ISSUE #28
08/29/2011
On 29 August 2011, a Kiev district court resumed the trial of the opposition Fatherland party's leader and former Ukrainian Prime Minister, Yuliya Tymoshenko. It is noteworthy that the motion to release Tymoshenko has already been dismissed 12 times by the court. Additionally, the presiding judge turned down three requests from Tymoshenko's lawyer to allow her to be examined by a personal doctor and a nurse. Only doctors representing the Ukrainian Health Ministry received permission to conduct a medical examination of the former prime minister. However, Tymoshenko refused to be examined by them and demanded that her personal doctor be allowed to see her. Earlier, supporters of the Fatherland party's leader said that Tymoshenko's health had drastically deteriorated for unknown reasons. READ MORE

• August 30, 2011

President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė had a meeting with Iceland's Prime Minister Johanna Sigursdottir. They discussed possibilities for strengthening bilateral cooperation, NATO issues of concern, Iceland's eurointegration process. Much focus in the meeting was on alternative energy.

• August 29, 2011

Ukraine is seeking to buy natural gas from Azerbaijan and boost its own output to cut Russian fuel imports in five years, Kommersant-Ukraine reported, citing an unidentified official from the Energy and Coal Ministry.

• August 29, 2011

Kazakhstan has no plans to ban launches of Russian rockets from its space centre in Baikonur after an accident with Progress M-12M space freighter, the head of the Kazakh space agency has said.

• August 29, 2011

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has agreed to earmark some dollar funds from foreign exchange reserves, reversing its earlier stance, to partly fund the government's strategic wealth fund that will buy energy assets overseas, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said on Friday.

• August 27, 2011

India expects investments of 300 billion rupees ($6.5 billion) in renewable energy projects in the current financial year, the minister for renewable energy said Friday. India plans to add 3,400 megawatt.

• August 26, 2011

The country is planning to expand its gas production at the Black Sea shelf as well as to develop shale gas production with the help of foreign partners.

• August 26, 2011

China is increasingly focused on naval power and has invested in hi-tech weaponry that will extend its reach in the Pacific and beyond, the Pentagon said.

• August 25, 2011