Bulgaria may experience some power shortages and electric exports may also be affected, after a problem was detected with Reactor 6 of the Kozloduy nuclear power plant during annual repair works

• October 20, 2010

«Regional economy’s transformation in the Baltic Sea Area»”: that was the theme of a regular Round Table (RT) events organised by the Baltic International Academy, Latvian Employers Confederation and the International Web-magazine “The Baltic Course”.

• October 20, 2010

China and Russia enjoy a strong partnership that precludes any need or desire for competition, a senior Moscow official said at the conclusion of a state visit in Beijing on Tuesday.

• October 20, 2010

The global financial crisis is having a devastating impact on families in emerging Europe and Central Asia, with the risk of the region giving back a fifth of the poverty reduction gains of the past decade, according to a new World Bank report.

• October 20, 2010

A building company was fined for using a false certificate to win public tenders in Bulgaria's Kozloduy nuclear power plant, local Commission For Protection Of Competition (CPC) said on Monday.

• October 19, 2010

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's deputy Monday said that Iran would be willing to address the dispute over its nuclear programme in forthcoming talks, even though the Iranian leader has so far declined to discuss it with world powers.

• October 19, 2010

Iran and Armenia plan to start building two major hydro-electric stations on their border early next year, the energy ministers of the two countries said in Yerevan.

• October 18, 2010

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez visited Belarus on October 16 promising President Alyaksandr Lukashenka that Venezuela could fill Belarus's oil refineries "for the next 200 years."

• October 18, 2010