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• March 31, 2010

Opening up Estonian electricity market to large consumers benefits the Estonian economy more than it harms individual companies, Estonian economy and communications minister Juhan Parts said in national television ETV’s morning programme on Wednesday.

• March 31, 2010

Russia signs a deal with the UN's nuclear watchdog, IAEA, to set up the world's first nuclear fuel bank of low-enriched uranium for countries that need fuel for civilian purposes, including nuclear power plants.

• March 30, 2010

Lithuanian Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin have discussed energy issues at the first meeting between the heads of government of the neighboring countries in 6 years

• March 30, 2010

India and the United States announced Monday the successful conclusion of negotiations granting rights to India to reprocess spent nuclear fuel, a new step toward opening nuclear commerce between the two countries, potentially worth billions of dollars.

• March 30, 2010

Russia's Gazprom is ramping up its presence in Asia to trade liquefied natural gas, oil and source carbon offsets, as one of the world's biggest energy players seeks to tap the fastest-growing region.

• March 29, 2010

The First International Gas Congress will be held in Ashgabat April 14-15, Turkmen Embassy in Azerbaijan says.

• March 29, 2010

Russia and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will jointly establish a nuclear fuel reserve bank, in order to meet the demand of developing countries for peaceful use of nuclear energy, said the IAEA on Friday.

• March 27, 2010