Estonia plans to separate Eesti Gaas' gas sales and transmission divisions in two years to reduce dependence on Gazprom, the utility's biggest owner and its sole gas supplier.

• October 25, 2010

The leaders of India and Japan were set to sign a sweeping agreement Monday on boosting trade while the visiting Indian prime minister pushed for a nuclear energy deal -- a touchy issue for Tokyo because of India's past atomic test blasts.

• October 25, 2010

Russian troops cannot be pulled out of Moldova. The statement came from the Russian ambassador in Chisinau Valery Kuzmin in response to a demand by Moldova’s Acting President Mihai Ghimpu.

• October 25, 2010

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazerbayev is set to this week visit Brussels and Paris, aiming to strengthen economic ties between the resource-rich central Asian nation and the European Union.

• October 25, 2010

Ties between Lithuania and Poland, which have been considered a strategic partnership for a decade and a half, are now described as “the worst in Europe” by Polish diplomatic sources, Lithuanian daily newspaper Lietuvos Rytas said on its website Friday

• October 23, 2010

In Tbilisi, memories of the bitter conflict with Russia in August 2008 are fresh, but everywhere too are signs that forces of change are pushing Georgia in new directions. Jonathan Wheatley takes the measure of a fluid political moment.

• October 23, 2010

European Union member Lithuania has rejected a proposal by neighbouring non-EU Belarus for a joint nuclear power plant amid competition between three similar projects in the region, an official said Thursday. "The Lithuanian president thinks there is no demand for some kind of joint regional nuclear plant," presidential spokesman Linas Balsys told AFP.

• October 22, 2010

When I gave my first public speech as Secretary General of NATO just over a year ago, I focused on the NATO-Russia relationship, because I believe it is crucial for global, not just European, security.

• October 22, 2010