Environmentalists who traveled by bike along the Baltic coast earlier in July 2010 have slammed Russia's environmental policy, drawing unfavorable comparisons with that of its neighboring Baltic countries, LETA reports referring to St.Petersburg Times.

• July 27, 2010

Russia is planning the largest auction of state assets since Boris Yeltsin's privatisations of the 1990s to improve the public finances.

• July 27, 2010

High stakes for political groups seeking power in stronger parliament

• July 27, 2010

China Development Bank offered to co-invest in the planned construction of a nuclear power plant in Belene, Bulgaria, the Serbian government said, citing talks between Serbian Energy and Mining Minister Petar Skundric and a Chinese delegation.

• July 27, 2010

In a bid to break the deadlock between Serbia and Kosovo over the latter's status, the EU has offered to mediate talks between the two sides in Brussels.

• July 27, 2010

The description of Belarusian President, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, as “pro-Russian” has side-stepped the fact that he is a Soviet Belarusian nationalist which developed after 2002, when he rejected the then Russian President, Vladimir Putin’s, offer to unite both countries

• July 27, 2010

Cement import from Pakistan, which began three years ago mostly through the train route through the Attari border, has grown exponentially and boosted infrastructure from real estate to highways.

• July 26, 2010

If there is an interstate water dispute or if any state government senses the likelihood of a water dispute because of any executive action or legislation passed or proposed by another state, it can bring it to the Centre's notice.

• July 26, 2010