It's hard when there are two countries battling it out for the most powerful in the world. In terms of renewable energy--like every other arena--China and the U.S. are fighting to lead the global economy.

• September 1, 2011

Energy ministers from the 18-member East Asia Summit will pledge to boost energy cooperation in areas such as improving nuclear safety and making emergency responses to energy supply disruptions when they meet on September 20 in Brunei, according to the draft of a statement to be issued by them.

• September 1, 2011

Baku will host a next meeting of an Azerbaijan-Kazakhstan intergovernmental commission.
Kazakhs ambassador Serik Primbetov said a large delegation led by the commission`s co-chair, Kazakhstan`s Minister of Oil and Gas Sauat Minbayev, will arrive in Azerbaijan for the meeting slated for September 29.

• August 31, 2011

The presidents of Ukraine and Poland, Viktor Yanukovych and Bronislaw Komorowski, discussed Ukraine's relations with the European Union during their meeting in Gdansk, the Ukrainian president's press service reported

• August 31, 2011

Russian electric power supplier Inter RAO UES does not expect Belarus to experience any more difficulties in paying for power exports until the end of this year, the company's CEO Boris Kovalchuk told reporters today.

• August 31, 2011

More than two decades after the end of the Cold War, NATO is an obsolete and harmful anachronism. It has morphed into a vehicle for the attainment of misguided American strategic objectives on a global scale.

• August 30, 2011

Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Fereidoon Abbasi announced that the country is willing to further develop its cooperation with Russia in building more nuclear power plants.

• August 30, 2011

ISSUE #27
08/22/2011
On 22 August 2011, the Kiev Pecherskyy district court continued the trial of the former Ukrainian prime minister and the leader of the opposition Fatherland party, Yuliya Tymoshenko. Earlier, the date of the next hearing was postponed in order to conduct a medical examination of Tymoshenko, whose health, according to her supporters, has started to deteriorate for unknown reasons. It is worth mentioning that Tymoshenko's lawyers did not manage to receive permission for her examination by a private doctor. READ MORE

• August 30, 2011