"Due to the trusts we won during cooperation with our Iranian colleagues, we declare on behalf of Russia that Russia will join power plants' development ventures in Iran and we support them. Talks with Iranian side on the issue have been started since long time ago and were never stopped," he said in the inauguration ceremony of the power plant.

• September 13, 2011

ISSUE #29
09/05/2011
On 5 August 2011, a Kiev district court resumed the trial of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko, the leader of the opposition Fatherland party. It is well known that Tymoshenko is accused of exceeding her powers when she signed gas contracts with Russia in 2009. READ MORE

• September 12, 2011

Russia isn’t currently planning to build any new nuclear stations in Iran after operations start at the Persian Gulf state’s first atomic plant in Bushehr, Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said, Bloomberg reported.

• September 7, 2011

Iran and Russia will next week open the Bushehr nuclear power plant in southern Iran, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi said Tuesday.

• September 6, 2011

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovych remained at loggerheads on Monday over the price of gas sold to Ukraine, with Kiev asking for reduced rates and the Moscow side refusing.

• September 3, 2011

Russia is waiting for an invitation to participate in the construction of a power transmission system from Central Asia to South Asia, and it is ready to invest into the project hundreds of millions of dollars, President Dmitry Medvedev said after a meeting with his counterparts from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan.

• September 2, 2011

A deal for Turkey’s first nuclear plant to be built by Russia’s Atomstroyexport will make the country more dependent on Russia, a US diplomat says in a leaked cable

• September 2, 2011

The presidents of Ukraine and Poland, Viktor Yanukovych and Bronislaw Komorowski, discussed Ukraine's relations with the European Union during their meeting in Gdansk, the Ukrainian president's press service reported

• August 31, 2011