Last week, with a neat turn of phrase, United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton captured the quintessence of the United States "reset" of ties with Russia.

• July 12, 2010

Poland has a new president, Bronislaw Komorowski, who was declared the winner of the second round of presidential elections. The results of Sunday's election bring the presidency more in line with the government, and could strengthen Poland's ties with the rest of Europe.

• July 12, 2010

While Washington and Moscow had their eyes on one another, Beijing stole the prize.

• July 12, 2010

Bulgaria stands to benefit a lot from the construction of the South Stream gas transit pipeline, according to Prime Minister Boyko Borisov.

• July 10, 2010

Baku, Fineko/abc.az. Azerbaijan has no need of building of new hydroelectric power stations (HPS) to increase of share of hydropower industry in power balance of the country 4-fold that became phenomenal progress in development of use of alternative and renewable energy sources.

• July 10, 2010

A round-up of the issue of the week as reported in the media. Pakistan's president Asif Ali Zardari, boxed in at home, decided it was time to go visitng his dear friends in China once more this past week.

• July 10, 2010

Latvia’s Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis (New Era) on Thursday had a meeting with the Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk; at the meeting, Dombrovskis informed about Latvia's move to the euro and the planned adoption of the European single currency in Latvia on January 1, 2014, as Dombrovskis' press secretary Liga Krapane told LETA.

• July 10, 2010

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arrived on Saturday in the Ukraine's Autonomous Republic of Crimea for informal Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) summit,

• July 10, 2010