ISSUE #12
04/11/2011

Another round of the talks on setting up a free trade area (FTA) between Ukraine and the EU has been held in Brussels. During the negotiations, the parties continued their discussion of institutional, general and concluding articles of an agreement. They also exchanged opinions regarding the prospects for reaching a deal on unresolved issues. Additionally, both parties reaffirmed their intention to complete the talks on signing an EU-Ukraine association agreement in 2011 and agreed to conduct the next round of negotiations in June 2011. READ MORE

• April 13, 2011

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) should combine their "huge potential" to continue enhancing their coordination on major issues of common concern.

• April 12, 2011

The Kyrgyz government on Monday approved a plan to join a post-Soviet customs union and common economic space.

• April 11, 2011

It is never boring at the World Russian Forum (WRF), a two-day conference of politicians, business people, and scholars from Russia and the U.S. who have been meeting annually since 1981 with the intent of improving U.S.-Russia relations.

• April 11, 2011

The International Monetary Fund, or IMF, has proposed a plan to allow the multilateral lender to directly tap financial markets to be able to help member nations in crisis, according to a document published Thursday.

• April 9, 2011

The world's best-known institute for handling bad bugs — Atlanta-based Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) — will help India strengthen its laboratory and manpower capacity to better detect pathogens like NDM-1 and virus outbreaks.

• April 9, 2011

A high-proifile mission from the IMF has praised Latvia's return to growth and said they are happy with this year's budget.

• April 9, 2011

President of Hungary Pal Schmitt offered Kyrgyz counterpart Roza Otunbayeva to pay official visit to Hungary, as reported press-service of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic.

• April 8, 2011