NATO soldiers marching in Red Square on V-E Day; Moscow agreeing on a compromise resolution of the 40-year-old sea-boundary dispute with Norway; the sight of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin kneeling at the memorial to the Polish officers murdered by Josef Stalin at Katyn: These are a few glimpses of what a European newspaper described as a kinder, gentler Russia. But three questions immediately arise: Is this real? Why the change? And how to respond to Russia's new foreign policy?

• Date: 03.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 03.06.2010  |  External Relations  |  from japantimes.co.jp

Few other places in the world have seen such a will to cooperate at the governmental level and, most impressively, also at the grass-roots level and in business than the Baltic Sea region.

• Date: 03.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 03.06.2010  |  Markets  |  from egovmonitor.com

A year ago, the Kremlin issued a stark warning: that growing competition for control of global energy resources could spark wars on Russia's borders, including those in Central Asia.

• Date: 03.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 03.06.2010  |  External Relations  |  from bbc.co.uk

A year ago, the Kremlin issued a stark warning: that growing competition for control of global energy resources could spark wars on Russia's borders, including those in Central Asia.

• Date: 03.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 03.06.2010  |  Energy  |  from bbc.co.uk

Russia and the Ukraine got an agreement on nuclear fuel supply for the local atomic plants this year.

• Date: 02.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 02.06.2010  |  Energy  |  from prensa-latina.cu

President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso has said that the issue of financial instruments to the construction of the Visaginas nuclear power plant will be considered as soon as the construction project is presented.

• Date: 02.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 02.06.2010  |  Energy  |  from baltic-course.com

Afghan security forces patrol ahead of Wednesday's start of a three-day peace conference in Kabul. KABUL—The Afghan government kicks off a national assembly in Kabul Wednesday, the first in a string of events that officials hope will chart a path to reconciliation with insurgents, seize the political initiative from the Taliban and lay the groundwork for...

• Date: 02.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 02.06.2010  |  External Relations  |  from World News

Russia needs to modernize its economy and shun protectionism to gain access to Western investment, the European Union said Tuesday

• Date: 02.06.2010  |  Published on EGF: 02.06.2010  |  Markets  |  from Wall Street Journal