Kyrgyz Finance Minister Melis Mambetzhanov and Turkey's Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan Nejat Akcal signed an agreement on allocating $ 10 million grant to Kyrgyzstan.

• October 28, 2011

Russia's navy on Friday successfully test-fired an advanced ballistic missile, the weapon the government hopes will be the future of its nuclear arsenal, the Defense Military said.

• October 28, 2011

Italy and Serbia signed a strategic partnership on renewable energy in Rome on Tuesday. The goal is for Italian companies to produce hydroelectric power in Serbia and export it to Italy via Montenegro.

• October 27, 2011

Russia has reaffirmed its stated commitment to help Armenia build a new nuclear plant, while cautioning that the ambitious and expensive project will not be easy to implement.

• October 27, 2011

Armenian capital city Yerevan hosted today the 12-th meeting of the CIS Commission for Use of Nuclear Energy for Peaceful Purposes and also a meeting of international working groups.

• October 27, 2011

According to the Tajik MFA information department, Tajik Foreign Minister Hamrokhon Zarifi and Mr. Stephen Nellen, Swiss Ambassador to Tajikistan (with residence in Astana), signed a number of documents on bilateral cooperation between Tajikistan and Switzerland.

• October 26, 2011

Ahead of a Russian visit of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in December “privileged strategic partnership” between Moscow and New Delhi faced serious problems, the Kommersant writes. The project to build a nuclear power plant involving Russian specialists in Kudankulam is under threat over the protests of local residents.

• October 26, 2011

Over the past eight months of 2011, more than one and a half billion litas flowed outside Lithuania. The country has to take action to reduce its dependence on imports and encourage exports to stop the emigration of money, an economist with Nordea Bank Lietuva says.

• October 26, 2011