Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili recalled ambassadors from several countries, presidential administration reported.

• Date: 04.01.2013  |  Published on EGF: 04.01.2013  |  External Relations  |  from trend.az

Thanks to relative political stability and strong oil and gas prices, Russia's retail turnover more than quintupled from 2001 to 2011 and now exceeds US$600 billion annually. Data suggest that this sector is entering the steepest part of its growth curve. How will Russia's retailers face the challenges of this critical period of expansion? Will foreign retailers manage to get a slice of this growing pie?

• Date: 03.01.2013  |  Published on EGF: 03.01.2013  |  External Relations  |  from freshplaza.com

Russian leaders come to India for a few hours and go back with defence deals worth billions. Much like last year, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, was in India on Monday for less than 24 hours and the two nations ended up signing deals worth $4 billion.

• Date: 02.01.2013  |  Published on EGF: 02.01.2013  |  External Relations  |  from defence.pk

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia and the government will be more oriented towards integration into the European Union. Euro-Atlantic course of Georgia will be unchanged in the next year, Minister of Foreign Affairs Maya Panjikidze in an interview to "Rustavi-2".

• Date: 02.01.2013  |  Published on EGF: 02.01.2013  |  External Relations  |  from trend.az

Russia has concluded a challenging 2012 in India with three deals involving additional fighter aircraft and helicopters.

• Date: 31.12.2012  |  Published on EGF: 31.12.2012  |  Energy  |  from flightglobal.com

India's pet project to link south with central Asia got support from Russian president Vladimir Putin. During their talks in New Delhi last week, Singh and Putin agreed to unfreeze the north-south corridor through Iran within the next year. India has taken the lead role in pushing for the completion of this project.

• Date: 31.12.2012  |  Published on EGF: 31.12.2012  |  Energy  |  from pakistanaffairs.pk

Pakistani hardline party Jamaat-e-Islami's (JI) chief Azad Kashmir Abdur Rasheed Turrabi has said the discussions between Pakistan and India would not be proved fruitful until the latter took serious steps towards resolution of Kashmir issue.

• Date: 31.12.2012  |  Published on EGF: 31.12.2012  |  Energy  |  from yahoo.com

Around 135,000 tons of liquefied gas has been extracted and supplied to consumers in Turkmenistan since early 2012. The main volume is intended for export, the Turkmen Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources said on Thursday.

• Date: 29.12.2012  |  Published on EGF: 29.12.2012  |  Energy  |  from oananews.org