A suicide bomber attacked Moscow’s busiest airport on Monday, killing dozens of people and injecting new pain into a country already split along ethnic lines.

• Date: 25.01.2011  |  Published on EGF: 25.01.2011  |  Security  |  from nytimes.com

Belarus on 17 January concluded an agreement with Ukraine that will give it access to crude oil from the Black Sea while bypassing Russian pipelines. Ukrtransnafta and the Belarusian Oil Company signed the two-year contract for the guaranteed annual transit of four million tons of oil through Ukraine’s oil transport system using the Odesa-Brody oil pipeline to the Belarusian oil refinery in Mozyr.

• Date: 24.01.2011  |  Published on EGF: 24.01.2011  |  Energy  |  from neurope.eu

Negotiations in Istanbul over Iran’s nuclear program broke up on Saturday with no agreement between Tehran and the UN Security Council permanent members—the US, China, Russia, Britain and France—plus Germany (P5+1). Such was the gulf between the parties that no further meeting was scheduled

• Date: 24.01.2011  |  Published on EGF: 24.01.2011  |  Energy  |  from wsws.org

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko was inaugurated Friday for a fourth term. Sometimes called "the last dictator in Europe," Lukashenko now may see his rule stretch for 21 years.

• Date: 22.01.2011  |  Published on EGF: 22.01.2011  |  Markets  |  from voanews.com

Russia will cooperate in a range of energy projects including the construction of the Trans-Afghanistan (TAPI) pipeline, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai said

• Date: 22.01.2011  |  Published on EGF: 22.01.2011  |  Energy  |  from rian.ru

China may reach an initial agreement with Russia on natural gas pricing - a subject of great contention for years - by the middle of 2011, industry experts close to the matter said.

• Date: 21.01.2011  |  Published on EGF: 21.01.2011  |  Energy  |  from ce.cn

Alexander Lukashenko is due to be inaugurated for a fourth term as Belarus's president in the capital Minsk, after his election last month.

• Date: 21.01.2011  |  Published on EGF: 21.01.2011  |  Markets  |  from bbc.co.uk

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will meet with his Belarusian counterpart Mikhail Myasnikovich to discuss economic and energy cooperation.

• Date: 20.01.2011  |  Published on EGF: 20.01.2011  |  Energy  |  from rian.ru