Much grousing about the expense of President Obama's India trip. This is silly and vindictive

• November 14, 2010

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will visit Bulgaria on Saturday to discuss the South Stream gas link and Russian gas prices amid competing projects to supply the fuel to the European Union.

• November 14, 2010

The deal was signed and hailed as part of a visit to Kyiv by none other than Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. But some fear Ukraine is far from certain of getting its own source of nuclear fuel and thus lessening its energy dependence on Moscow.

• November 12, 2010

Kazakhstan will finish the talks with the European Union and the United States on accessing issues to the World Trade Organization (WTO) by the end of this year, Kazakh Economic Development and Trade Minister Zhanar Aitzhanov said Thursday, Xinhua reported.

• November 12, 2010

A U.S. official said on Wednesday Russia was warming to the idea of cooperation with NATO on a European missile defence system ahead of a summit next week expected to seal warmer relations between the Cold War rivals.

• November 11, 2010

Foreign energy companies with operations in Bulgaria are weighing up options to restructure their businesses or reconsider investment plans in an attempt to address the sector's stalled growth in Europe amid lowering electricity prices and slump in demand.

• November 11, 2010

Finland has cleared the country's power grid operator, Fingrid [FGRDO.UL], to build a 320 million euro ($441 million) cable under the Baltic Sea linking it with Estonia, the government said

• November 11, 2010

Tajikistan has emerged after a bloody civil war following independence, to become a functioning democracy that is a model for the region.

• November 10, 2010