Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov has praised his country's ties with Turkey, saying they amount to a strategic partnership, and called Turkey and Turkmenistan “one nation with two states.

• February 28, 2012

Russia and Kazakhstan set up the work on the agreement on western sector of the Russian-Kazakh state border demarcation, the Russian Foreign Ministry reported on Tuesday following the regular meeting of the joint Russian-Kazakh demarcation commission, held in Almaty on Feb. 13-17.

• February 28, 2012

Azerbaijan has filed a lawsuit against Armenia in the Secretariat of the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context (ESPOO) for failing to meet convention requirements while building a new nuclear reactor in Armenia, Environmental and Environmental Policy Department head of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources Rasim Sattarzadeh told Trend on Tuesday.

• February 28, 2012

Russia plans to repay its $15 million debt to Kyrgyzstan for the lease of military facilities until the end of February, Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said on Monday.

• February 27, 2012

Russia has modernized two radars in Syria and Lebanon that could threaten U.S. or Israel’s ability to launch a surprise attack against Syria and Iran, Israeli DEBKAfile portal said on Monday.

• February 27, 2012

Russia expects Iran to answer all existing questions from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) over its controversial nuclear program, which will confirm its right to peaceful atomic energy generation, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday.

• February 27, 2012

Vitali Lukyanchenko, Premier Azarov’s press secretary, said if Russia stops using Ukraine pipelines for pumping its gas, Ukraine will use them to pump gas from Azerbaijan and Central Asia to Europe.

• February 25, 2012

Azerbaijani servicemen will participate in the event on effective crisis management in realizing of terror activities in Istanbul, Turkey on Monday.

• February 25, 2012