The Kazakh Unified Energy System has recorded non-contractual power flows from Uzbekistan since September, Kazakhstan Electricity Grid Operating Company KEGOC said.

• October 7, 2011

Bulgaria's state-run power grid operator has tabled a lawsuit against Russia's state nuclear company Atomstroyexport over delayed payments on the planned Belene nuclear plant.

• October 6, 2011

This story by Igor Tomberg, Director of Energy and Transit Studies Center of the Institute for Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Science, professor at the Moscow State Foreign Relations Institute of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Strategic Culture Foundation expert, was published in International Affairs magazine.

• October 6, 2011

The Seimas speaker Tuesday started her working visit to Tokyo by meeting Japan's trade minister. During the meeting, Irena Degutiene introduced Minister Yukio Edano to opportunities for cooperation with Lithuania, called for signing the agreement on the elimination of double taxation.

• October 4, 2011

The European Union has invited Kazakhstan to take part in the Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline project, European Union Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said on Tuesday.

• October 4, 2011

Turkey has decided that it will not renew for another five years a 25-year-old natural gas deal with Russia on the grounds that the energy-rich country’s supplier Gazprom has declined to discount the natural gas it sells to Turkey via the Russia-Turkey Western Pipeline, Today’s Zaman reported.

• October 3, 2011

France's energy giant EDF has refused a Russian offer to build a nuclear power plant, Lithuania's Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius said after meeting his French counterpart Francois Fillon.

• October 3, 2011

Assistant Secretary Geoffrey Pyatt of Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs today stressed that U.S. and India are committed to keep the world safe from nuclear weapons.

• October 3, 2011