Georgia is waiting for many-billion investments into its power economy: it wants to build 15 hydroelectric power stations and become the largest electrical energy exporter in the region, Business-Georgia reports.

• February 8, 2011

The Polish President has said he wants to hold a four-way summit with France, Germany and Russia during the Polish EU presidency as part of a Polish-model 'ostpolitik' for the union.

• February 8, 2011

A square, an angry crowd, banners, the bitter smell of burning, the grinding noise of manoeuvring tanks, blood: this time it's Cairo, but for the last three decades we have seen similar images from a range of autocracies under threat, from the Shah's Tehran, Deng Xiaoping's Beijing and Ceausescu's Bucharest to the uprisings of the last couple of years in Iran, Tunisia, and now Egypt.

• February 7, 2011

A square, an angry crowd, banners, the bitter smell of burning, the grinding noise of manoeuvring tanks, blood: this time it's Cairo, but for the last three decades we have seen similar images from a range of autocracies under threat, from the Shah's Tehran, Deng Xiaoping's Beijing and Ceausescu's Bucharest to the uprisings of the last couple of years in Iran, Tunisia, and now Egypt.

• February 7, 2011

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Yousus Raza Gilani’s government recently managed to maintain a majority after hectic backroom bargaining with its coalition partners.

• February 7, 2011

Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan led a large rally Monday demanding the return of several islands held by Russia since the end of World War II and calling the recent visit there by Russia's president an outrage.

• February 7, 2011

A new U.S.-Russia nuclear-arms-control treaty went into effect Saturday, securing a key foreign-policy goal of President Obama and raising hopes among officials on both sides that it will provide the impetus for Moscow and Washington to negotiate further reductions.

• February 7, 2011

In late 2011 - early 2012, the Czech 'Energy' engineering and construction company will begin construction of new power plant and coal mines in Tkibuli (Georgia).

• February 5, 2011