Romania asked Moscow for an explanation on Saturday after Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Dmitri Rogozin, reacting to being barred from its airspace, tweeted he would return in a TU-160 strategic bomber

• Date: 10.05.2014  |  Published on EGF: 10.05.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Turkey's president appeared to rule himself out as a potential future prime minister on Friday, saying a "Putin-Medvedev model" under which he might swap roles with Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan was not suitable for Turkey.

• Date: 18.04.2014  |  Published on EGF: 18.04.2014  |  Markets  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

The West should take strong action, possibly including sending NATO forces to Ukraine, if Russia tries to annex the eastern part of the country, Czech President Milos Zeman said on Sunday.

• Date: 07.04.2014  |  Published on EGF: 07.04.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

A surprise decision by President Mahmoud Abbas to sign more than a dozen international conventions that could give Palestinians greater leverage against Israel left the United States struggling on Wednesday to put peace talks back on track.

• Date: 02.04.2014  |  Published on EGF: 02.04.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday denounced as "villainous" the leaking of a recording of top security officials discussing possible military action in Syria to the video-sharing site YouTube.

• Date: 27.03.2014  |  Published on EGF: 27.03.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Turkey said on Saturday that Twitter was "biased" and had been used for "systematic character assassinations" of Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's government, a day after Turkey's ban on the site prompted an international outcry.

• Date: 22.03.2014  |  Published on EGF: 22.03.2014  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

China urged its neighbor Afghanistan on Saturday to embrace an inclusive political solution to its long-running conflict during a rare visit by a top Chinese official, who said the very security of his own country's western regions depended on peace.

• Date: 21.02.2014  |  Published on EGF: 22.02.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Russia's move towards a flexible rouble exchange rate may well prove a boon for the struggling economy, but foreign stock and bond investors should brace for short-term losses as the currency finds a new level.

• Date: 16.01.2014  |  Published on EGF: 16.01.2014  |  Markets  |  from http://www.reuters.com/