Despite the impact of the global economic crisis on all of the economies within the former Soviet Union, averaging a 7 percent decline in GDP in 2009, defense spending has increased in each state with the exception of Belarus (which remained unchanged in 2009 year-on-year at 1.5 percent of GDP).

• March 24, 2010

Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, who is currently on a working visit to the United States of America, visited Harvard University yesterday afternoon where he gave a presentation on European and Trans-Atlantic security in the 21st century.

• March 24, 2010

Google has actually done it and made good on its threat to pull out of mainland China. Its mainland Chinese-language portal has started re-routing searches via Hong Kong. Beijing is furious.

• March 23, 2010

Indications by the US that it was open to Islamabad's plea for a civilian nuclear deal akin to the US-India agreement would further complicate the security situation in South Asia, experts told China Daily on Monday.

• March 23, 2010

U.S. and Russian negotiators are "at the finish line" in negotiating a major agreement to cut the number of nuclear warheads each side has deployed against the other, with just one or two issues left to resolve, officials said Thursday.

• March 20, 2010

The president of Georgia was in on the TV hoax that panicked the nation Saturday night with a fake news program that Russia had invaded, according to voices supposedly of station executives on a telephone recording posted on a Web site.

• March 18, 2010

• March 18, 2010

It's still not the time to talk about sanctions against Iran as the door of diplomacy is still open on finding a compromise over its nuclear program, He Yafei, China's ambassador to the United Nations Office in Geneva, said on Wednesday.

• March 18, 2010