The liquidation of LEO LT, the returning of the VST to the state, the structural transformation of the electricity sector – the Government names core energy activities. The annual report prepared by the Government of Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius points out that the previous Government was implementing the energy strategy that did not comply with the situation.

• April 16, 2010

Kygyzstan's deposed president, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, has flown from his stronghold in the southern city of Jalalabad to neighboring Kazakhstan. Bakiyev was overthrown in a civil uprising last week.

• April 16, 2010

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday that he and Barack Obama have "changed the atmosphere" in Russian-U.S. ties, but demanded more American support on issues from the economy to Afghan drugs.

• April 15, 2010

An American envoy is holding talks in Bishkek with the leadership that replaced Kyrgyzstan’s president last week and has now stripped him of his immunity, APA reports quoting “The Voice of America”.

• April 15, 2010

Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Romania signed a memorandum of understanding to transport Azeri LNG to the European Union through a project that could come online sooner than the Nabucco gas pipeline.

• April 15, 2010

To better understand the geopolitical dynamic of upheaval in the remote central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan, it is instructive to look to Georgia, 2500 kilometres and five national borders to the west.

• April 15, 2010

The presidents of the USA and Ukraine, Barack Obama and Viktor Yanukovich, discussed on Monday issues of energy security and cooperation in that sphere.

• April 15, 2010

Chinese President Hu Jintao met Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama here on Monday to exchange views on China-Japan relations and other issues of common interest.

• April 15, 2010