Russian, Kazakh and Belarusian Military Forces will conduct military exercises, the representative of the Russian Defense Ministry on Air Force Colonel Vladimir Drik told RIA Novosti, Novosti-Kazakhstan reported.

• March 23, 2012

Russia wants nuclear talks between Iran and the G5+1 to be resumed “as quickly as possible.”

• March 23, 2012

Bulgaria's government has made it clear it is not daunted by the risk of being taken to arbitration by the Russian contractor in Belene nuclear project, should it decide to abandon it.

• March 22, 2012

India has asked Iran to fully cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in order to restore international community's confidence in its nuclear programme being peaceful in nature.

• March 22, 2012

South Korea cut imports of Iranian crude in the first two months of 2012 and Taiwan plans to halt its purchases from July as the two join the growing list of countries reducing imports under pressure from the United States.

• March 22, 2012

A meeting between Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin and Kazakh Deputy Foreign Minister Kairat Sarybai has been held in Moscow today, the ministry said.

• March 20, 2012

North Korea has invited the International Atomic Energy Agency to return, nearly three years after it kicked U.N. nuclear inspectors out of the country.

• March 20, 2012

The head of the Russian Federal Migration Service (FMS) says the Russian government has approved a proposal to renounce an agreement with Kyrgyzstan on simplifying the naturalization of Kyrgyz citizens in Russia.

• March 20, 2012