Bulgaria managed to negotiate special terms for the supply of Russian gas regardless of its abrupt withdrawal from the Burgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline and the Belene NPP energy projects, Russian media outlets note.

• May 18, 2012

Chairman of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus Vladimir Andreichenko met with Chairman of Majilis of the Parliament of Kazakhstan Nurlan Nigmatulin, Chairman of the Parliament of Kyrgyzstan Asylbek Zheenbekov in St Petersburg on 16 May, BelTA learnt from the press service of the House of Representatives.

• May 17, 2012

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has received the credentials of new Uzbek ambassador Sherzod Fayziyev. The ambassador presented his credentials to President Aliyev. Then the Azerbaijani President made conversation with the ambassador Fayziyev extended President Islam Karimov`s best wishes to the Azerbaijani leader.

• May 17, 2012

Robert O. Blake, U.S. Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian affairs appreciated the trans-boundary agreement on transit among Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan, CA-News reported.

• May 17, 2012

ISSUE #17
05/07/2012
The Ukrainian Prosecutor-General's Office (PGO) has issued a reaction to a statement by former Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko, in which she claimed that she had been punched by prison guards. The Ukrainian news and analysis website Lb.ua quoted Prosecutor-General Viktor Pshonka as saying on 4 May 2012 that the Kharkiv prosecutor's office had refused to open a criminal case over the alleged beating of Yuliya Tymoshenko. At the same time, he stressed that the PGO agreed with this decision. READ MORE

• May 17, 2012

ISSUE #16
04/30/2012
On the night of 20 April 2012, former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko was transferred from the Kachanivska prison to Kharkiv's Ukrzaliznytsya (Ukrainian railway) hospital. On 23 April 2012, she was transferred back to the prison where the ex-premier is serving her sentence for signing the 2009 gas contracts with Russia. The Ukrainian State Penitentiary Service explained that Tymoshenko's return to the prison was motivated by her refusal to undergo the treatment course that had been prescribed by Ukrainian and German doctors. READ MORE

• May 17, 2012

ISSUE #18
05/14/2012
On 9 May 2012, former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko was transferred from the Kachanivska prison to the central clinic of Ukrzaliznytsya (Ukraine's railway monopoly) in Kharkiv. The same day, a doctor of the German clinic Charite, Lutz Harms, who started to treat the ex-premier, said that Tymoshenko had ended her hunger strike. READ MORE

• May 17, 2012

Tajik Foreign Minister Khamrokhon Zarifi left to Washington on Wednesday, CA-News reported.

• May 16, 2012