Russia is waiting for an invitation to participate in the construction of a power transmission system from Central Asia to South Asia, and it is ready to invest into the project hundreds of millions of dollars, President Dmitry Medvedev said after a meeting with his counterparts from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan.

• September 2, 2011

A deal for Turkey’s first nuclear plant to be built by Russia’s Atomstroyexport will make the country more dependent on Russia, a US diplomat says in a leaked cable

• September 2, 2011

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