Russia sought to use a summit starting Monday to cement a greater role in Europe's security and foreign policy _ a shift that France and Germany embrace but that's tougher to sell to the rest of the long-divided continent.

• Date: 19.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 19.10.2010  |  External Relations  |  from azstarnet.com

Russian troops have withdrawn from a Georgian town which they had occupied since a bitter war between the two countries in 2008.

• Date: 19.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 19.10.2010  |  External Relations  |  from bbc.co.uk

Angela Merkel and Russian president Dmitry Medvedev are due to arrive in the French seaside town of Deauville today for a summit on European security hosted by President Nicolas Sarkozy.

• Date: 18.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 18.10.2010  |  External Relations  |  from irishtimes.com

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez visited Belarus on October 16 promising President Alyaksandr Lukashenka that Venezuela could fill Belarus's oil refineries "for the next 200 years."

• Date: 18.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 18.10.2010  |  Energy  |  from rferl.org

President Hugo Chavez, on his ninth visit to Russia in eight years, says he wants to reduce dependence on oil and gas. No details on cost or time are disclosed.

• Date: 16.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 16.10.2010  |  Energy  |  from latimes.com

Gazprom CEO Aleksei Miller held talks with Prime Minister Emil Boc, Economics Minister Ion Ariton, and other officials, on Romania’s possible participation in Gazprom projects. Adriean Videanu, economics minister until six weeks ago and (unusually in Romania) an active proponent of ties with Gazprom, attended the October 13 talks in his new capacity as first vice-chairman of the governing Liberal Democrat Liberal Party.

• Date: 15.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 15.10.2010  |  Energy  |  from jamestown.org

Russia must do a deal with Georgia over customs controls on their internationally recognized border if it is to pursue its goal of joining the World Trade Organization, Georgia's first deputy foreign minister, Giorgi Bokeria, said on Thursday.

• Date: 15.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 15.10.2010  |  External Relations  |  from reuters.com

Ukraine's pro-Russia government on Thursday made public new charges of fraud against former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, citing a 2,000-page investigative report.

• Date: 15.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 15.10.2010  |  Markets  |  from earthtimes.org