Russia has the European Union in a bind.

The bloc is divided between eastern European and Baltic Sea countries that see a new pipeline carrying Russian gas across the Baltic making the EU a hostage to Moscow - and those in northern Europe, most especially the main beneficiary Germany, for whom the economic benefits take priority.

• Date: 25.03.2017  |  Published on EGF: 25.03.2017  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com

Russia, Iran and Turkey need to convene more Syrian ceasefire talks as soon as possible to bring the situation on the ground under control, U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said on Friday.

• Date: 25.03.2017  |  Published on EGF: 24.03.2017  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com

Ukraine accused Russia of "state terrorism" after a former Russian lawmaker and key witness in a treason case against former leader Viktor Yanukovich was shot dead in broad daylight outside a hotel in central Kiev on Thursday.

• Date: 23.03.2017  |  Published on EGF: 23.03.2017  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com

Ukraine suspects the Russian military or its separatist rebel proxies were responsible for blowing up a warehouse storing tank ammunition at an eastern military base early on Thursday morning, Defence Minister Stepan Poltorak said.

• Date: 23.03.2017  |  Published on EGF: 22.03.2017  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com

French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen will visit Russia on Friday, a country whose leader she admires and which has been at the center of allegations of interference in the French election campaign via media outlets.

• Date: 23.03.2017  |  Published on EGF: 22.03.2017  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson plans to skip a meeting with NATO foreign ministers next month in order to stay home for a visit by China's president and will go to Russia later in April, U.S. officials said on Monday, disclosing an itinerary that allies may see as giving Moscow priority over them.

• Date: 21.03.2017  |  Published on EGF: 21.03.2017  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com

Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Tuesday a "fifth column" was plotting to overthrow him with the help of foreign-backed fighters, days before a planned street protest in Minsk against a new tax.

• Date: 21.03.2017  |  Published on EGF: 21.03.2017  |  Markets  |  from http://www.reuters.com

Russia and other world powers must move to limit Iran's growing military strength in Syria because it poses a regional threat, the director-general of Israel's Intelligence Ministry told Reuters in an interview.

• Date: 21.03.2017  |  Published on EGF: 20.03.2017  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com