Azerbaijan attaches great importance to the project "Southern Gas Corridor" in terms of gas supplies for branch export routes, head of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) Rovnag Abdullayev said on Wednesday at a meeting with Austrian Federal Economy, Family and Youth Minister Reinhold Mitterlehner.

• October 13, 2011

The newly appointed Estonian ambassador to Uzbekistan with residence in Moscow Simmu Tiik has handed over his credentials addressed to the head of state to the Uzbek Foreign Ministry, the Foreign Ministry said.

• October 13, 2011

China and Russia are committed to expanding cooperation in economic, trade and energy, said a joint communique inked by the two countries as Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin made a two-day official visit to China.

• October 12, 2011

Russia and Belarus signed a contract Tuesday on the construction of the first nuclear power plant in Belarus, local media reported.

• October 12, 2011

Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said on Wednesday that he expected a "just and acceptable" compromise to be worked out with Russia soon over the price of Russian gas.

• October 12, 2011

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko agreed on Tuesday that Russia should build the country's first, $9 billion nuclear power station.

• October 11, 2011

Azerbaijan may give consent for construction of a new nuclear reactor in Armenia, director of the Radiation Problems Institute of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS) Adil Garibov told Trend on Monday.

• October 11, 2011

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin travels to China Tuesday for talks likely to focus on a gas deal mired in discord, a day after the two countries signed trade deals worth more than $7 billion.

• October 11, 2011