Russia has asked South Korea to stop a scheduled joint military exercise with the United States, hours after North Korea warned it will strike back if the South proceeds with the drill.

• Date: 18.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 18.12.2010  |  External Relations  |  from timesofearth.com

Turkmen delegation headed by Deputy Prime Minister Baymurad Hojamuhammedov will discuss issues of cooperation in oil and gas industry in Tehran (Iran) on Saturday, the official Turkmen source said.

• Date: 18.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 18.12.2010  |  Energy  |  from trend.az

There are at least three things most people know about Kazakhstan, even if its name blends with many other “stan” countries in Central Asia: The film “Borat,” oil and gas and the world’s largest space launch center.

• Date: 17.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 17.12.2010  |  Energy  |  from kyivpost.com

Lithuania intends to develop cooperation with Azerbaijan during its OSCE chairmanship.

• Date: 17.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 17.12.2010  |  External Relations  |  from trend.az

India is exploring a communications and telecoms security pact with United States, that will enable both countries share and standardize procedures to evaluate mobile phone networks, cooperate on encryption details and put in place a mechanisms to check softwares before it is used.

• Date: 15.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 15.12.2010  |  External Relations  |  from wn.com

Turkmenistan has moved closer to opening another market for its natural gas reserves after signing an agreement for a pipeline to India via Afghanistan.

• Date: 14.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 14.12.2010  |  Energy  |  from bloomberg.com

Russia's controversial transport blockade of Georgia is threatening to inflict considerable economic damage on Armenia, the Russian regional ally that uses Georgian territory as its main commercial conduit to the outside world. The government in Yerevan is now scrambling to minimize negative consequences of the sanctions for a large number of Armenian businesses trading with Russia.

• Date: 14.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 14.12.2010  |  External Relations  |  from eurasianet.org

One of the first cables released by the website WikiLeaks was a May, 2009 cable regarding the delay of removing High Enriched Uranium (HEU) by the U.S. from Pakistan's Atomic Research Reactor-1 (PARR) near Islamabad. In 2007, the Pakistani government agreed to allow the U.S. to ship the unknown quantity of HEU back to the U.S.

• Date: 14.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 14.12.2010  |  External Relations  |  from foreignpolicy.com