Russia is trying new tactics by taking Bulgaria to court in a bid to speed up construction of the Belene nuclear power plant, the first in the EU that is fully reliant on Russian technology. Dnevnik, EurActiv's partner in Bulgaria

• July 22, 2011

Top nuclear envoys from rivals North and South Korea agreed Friday to work toward a resumption of stalled nuclear disarmament talks, a significant breakthrough after more than a year of confrontation and escalating threats that have put the region on edge.

• July 22, 2011

Iran has no plans yet to cut oil exports to India over a payment dispute, the semi-official Mehr news agency on Friday quoted an oil official as saying.

• July 22, 2011

Ukrainian Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov called on Wednesday for significant restrictions of Ukraine's foreign debt level amid current economic instability.

• July 21, 2011

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has cautiously welcomed a Russian proposal for bringing Iran back to talks over its nuclear program.

• July 21, 2011

Russian company M/s INTER RAO UES, Has expressed its interest to invest in the small hydropower, coal power generation projects and to develop transmission lines in Pakistan. A delegation of the company led by Maxim Sergeev, called on Minister for Water and Power, Syed Naveed Qamar on Wednesday to discuss the investment opportunities in the power sector in Pakistan.

• July 21, 2011

The annual rate of growth has often surpassed double digits and the natural consequence is that its fuel consumption has also risen dramatically. Energy intensive heavy industry and the massive infrastructure construction have not only produced huge demand for steel, cement and aluminum but also for oil equivalents

• July 20, 2011

Belarus faces a desperate financial situation that is only likely to get worse. President Alexander Lukashenko thinks he knows why: his people don't work hard enough. He's using some old-fashioned ways of fixing that.

• July 20, 2011