Japanese workers pushed ahead with efforts Monday to connect electrical power to the remaining disabled reactors at the heavily damaged Fukushima Daiichi power plant, as the World Bank offered an upbeat assessment on the impact of the nuclear crisis, saying the effects will be “short-lived.”

• March 21, 2011

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says that Japanese companies can participate in production of natural gas in eastern Russia.

• March 21, 2011

Bulgaria has confirmed its interest in buying natural gas from Turkmenistan, as well as its commitment to facilitate gas exports, the Economy Ministry said in a statement

• March 21, 2011

Poland said it would push ahead with its plans for a nuclear future despite the calamity engulfing the Japanese atomic energy sector.

• March 19, 2011

Since 2009, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, together with the relevant authorities responsible for nuclear and radiation safety and environmental issues has strived to ensure security of nuclear power project planned in Belarus and its safe distance from the capital of Lithuania, Foreign Ministry said in a released statement.

• March 18, 2011

Shocked into action by Japan's atomic crisis, European energy officials agreed to apply stress tests on nuclear power plants and Germany moved to switch off seven aging reactors -- one of them permanently.

• March 18, 2011

Russia on Thursday weighed alternatives for its ambitious South Stream gas pipeline project amid reports that Turkey was purposely delaying its approval of the route through its Black Sea waters.

• March 18, 2011

The possibility of sending Turkmen gas supplies to Bulgaria was discussed at a Turkmen-Bulgarian intergovernmental economic cooperation commission meeting that is underway in Sofia on March 16-19, Bulgarian media outlets reported on Friday.

• March 18, 2011