Leaders of Russia, Turkey and Iran convened at a security summit meeting in Istanbul on Tuesday in a display of regional power that appeared to be calculated to test the United States just one day before a scheduled U.S.-backed debate in the U.N. Security Council on imposing tighter sanctions over Iran's nuclear program.

• Date: 09.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 09.06.2010  |  External Relations  |  from seattletimes.com

Ukraine would like Russian banks to issue a loan for the construction of new reactors at Khmelnytsky and Rivne nuclear power plants, according to Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.

• Date: 09.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 09.06.2010  |  Energy  |  from kyivpost.com

Today, as we witness the rapid transformation of the global political and economic systems, it is time to reassess Russia’s economic relations with Arab countries.

• Date: 09.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 09.06.2010  |  External Relations  |  from themoscowtimes.com

The West has apprehensions that Ukraine may finally get under the Russian influence, analysts note. Moreover, apprehensions have been voiced in the United States that the "resetting" of relations with Russia results in the Washington's loss of influence in the whole post-Soviet space.

• Date: 09.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 09.06.2010  |  External Relations  |  from itar-tass.com

kraine’s new president is not a Russian stooge. But his country is in deep economic trouble

• Date: 07.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 07.06.2010  |  Markets  |  from economist.com

When Vladimir Putin traveled to Guatemala three years ago to personally promote Russia's bid for the 2014 Winter Olympics, he pledged the Games in Sochi would be "safe, enjoyable, and memorable."

• Date: 07.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 07.06.2010  |  External Relations  |  from Radio Free Europe

Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia began two days of talks Friday outside Berlin, with Russia asking Germany, and German companies, to help with modernization.

• Date: 07.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 07.06.2010  |  External Relations  |  from nytimes.com

By Richard Galpin BBC News, Moscow Russia pumps oil from Kazakhstan to a Black Sea port for export A year ago, the Kremlin issued a stark warning: that growing competition for control of global energy resources could spark wars on Russia's borders,

• Date: 03.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 03.06.2010  |  Energy  |  from http://www.bbc.co.uk/