The presidents of the United States, Russia, and Kazakhstan have hailed the success of a project to clean up a huge Soviet-era nuclear test site in Semey, formerly known as Semipalatinsk, in Kazakhstan.

• Date: 27.03.2012  |  Published on EGF: 27.03.2012  |  Energy  |  from rferl.org

Today in Moscow Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ spokesman Alexander Lukashevich has said that on 2-3 April Lavrov will meet in Yerevan with the President and the Foreign Minister of Armenia, on 3-4 April in Baku will hold talks with the President and the Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan. Already on 4-5 April the Russian FM is expected to visit Kyrgyzstan and then Kazakhstan.

• Date: 27.03.2012  |  Published on EGF: 27.03.2012  |  External Relations  |  from abc.az

Uzbekistan says it will halt natural gas deliveries to its energy-starved neighbor, Tajikistan, starting next month.

• Date: 26.03.2012  |  Published on EGF: 26.03.2012  |  Energy  |  from rferl.org

President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych met with Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Massimov on Monday, according to Ukrinform.

• Date: 26.03.2012  |  Published on EGF: 26.03.2012  |  External Relations  |  from inform.kz

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, and Tajik President Emomali Rahmon called for more cooperation during their summit in the Tajik capital of Dushanbe.

• Date: 26.03.2012  |  Published on EGF: 26.03.2012  |  External Relations  |  from mehrnews.com

Many Estonians view the philanthropy of the Russian state in their country as a deliberate effort to gain influence by creating ethnic divisions.

• Date: 24.03.2012  |  Published on EGF: 24.03.2012  |  External Relations  |  from baltictimes.com

Halfway into an ambitious four-year effort to safeguard nuclear materials from terrorists, President Barack Obama and other world leaders are lagging behind their self-imposed goals and facing renewed threats from Iran and North Korea. They're giving themselves a checkup at next week's summit in the South Korean capital, Seoul.

• Date: 24.03.2012  |  Published on EGF: 24.03.2012  |  Energy  |  from abcnews.go.com

A Turkmen delegation has recently visited Washington, which on behalf of President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammadov took part in political consultations between Turkmenistan and the United States, during which a mechanism for enhancing bilateral cooperation was worked out, the Turkmen government said on Saturday.

• Date: 24.03.2012  |  Published on EGF: 24.03.2012  |  External Relations  |  from pda.trend.az