During a visit to Tashkent earlier this week, Transport Minister Aivis Ronis urged Uzbek authorities to make more use of Latvian ports and logistics infrastructure services, including investments into these areas, and to expand the cooperation with Latvia by securing freight flows to and from Afghanistan, the Transport Ministry informed Nozare.lv.

• February 23, 2012

Aktobe province has great investment opportunities, and participation of more than 80 representatives of the Azerbaijani business at the business forum held in Baku on Thursday confirms their great interest in Kazakhstan's economy, president of Azerbaijan Export and Investment Promotion Foundation (AZPROMO) Adil Mammadov said on Thursday.

• February 23, 2012

Russia has warned a strike against Iran could have "catastrophic" consequences and urged leaders not to rush into any conclusions after this week's failed mission by UN nuclear experts.

• February 22, 2012

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai on the eve of Nowruz holiday will pay a visit to Tajikistan. The sides will discuss economic development of Afghanistan at a meeting of presidents of three countries to be held in Dushanbe, Mehr quoted Tajik Ambassador in Tehran Dovletali Khatamov as telling reporters on Wednesday.

• February 22, 2012

KAZINFORM Today Head of State Nursultan Nazarbayev has received Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan Omurbek Babanov, the President's press service reports.

• February 22, 2012

Bulgaria is set to renew on Tuesday its electricity exports that it stopped due to the severe winter conditions in the country.

• February 21, 2012

European stock markets rose yesterday on confidence that a new bailout for Greece will finally be approved while sentiment got a boost from the latest Chinese move to ease credit.

• February 21, 2012

ISSUE #5
02/13/2012
On 9 February 2012, the Ukrainian parliament adopted in the first reading a presidential draft of the Criminal Procedure Code (CPC). The Ukrainian news and analysis website Lb.ua reported that the presidential draft of the CPC was registered in parliament on 13 January 2012. A group of lawmakers headed by presidential advisor Andriy Portnov has been working on it for a year and a half. READ MORE

• February 21, 2012