The start of the weeks-long process brings the controversial Bushehr plant another step closer to operation. Iran says the facility will generate 1,000 megawatts of electricity, but Western nations fear it is to be used to produce atomic weapons.

• Date: 27.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 27.10.2010  |  Energy  |  from dailypress.com

The start of the weeks-long process brings the controversial Bushehr plant another step closer to operation. Iran says the facility will generate 1,000 megawatts of electricity, but Western nations fear it is to be used to produce atomic weapons.

• Date: 27.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 27.10.2010  |  Energy  |  from dailypress.com

When I gave my first public speech as secretary-general of NATO just over a year ago, I focused on the NATO-Russia relationship because I believe that it is crucial for global, not just European, security.

• Date: 26.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 26.10.2010  |  External Relations  |  from sptimes.ru

In Tbilisi, memories of the bitter conflict with Russia in August 2008 are fresh, but everywhere too are signs that forces of change are pushing Georgia in new directions. Jonathan Wheatley takes the measure of a fluid political moment.

• Date: 23.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 23.10.2010  |  External Relations  |  from opendemocracy.net

When I gave my first public speech as Secretary General of NATO just over a year ago, I focused on the NATO-Russia relationship, because I believe it is crucial for global, not just European, security.

• Date: 22.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 22.10.2010  |  External Relations  |  from todayszaman.com

President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia announced Tuesday that he would attend next month’s summit meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Lisbon and left the door open to the possibility of Moscow cooperating with the alliance on a European missile defense shield.

• Date: 20.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 20.10.2010  |  External Relations  |  from nytimes.com

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's deputy Monday said that Iran would be willing to address the dispute over its nuclear programme in forthcoming talks, even though the Iranian leader has so far declined to discuss it with world powers.

• Date: 19.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 19.10.2010  |  Energy  |  from mangalorean.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Russian troops have withdrawn from a Georgian town which they had occupied since a bitter war between the two countries in 2008.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