A year ago, the Kremlin issued a stark warning: that growing competition for control of global energy resources could spark wars on Russia's borders, including those in Central Asia.

• June 3, 2010

Few other places in the world have seen such a will to cooperate at the governmental level and, most impressively, also at the grass-roots level and in business than the Baltic Sea region.

• June 3, 2010

NATO soldiers marching in Red Square on V-E Day; Moscow agreeing on a compromise resolution of the 40-year-old sea-boundary dispute with Norway; the sight of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin kneeling at the memorial to the Polish officers murdered by Josef Stalin at Katyn: These are a few glimpses of what a European newspaper described as a kinder, gentler Russia. But three questions immediately arise: Is this real? Why the change? And how to respond to Russia's new foreign policy?

• June 3, 2010

Tariffs for gas will rise 15 percent in Russia in 2011, while thermal heating tariffs will rise 12 to 14 percent, Deputy Economy Development Minister Andrey Klepach said on May 31.

• June 3, 2010

By Richard Galpin BBC News, Moscow Russia pumps oil from Kazakhstan to a Black Sea port for export A year ago, the Kremlin issued a stark warning: that growing competition for control of global energy resources could spark wars on Russia's borders,

• June 3, 2010

While its relations with Israel continue to plummet to new depths in the wake of the Gaza flotilla raid, Turkey is considering how to handle the US as Washington tries to balance its ties with Jerusalem and Ankara.

• June 3, 2010

The annual report of the Stockholm Peace Research Institute says that the world has never spent more on defense, in spite of the global financial crisis.

• June 3, 2010

To increase the ease of business in the Baltic Sea region and the three Baltic states, the bottlenecks in transport and energy need to be solved, European Commission President José Manuel Barroso said on Wednesday morning.

• June 3, 2010