Plans by Belarus to build a nuclear power plant 50 kilometres away from Vilnius are a worry for Lithuania, the country's foreign minister, Audronius Ažubalis, told EurActiv in an exclusive interview.

• Date: 15.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 15.12.2010  |  Energy  |  from euractiv.com

Many people wouldn't know that former United States president Ronald Reagan's signature phrase "trust, but verify" is actually the translation of a Russian proverb - doveryai, no proveryai. Two decades into the post-Cold War era, Moscow wants to reclaim the self-contradictory phrase from the American repertoire and apply it to Russia's "reset" of ties with the United States.

• Date: 14.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 14.12.2010  |  External Relations  |  from atimes.com

Turkmenistan has moved closer to opening another market for its natural gas reserves after signing an agreement for a pipeline to India via Afghanistan.

• Date: 14.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 14.12.2010  |  Energy  |  from bloomberg.com

Russia's controversial transport blockade of Georgia is threatening to inflict considerable economic damage on Armenia, the Russian regional ally that uses Georgian territory as its main commercial conduit to the outside world. The government in Yerevan is now scrambling to minimize negative consequences of the sanctions for a large number of Armenian businesses trading with Russia.

• Date: 14.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 14.12.2010  |  External Relations  |  from eurasianet.org

One of the first cables released by the website WikiLeaks was a May, 2009 cable regarding the delay of removing High Enriched Uranium (HEU) by the U.S. from Pakistan's Atomic Research Reactor-1 (PARR) near Islamabad. In 2007, the Pakistani government agreed to allow the U.S. to ship the unknown quantity of HEU back to the U.S.

• Date: 14.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 14.12.2010  |  External Relations  |  from foreignpolicy.com

India and France signed seven agreements in the area of nuclear energy technology, including one for setting up nuclear power plants in Haharashra

• Date: 14.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 14.12.2010  |  Energy  |  from People's Daily

Azerbaijan is rife with corruption and comparisons to European feudalism in the Middle Ages are hardly a stretch. But with vast reserves of oil and natural gas at stake, the US is willing to risk the embarrassment that comes with courting the country.

• Date: 14.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 14.12.2010  |  External Relations  |  from spiegel.de

Ahmet Davutoglu is the first Turkish foreign minister visiting Turkmenistan in nine years.

• Date: 13.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 13.12.2010  |  External Relations  |  from news.az