This past weekend the world witnessed an event that until recently would have seemed inconceivable: A Russian head of state attended a summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

• November 26, 2010

Relations between Latvia and Belgium are good, however, there is still much potential for closer economic ties between the two countries, new Foreign Minister Girts Valdis Kristovskis said yesterday during a meeting with the Belgian Ambassador to Latvia Leopold Merckx, who arrived on an introductory visit.

• November 26, 2010

Russia responded angrily on Thursday to a proposal that would deny European visas to a list of 60 officials who have been implicated in the death of Sergei L. Magnitsky, a lawyer who died in pretrial detention in Moscow last year.

• November 26, 2010

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit on Thursday in the capital of Tajikistan.

• November 25, 2010

Russia and the EU should develop industrial strategic alliances in order to promote a "new wave of industrialization" in Europe, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said

• November 25, 2010

Hundreds of Chinese and Russian business representatives exchanged views on further deepening bilateral pragmatic cooperation in various fields at the fifth China-Russia economic and trade summit forum that opened in Moscow on Wednesday.

• November 25, 2010

Polish Energy Group (PGE) has expressed its interest in joining Lithuania's new nuclear power plant Visaginas project, The Lithuania Tribune reports.

• November 25, 2010

Kyiv-based Power-Trade Ltd., part of the largest Ukrainian private energy company DTEK, expects to start commercial supplies of Ukrainian electricity to Moldova from the second quarter of 2011, Power-Trade director Andriy Favorov has said.

• November 24, 2010