The United States and Russia are planning to enhance cooperation in nuclear reactor design, while maintaining joint efforts to prevent nuclear materials from falling into the wrong hands, officials said Tuesday.

• June 26, 2012

ISSUE #24
06/25/2012
The Ukrainian government has decided to purchase only 27bn cu.m. of Russian gas this year, the Lb.ua news and analysis website quoted Ukrainian Energy Minister Yuriy Boyko on 20 June 2012 as saying. Ostchem Holding Ltd, which unites chemical enterprises belonging to Ukrainian businessman Dmytro Firtash, will buy another 8bn cu.m., the minister added. READ MORE

• June 26, 2012

Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi will arrive in Astana on Tuesday on a working visit, Kazakh Foreign Ministry spokesman Altai Abibullayev said on Monday.

• June 25, 2012

European Union intends to sign contract with Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan on legal base of Trans-Caspian gas pipeline, materials on outcomes of meeting of foreign ministers of EU 27 member countries in Luxemburg reported.

• June 25, 2012

The EU is committed to support Central Asian countries accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), the conclusions of the EU Council on Central Asia say.

• June 25, 2012

Despite divergence on certain political issues like Syria, a leading Turkish businessman active in Russia expresses confidence that Turkey and Russia are set for a global, strategic and economic partnership in new markets, especially in the Middle East. Such bonds between the two countries can no longer be broken, says Erman Ilıcak.

• June 23, 2012

Alexey Miller, the Chairman of the Management Committee of Gazprom and Henri Proglio, Chairman and CEO of EDF held a working meeting within the framework of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum - 2012.

• June 23, 2012

India's Oil Ministry is adopting measures to provide insurance coverage for tankers transferring crude oil from Iran, in an attempt to prevent the US-engineered EU sanctions from disrupting Iranian oil shipments to the Asian country.

• June 23, 2012