Belarus withdrew Friday from a diplomatic summit meeting aimed at improving ties between the European Union and its former Soviet neighbors, complaining of “discrimination.”

• October 1, 2011

The Russian Federation’s ambassador to Belarus Alekhandr Surikov told reporters in the Belarusian capital Minsk that a draft Belarusian-Russian interstate agreement on the construction of a new 2,400 megawatt nuclear power plant for Belarus will be ready in October.

• October 1, 2011

EU leaders head to Poland today faced with the tricky task of re-energising relations with the bloc’s eastern neighbours. Democracy and human rights abuses look set to dominate the two day Eastern Partnership summit, with events in Ukraine causing particular concern.

• September 30, 2011

Kyrgyzstan's acting Deputy Prime Minister Omurbek Babanov says neighboring Kazakhstan has agreed to sell natural gas to Kyrgyzstan at a much lower price than Kyrgyzstan has been paying to Uzbekistan for gas supplies.

• September 30, 2011

Polish capital Warsaw hosts the summit of the European Union’s 'Eastern Partnership'

• September 30, 2011

According to the office of Romania’s Minister of Economy, Trade and Business Environment, Ion Ariton, “The representatives of the (Korea Nuclear) consortium voiced again their firm decision to participate in the project through the purchase of shares in the project company EnergoNuclear SA and through investments in building Cernavoda reactors 3 and 4.

• September 29, 2011

Bulgarian economy minister Traicho Traikov departs on visits to Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, after last week he held talks with officials in Azerbaijan and Georgia. He will participate in the Kazenergy 2011 forum on October 4, where EU energy commissionaire Gunther Oettinger will join him, from the Bulgarian Ministry of Economy, Energy and Tourism informed. Some of the topics of the forum will be renewables, Nabucco pipeline construction, development of electricity, gas and oil infrastructure and the possible transit of Kazakh gas via Bulgaria.

• September 29, 2011

Azerbaijani and British ministers and oil executives have discussed development of the Shafag-Asiman gas field and construction of a new oil refinery.

• September 29, 2011