ostrovets District Executive Committee Adam Kovalko said at the meeting with Lithuanian reporters on 13 June, reports law.by.

• June 14, 2012

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday accused the United States of supplying weapons to Syria's rebels after Hillary Clinton said Moscow was supplying the Assad regime with "attack helicopters".

• June 13, 2012

The United States is seeing a dramatic surge in oil and gas production and could overtake the world's biggest producers, Russia and Saudi Arabia, in another decade, a US official said here Tuesday.

• June 13, 2012

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is expected to visit Iran on June 13 to discuss a range of issues, including the next round of talks between Iran and six world powers on the Islamic republic's nuclear program.

• June 11, 2012

ISSUE #21
06/04/2012
On 29 May 2012, Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski said that it was necessary to bring Ukraine closer to integration into the EU. “Let us not abandon Ukraine on its path towards the Western world because [it] will go to the East,” he said. READ MORE

• June 11, 2012