Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has cautiously welcomed a Russian proposal for bringing Iran back to talks over its nuclear program.

• July 21, 2011

Russian company M/s INTER RAO UES, Has expressed its interest to invest in the small hydropower, coal power generation projects and to develop transmission lines in Pakistan. A delegation of the company led by Maxim Sergeev, called on Minister for Water and Power, Syed Naveed Qamar on Wednesday to discuss the investment opportunities in the power sector in Pakistan.

• July 21, 2011

Belarus faces a desperate financial situation that is only likely to get worse. President Alexander Lukashenko thinks he knows why: his people don't work hard enough. He's using some old-fashioned ways of fixing that.

• July 20, 2011

Ukraine began updating its Soviet-era gas transportation system, with the first stage being the reconstruction of the Urengoi-Pomary-Uzhgorod main pipeline from Russia. At the ceremony, which took place near Bohuslav in the Kiev region, Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said that most parts of the natural gas delivered from Russia to Europe goes through Ukraine and that there was a chance for the transit country to offer gas-pipeline advantages to its Russian and European partners.

• July 20, 2011

The nuclear power plant project in Lithuania is a regional, not merely a national project (“Lithuania Chooses Hitachi-General Electric to Build Nuclear Power Plant,” EDM, July 19).

• July 19, 2011

Hannover, July 19 (Interfax) - Germany's decision to phase out nuclear power means that the country will consume more gas, but it will not rely on Gazprom to supply the entire increase, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said at a session of the Russian-German St. Petersburg dialog in Hanover.

• July 19, 2011

When the pro-Western national movement, the so-called revolution of “Roses,” caught fire and swept away the Soviet-style Georgian authorities in 2003, the revolutionary news captured the Lithuanian media’s front page headlines for many weeks to come.

• July 11, 2011

Ukraine’s state-owned ore extracting company, is seeking 6.5 billion hryvnia ($810 million) in loans from state lenders to explore for uranium at the Novokonstantinovskoe deposit, Ekonomicheskie Izvestia reported.

• July 11, 2011