In an interview with the newspaper Kommersant published on January 11, the deputy prosecutor general of Russia, Ivan Sydoruk, admitted that despite some successes in countering rebel activities in the North Caucasus, the government still faced serious challenges in the region.

• Date: 24.01.2013  |  Published on EGF: 24.01.2013  |  External Relations  |  from jamestown.org

The proposed price for the construction of two 1000 MW units of what was supposed to become Bulgaria's second nuclear power plant, Belene, was EUR 6.3 B, not EUR 10 B, as Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov claims, Russian state company Rosatom stated on Tuesday.

• Date: 23.01.2013  |  Published on EGF: 23.01.2013  |  Energy  |  from novinite.com

Georgia’s NATO integration may appear under doubt, President Mikheil Saakashvili said in his speech at the winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

• Date: 22.01.2013  |  Published on EGF: 22.01.2013  |  External Relations  |  from news.az

Armenian Defence Minister Seyran Ohanyan would not mind hosting a Russian radar station on its territory, News-Armenia reported.

• Date: 18.01.2013  |  Published on EGF: 18.01.2013  |  External Relations  |  from trend.az

Worried about dependence on pricier gas from Iran and Russia, Turkey is turning to its own coal. The country signed a deal with a United Arab Emirates company that will boost its coal-fired power capacity 67 percent.

• Date: 14.01.2013  |  Published on EGF: 14.01.2013  |  Energy  |  from themoscowtimes.com

Lithuania supports Georgia's political course on European and Euro-Atlantic integration, the European Club president under the Lithuanian Parliament Petras Auštrevičius said today.

• Date: 11.01.2013  |  Published on EGF: 11.01.2013  |  External Relations  |  from trend.az

Nabucco gas pipeline project's shareholders, Nabucco Gas Pipeline International Gmbh (NIC) and the partners on Azerbaijani Shah Deniz gas condensate field development and Nabucco project's potential investors (SOCAR, BP, Statoil and Total), have agreed on Equity Option and Funding Agreement.

• Date: 10.01.2013  |  Published on EGF: 10.01.2013  |  Energy  |  from trend.az

Turkey plans to acquire new oil fields in Libya at the Fizan block, the Sabah newspaper quotes Turkish Energy and Natural Resources Minister Taner Yildiz as saying on Monday.

• Date: 08.01.2013  |  Published on EGF: 08.01.2013  |  Energy  |  from trend.az