Bulgaria and Russia have started negotiations on their claims for one another over delayed payments for equipment for the Belene nuclear power plant, parallel to the general talks on the fate of the troubled project.

• August 10, 2011

Turkmenistan will begin exporting natural gas from its Caspian Sea wells, Turkmenistan.ru reported August 7. Yagshigeldy Kakayev, director of the State Agency for Management and Use of Hydrocarbon Resources, announced the pending export at a cabinet meeting.

• August 9, 2011

Russia and Georgia, whose relations have been fraught after a war three years ago, should expand dialogue beyond talks over Russia’s bid to join the World Trade Organization, The International Crisis Group said.

• August 9, 2011

During an informal meeting of Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Azubalis and Governor of Kaliningrad Region Nikolai Tsukanov visiting Lithuania the key issues of cooperation between Lithuania and the Kaliningrad Region of the Russian Federation.

• August 9, 2011

Atomic Energy Commission, had just returned from a visit to India and Pakistan and described two fledgling nations on the verge of another war over Kashmir.

• August 8, 2011

Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi expressed satisfaction over conditions of Bushehr nuclear power plant, ISNA reported.

• August 8, 2011

Ambassador of Germany to Kyrgyzstan Gudrun Sraga presented copies of credentials to Kyrgyz Foreign Minister Ruslan Kazakbaev, reported the Foreign Ministry's press service.

• August 8, 2011

In an interview Friday that was timed to the third anniversary of Russia’s war with Georgia, President Dmitri A. Medvedev said top United States officials played a key role in events that touched off the war, and offered a withering assessment of a recent Senate resolution on Georgia’s behalf, which he said reflected “the personal tastes of certain elderly members of the Senate.”

• August 6, 2011