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Serbia Decides on Bulgaria's Nuclear Plant in Fall
The majority in the Serbian cabinet supports the country’s participation in Bulgaria’s Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) project, according to the Serbian newspaper “Vecherne Novosti.”
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Russian president visits breakaway Abkhazia
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arrived Sunday in Abkhazia, one of the separatist territories over which Russia and Georgia warred two years ago, the state-run Interfax news agency reported.
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Japan vows to increase assistance to Central Asia
Japan pledged increased assistance for Central Asia ranging from antiterrorism measures to infrastructure development for goods distribution when foreign ministers from Tokyo and the region gathered Saturday in the Uzbek capital.
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EGF Forum Outlook: Assessing Gazprom’s Next Movements
 (86 Kb) In a recent briefing on Russia, this Forum expressed the view that Moscow is becoming an increasingly assertive regional player in the wider Black and Caspian Sea (BCS) basin and that energy remains a key Russian priority for the region. We commented in that report that the Russian state-controlled energy holding, Gazprom, provided Moscow with a significant instrument to exercise power in the region. READ MORE
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Tadic: Serbia to Back Bulgaria's Belene Nuclear Power Plant
Serbian President Boris Tadic has arrived to Bulgaria’s Varna for high-level bilateral talks with Prime Minister Boyko Borisov.
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Surge in nuclear power projects imperils Belarus program
According to Belarusian First Vice-Prime Minister, Vladimir Semashko, the end of July 2010 was scheduled to mark the finalization of an agreement between Belarus and Russia to build the nuclear power station at Astravets in the Hrodna region with construction of the station to start next July (Svobodnye Novosti Plyus, July 14-21), unsurprisingly, given recent tensions between the two countries, that did not happen.
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Annual inflation in Estonia in July made 2.9%
According to Statistics Estonia, the consumer price index increased by 2.9% in July 2010 compared to July of the previous year and 0.3% compared to June this year.
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Russia bans grain exports because of fire and drought, sending prices soaring
Russia announced Thursday that it will ban all grain exports for the rest of the year, sending wheat prices soaring to a two-year high and raising the possibility of inflated food prices that could throw an already fitful global economy recovery off track.
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