The new energy industry was recognized as one of China’s leading industries as the State Council issued the Decision on the State Council on Accelerating the Fostering and Development of Strategic Emerging Industries in October 2010. During the 12th Five-Year Plan period (2011-2015), China’s new energy industry will embrace significant opportunities to accelerate its development and layout adjustment.

• June 30, 2011

Jordan's peaceful nuclear program does not have any repercussion harmful to the environment, the country's atomic energy commission said Wednesday, according to the state-run Petra news agency.

• June 30, 2011

The 10th anniversary meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) came and went in Astana, Kazakhstan this month with, once more, much talk during the run-up about the organization engendering some sort of "energy club" and without any specific steps towards indicating what such an indefinite

• June 29, 2011

Many western analysts have described the post-Soviet tussle for Caspain and Central Asian energy reserves as the new "Great Game," except this time around, Russia is facing the U.S. rather than the British empire.

• June 29, 2011

India reiterated its desire to get “full membership” of all four nuclear non-proliferation regimes and said it was hopeful that its continuing engagement with these regimes and their member countries would be fruitful.

• June 29, 2011

ISSUE #23
06/27/2011
On 24 June 2011, the Kiev Pecherskyy district court started a preliminary hearing of the criminal case against Ukrainian opposition leader and former Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko. She is accused of abusing power, which allegedly took place when she signed gas contracts with Russia in 2009. READ MORE

• June 29, 2011

Gorshenin Institute conducted a round table called “The relations between Ukraine and Russia after Ukraine signs the FTZ agreement with the EU”, where experts discussed the future of Ukrainian-Russian relations in the event of Ukraine signing the Free Trade Zone Agreement with Europe.

The President of expert consulting firm “NEOKON”, Mikhail Khazin, thinks that if Ukraine enters a Free Trade Zone with the EU it can lose the Russian market and a number of its industries. READ MORE

• June 29, 2011

A 46-nation export control group has acted to bar states that shun a global anti-nuclear weapons pact from obtaining technology which can be used to make atomic bombs, diplomats and experts say.

• June 28, 2011