The crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant has created a domino effect that is fueling price rises for liquefied natural gas (LNG) and causing friction between importers and exporters.

• June 23, 2011

Kazakhstan's Senate was guided by the weight of public opinion in voting down a bill to send troops to Afghanistan, Speaker Kairat Mami said in Astana today.

• June 23, 2011

The first operation of the planned decommissioning of Units 1 and 2 at the Kozloduy NPP has started, the Radioactive Waste State-owned Company has announced.

• June 23, 2011

Mongolia's growing dependence on neighbouring Russia and China for fuel and power poses a major risk to its booming mining sector that investors need to consider, foreign business executives said

• June 22, 2011

The Russian Federation Council, the upper chamber of the parliament, ratified a protocol on Wednesday extending Russia's use of a military base in Armenia.

• June 22, 2011

Until the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant disaster in Japan, the Nabucco pipeline project was struggling with rising costs and political uncertainties. Now, as Europeans shun nuclear energy, EU plans to link the Caspian and Austria have gained new appeal

• June 22, 2011

China plans to create two economic zones along its border with Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan

• June 21, 2011

The European Union passed a series of stringent sanctions against Belarus this morning amid growing anger from the international community over the former Soviet republic’s increasingly pariah status.

• June 21, 2011