Negotiations on tariffs for electricity with the Russian company Inter RAO are underway and a statement will be made in the coming days, Georgian Energy Minister Kakha Kaladze said on Tuesday.

• December 11, 2012

Access to the website of RFE/RL's Tajik service, Radio Ozodi, has been blocked in Tajikistan since last night, only days after authorities blocked Facebook inside the country.

• December 1, 2012

Russia is not delivering "destabilizing weapons" to Syria, even though there was no UN embargo in place, said the head of Russia's Presidential Administration on Friday.

• December 1, 2012

North Korea is to carry out its second rocket launch of 2012 as its youthful leader Kim Jong-un flexes his muscles a year after his father's death, in a move that will likely heighten diplomatic tensions and draw criticism from Washington.

• December 1, 2012

Azerbaijan and Argentina are interested in joint cooperation in agricultural sector, Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries of Argentina Norberto Yauhar said at the meeting with Azerbaijani Minister of Agriculture Ismat Abasov, APA-Economics reports.

• November 27, 2012

Turkey is yet to give up on a project to construct a nuclear power plant just several kilometers away from its border with Bulgaria, a Turkish official has suggested.

• November 24, 2012

Armenian former Foreign Minister, Chairman of the Heritage party Raffi Hovhannisyan has today tried to prevent the seventh session of the General Assembly of the International Forum of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP), held in Baku.

• November 23, 2012

According to the Azerbaijani MFA, during the meeting Deputy Foreign Minister Khalaf Khalafov informed the Head of Eastern Neighbourhood Policy Department of the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry Edminas Bagdonas that Azerbaijan is a reliable partner of Lithuania and the European Union in the field of security and energy security.

• November 23, 2012