Following are facts about relations between Venezuela and Russia: Russia is the world's second-biggest oil exporter and biggest gas producer. OPEC member Venezuela boasts Latin America's largest oil reserves and 7.9 percent

• Date: 03.04.2010  |  Published on EGF: 03.04.2010  |  Energy  |  from reuters.com

Pakistan should develop broad-based relations, particularly in energy projects, and improve people-to-people contacts with the Central Asian Republics (CARs), which are the centre of global attention, mainly because of their huge natural resources.

• Date: 03.04.2010  |  Published on EGF: 03.04.2010  |  External Relations  |  from thenews.com.pk

The Iraqi political grouping of Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr holds its own a referendum on who should be the country's prime minister.

• Date: 02.04.2010  |  Published on EGF: 02.04.2010  |  Markets  |  from bbc.co.uk

Aviation could prove a fresh field for diplomatic conflict between Georgia and Russia after an announcement by the de facto government of breakaway Abkhazia that it plans to reopen an Abkhaz airport with Moscow’s assistance. Georgian officials tell EurasiaNet.org that they expect the European Union to help Tbilisi block such assistance -- an expectation that the EU has not confirmed.

• Date: 02.04.2010  |  Published on EGF: 02.04.2010  |  External Relations  |  from eurasianet.org

NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen is expected to visit Baku, the Romanian ambassador to Azerbaijan told journalists Thursday.

• Date: 02.04.2010  |  Published on EGF: 02.04.2010  |  External Relations  |  from hurriyetdailynews.com

BEIJING - China's president will attend a nuclear security summit in Washington this month, signalling a fresh start between the superpowers amid a chill in relations over Beijing's unhappiness with U.S. arms sales to Taiwan and a

• Date: 02.04.2010  |  Published on EGF: 02.04.2010  |  Security  |  from dnaindia.com

Kyiv is ready to discuss cooperation with Moscow in upgrading Ukraine's gas transportation system, nuclear industry, aerospace industry and aircraft engineering, according to Prime Minister Mykola Azarov.

• Date: 02.04.2010  |  Published on EGF: 02.04.2010  |  External Relations  |  from kyivpost.com

<font size="3"><font face="Arial">These nations now find themselves competing against Soviet nuclear power science.</font></font>

• Date: 02.04.2010  |  Published on EGF: 02.04.2010  |  Energy  |  from russiaprofile.org