Relations between Latvia and Belgium are good, however, there is still much potential for closer economic ties between the two countries, new Foreign Minister Girts Valdis Kristovskis said yesterday during a meeting with the Belgian Ambassador to Latvia Leopold Merckx, who arrived on an introductory visit.

• November 26, 2010

Hundreds of Chinese and Russian business representatives exchanged views on further deepening bilateral pragmatic cooperation in various fields at the fifth China-Russia economic and trade summit forum that opened in Moscow on Wednesday.

• November 25, 2010

Polish Energy Group (PGE) has expressed its interest in joining Lithuania's new nuclear power plant Visaginas project, The Lithuania Tribune reports.

• November 25, 2010

Russia and the EU should develop industrial strategic alliances in order to promote a "new wave of industrialization" in Europe, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said

• November 25, 2010

At a time when Kyrgyzstan is taking its first steps as a parliamentary republic, a number of politicians are squaring off against the system itself.

• November 24, 2010

Ukraine's capital Kiev has been the scene of mass demonstrations calling for the president not to sanction a new tax code. Critics say the changes are targeted against smaller firms and could lead to mass unemployment.

• November 24, 2010

President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan will visit Turkmenistan on November 24.

• November 23, 2010

nterfax citing Mr Vladimir Putin Prime Minister has said Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan reached consensus on the notion of equal profitability in fuel deliveries.

• November 22, 2010