Bulgaria's state-run power grid operator has tabled a lawsuit against Russia's state nuclear company Atomstroyexport over delayed payments on the planned Belene nuclear plant.

• Date: 06.10.2011  |  Published on EGF: 06.10.2011  |  Energy  |  from novinite.com

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has outlined a proposal to set up a so-called "Eurasian Union" of former Soviet states that would build on an existing Customs Union with Belarus and Kazakhstan.

• Date: 05.10.2011  |  Published on EGF: 05.10.2011  |  External Relations  |  from voanews.com

France's energy giant EDF has refused a Russian offer to build a nuclear power plant, Lithuania's Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius said after meeting his French counterpart Francois Fillon.

• Date: 03.10.2011  |  Published on EGF: 03.10.2011  |  Energy  |  from expatica.com

Turkey has decided that it will not renew for another five years a 25-year-old natural gas deal with Russia on the grounds that the energy-rich country’s supplier Gazprom has declined to discount the natural gas it sells to Turkey via the Russia-Turkey Western Pipeline, Today’s Zaman reported.

• Date: 03.10.2011  |  Published on EGF: 03.10.2011  |  Energy  |  from apa.az

The Russian Federation’s ambassador to Belarus Alekhandr Surikov told reporters in the Belarusian capital Minsk that a draft Belarusian-Russian interstate agreement on the construction of a new 2,400 megawatt nuclear power plant for Belarus will be ready in October.

• Date: 01.10.2011  |  Published on EGF: 01.10.2011  |  Energy  |  from oilprice.com

Belarus withdrew Friday from a diplomatic summit meeting aimed at improving ties between the European Union and its former Soviet neighbors, complaining of “discrimination.”

• Date: 01.10.2011  |  Published on EGF: 01.10.2011  |  External Relations  |  from nytimes.com

EU leaders head to Poland today faced with the tricky task of re-energising relations with the bloc’s eastern neighbours. Democracy and human rights abuses look set to dominate the two day Eastern Partnership summit, with events in Ukraine causing particular concern.

• Date: 30.09.2011  |  Published on EGF: 30.09.2011  |  External Relations  |  from euronews.net

A Russian-controlled company will soon start supplying 20 percent of the aviation fuel at the strategically vital U.S. air base in Kyrgyzstan, and it could eventually increase that share, officials said

• Date: 28.09.2011  |  Published on EGF: 28.09.2011  |  External Relations  |  from businessweek.com