A Chinese firm is looking at investing in Pakistan's hydel power projects that would add nearly 9,000 MW of electricity to the national grid, a media report said Wednesday.

• April 6, 2011

Japan has asked nuclear superpower Russia to send a special radiation treatment ship used to decommission nuclear submarines to help in its fight to contain the world’s worst atomic crisis since Chernobyl, Japanese media said

• April 6, 2011

Tashkent will host the next EU-Central Asia meeting at the level of foreign ministers on April 7, a source in the Uzbek government reported.

• April 6, 2011

A senior member of the Armenian parliament slammed today Azerbaijan and Turkey for their  coordinated  efforts to demand the closure of the Armenian nuclear power plant. Speaking to journalists, Hrayr Karapetian, chairman of  a parliament committee  on defense and  national security issues form the Armenian Revolutionary Federation/Dashnaktsutyun,  said the ultimate goal of Baku and Ankara is to damage Armenia’s economic potential.

• April 5, 2011

Representatives of Ukraine and the European Union are due to meet in the EU headquarters city of Brussels for another round of negotiations toward reaching an association agreement between Ukraine and the EU.

• April 5, 2011

ISSUE #11
04/04/2011

The leader of the Fatherland party, Yulia Tymoshenko, believes that the current government policy makes Ukraine's integration into the European Union (EU) impossible. "If the Ukrainian government continues to destroy freedoms and liberties of people, ruin democracy, justice, freedom of speech - everything that Europe perceives as a foundation for reforming the life of society - we cannot count on either visa-free travel or Ukraine's joining a free trade area (FTA) with the EU or an association agreement between Ukraine and the EU," she said. READ MORE

• April 5, 2011

Prosecutor-General Office’s Controversial Actions Fuel Distrust in Gongadze Case – experts

The Gorshenin Institute conducted an opinion poll among Ukrainian lawyers to learn the prospects of the probe into the Gongadze case, including the legality of the Prosecutor-General’s Office charges against former president Leonid Kuchma. READ MORE

• April 5, 2011

Almost half of Ukrainians ready for protest actions - poll

The Gorshenin Institute held a telephone poll of public opinion between 25 and 27 March 2011 to find out the protest moods of Ukrainians. A total of 1,000 respondents aged over 18 were selected randomly in all regional centres of Ukraine, in Kiev and Sevastopol. Polling quotas are established based on respondents’ age, sex and area of residence. The sample error does not exceed 3.2%. READ MORE

• April 5, 2011