Ukraine began updating its Soviet-era gas transportation system, with the first stage being the reconstruction of the Urengoi-Pomary-Uzhgorod main pipeline from Russia. At the ceremony, which took place near Bohuslav in the Kiev region, Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said that most parts of the natural gas delivered from Russia to Europe goes through Ukraine and that there was a chance for the transit country to offer gas-pipeline advantages to its Russian and European partners.

• July 20, 2011

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday urged India to open up markets and resolve the questions surrounding a civilian nuclear accord that could be worth billions to US companies.

• July 19, 2011

The nuclear power plant project in Lithuania is a regional, not merely a national project (“Lithuania Chooses Hitachi-General Electric to Build Nuclear Power Plant,” EDM, July 19).

• July 19, 2011

Hannover, July 19 (Interfax) - Germany's decision to phase out nuclear power means that the country will consume more gas, but it will not rely on Gazprom to supply the entire increase, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said at a session of the Russian-German St. Petersburg dialog in Hanover.

• July 19, 2011

In view of the rising concerns of climate change internationally,rising energy needs of the growing Indian economy, favorable government environment and huge demand supply gap in power sector, the renewable energy sector will play an increasingly important role and throw huge business opportunities for investors, according to the market report on renewable energy released by Vijya Research & Advisory.

• July 18, 2011

The Japanese government has decided to suspend negotiations with India and four other countries on civil nuclear cooperation following Prime Minister Naoto Kan’s call for Japan’s eventual exit from atomic power, according to a media report.

• July 18, 2011

There is a certain understanding amongst Middle East politics experts that a game breaking event of cataclysmic proportions hits the region once every ten years or so. September of this year will mark the 10th anniversary of the unimaginable acts of terrorism which were perpetrated in New York in September 2001 by Arab suicide bombers.

• July 18, 2011

A Tajik security scholar has said Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan are working on a common strategy to address possible issues resulting from the planned 2014 withdrawal of the international coalition from Afghanistan

• July 15, 2011