Turkmen Balkan freighter with capacity of 3.500 tons renovated in the Volga-Caspian shipyard in Astrakhan was returned to Turkmenbashi port, Neutral Turkmenistan newspaper said.

• Date: 02.02.2013  |  Published on EGF: 02.02.2013  |  External Relations  |  from oananews.org

If Moscow goes to the Stockholm court to settle its $7-billion claim to Ukraine for the gas Kyiv failed to buy under the existing contract, Ukraine may set up a counter-claim for the gas Moscow failed to pump via Ukraine, Mykhailo Honchar, energy expert , and Maksim Alinov, legal expert

• Date: 02.02.2013  |  Published on EGF: 02.02.2013  |  Energy  |  from zik.ua

President Dalia Grybauskaite and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen discussed the overall implementation of NATO's plans to defend the Baltic States, reported BC the presidential press service.

• Date: 01.02.2013  |  Published on EGF: 01.02.2013  |  External Relations  |  from baltic-course.com

The controversy over Iran’s nuclear program seems unending as Tehran remains adamant to go ahead with the program. In the latest development, the UN nuclear agency, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has told member nations that Iran is planning to upgrade and speed up its nuclear program.

• Date: 01.02.2013  |  Published on EGF: 01.02.2013  |  Energy  |  from allvoices.com

Russian-Armenian negotiations on the new price of natural gas delivered to Armenia have entered "the final phase" and their results will be announced soon, Energy Minister Armen Movsisian said on Thursday.

• Date: 01.02.2013  |  Published on EGF: 01.02.2013  |  External Relations  |  from topix.com

The Georgian Foreign Ministry has held 13 plenary negotiation sessions to develop the text of an association agreement between Georgia and the EU.

• Date: 31.01.2013  |  Published on EGF: 31.01.2013  |  External Relations  |  from trend.az

RUSSIA has warned that any Israeli air strike against Syria would be "unacceptable" after the Damascus regime said a military research centre had been attacked by Israeli fighter jets.

• Date: 31.01.2013  |  Published on EGF: 31.01.2013  |  External Relations  |  from theaustralian.com.au

MEMBERS of Syria's Turkmen minority have joined forces with rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad's regime in a struggle they say is for democracy and revenge for years of oppression.

• Date: 31.01.2013  |  Published on EGF: 31.01.2013  |  External Relations  |  from heraldsun.com.au