A Russian court on Wednesday convicted two professors of a St.Petersburg university of handing over missile secrets to China, the latest in a string of espionage cases that reflected underlying tensions between Moscow and Beijing despite declarations of cooperation and friendship.

• June 20, 2012

Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan have traded accusations over a contested patch of oil field in the Caspian Sea.

• June 19, 2012

Talks over Iran’s nuclear energy ambitions have resumed between Iran and the Group 5 +1, in Moscow, according to a source, after earlier reports suggested that they had ended, RIA Novosti reported.

• June 19, 2012

US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin jointly warned Iran on Monday it must comply with its nuclear obligations, as talks with Tehran in Moscow ran into trouble.

• June 19, 2012

ISSUE #23
06/18/2012
The European Union (EU) wants to sign the association agreement with Ukraine, the EU commissioner for enlargement and neighborhood policy, Stefan Fule, said during a meeting of the Ukraine-EU interparliamentary committee in Strasbourg on 13 June 2012. At the same time, he added that the EU expected that Ukraine would act in the following three sectors: holding elections in line with international standards; solving the problem of selective justice; and, finally, speeding up the implementation of reforms. READ MORE

• June 19, 2012

On Monday Almaty hosted the first meeting of the Council on Foreign Relations of the Kazakh Foreign Ministry under the chairmanship of Foreign Minister Yerzhan Kazykhanov, Kazakh Foreign Ministry spokesman Altai Abibullayev said at a news briefing in Astana.

• June 18, 2012

Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan will set up a joint container shipping company, Russian Premier Dmitry Medvedev told a press conference in Saint Petersburg on 15 June, Kazinform has learned from BelTA.

• June 18, 2012

The Parliamentary Committee for International Affairs decided to cancel its decision as of February 27, 2012 to approve ratification of the agreement between Kyrgyzstan and Russia on cooperation in the sphere of oil and oil products supply, CA-NEWS reported.

• June 18, 2012