North Korea has agreed with the United States to suspend major elements of its atomic weapons programme in a surprise breakthrough that could pave the way for the resumption of long-stalled nuclear disarmament talks with the secretive state.

• March 1, 2012

China has welcomed North Korea's agreement to freeze nuclear activities in return for US food aid, a deal that raised cautious hopes of an easing of tensions under Pyongyang's new young leader.

• March 1, 2012

Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov, re-elected to his post in elections earlier this month with 97 percent of votes, has praised his country’s ties with Turkey.

• February 29, 2012

Tajikistan's ambassador to Russia says his country expects Russia to pay rent for bases it uses on Tajik territory.

• February 29, 2012

Military officials of Kazakhstan, Russia, Tajikistan and China discussed arms reduction at the border during a special seminar in Astana, the press-service of the Kazakh Defence Ministry said on Wednesday.

• February 29, 2012

ISSUE #7
02/27/2012
Russia has accused Ukraine of unsanctioned withdrawal of gas intended for Europe. The Ukrainian news and analysis website Lb.ua quoted Gazprom's CEO Aleksey Miller as telling Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev during a meeting on 22 February 2012 that Ukraine had allegedly withdrawn Gazprom's transit gas intended for Europe during the February cold snap. READ MORE

• February 29, 2012

Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov has praised his country's ties with Turkey, saying they amount to a strategic partnership, and called Turkey and Turkmenistan “one nation with two states.

• February 28, 2012

Russia and Kazakhstan set up the work on the agreement on western sector of the Russian-Kazakh state border demarcation, the Russian Foreign Ministry reported on Tuesday following the regular meeting of the joint Russian-Kazakh demarcation commission, held in Almaty on Feb. 13-17.

• February 28, 2012