Russia wants to reach a compromise over Ukraine's debt to Russia and has made an "interesting" offer to settle the issue, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said on Monday.

• Date: 16.11.2015  |  Published on EGF: 16.11.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

French President Francois Hollande is under pressure to change policy in Syria's civil war and work more closely with Russia after a wave of deadly attacks in Paris but he seems determined to stick to his guns and escalate military action.

• Date: 16.11.2015  |  Published on EGF: 16.11.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister said the country must defend encroachment of its sovereignty in a veiled swipe at China's territorial claims in the South China Sea, as tensions flared ahead of a regional meeting that Beijing will attend.

• Date: 14.11.2015  |  Published on EGF: 14.11.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.rferl.org

Russia has banned incoming flights by Egypt's state-owned airline, a senior Russian diplomat and an official of Moscow's Domodedovo airport said on Friday, two weeks after a Russian jet crash in Sinai that Islamist militants claimed to have caused.

• Date: 13.11.2015  |  Published on EGF: 13.11.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.rferl.org

Two U.S. B-52 strategic bombers flew near artificial Chinese-built islands in the South China Sea this week and were contacted by Chinese ground controllers but continued their mission undeterred, the Pentagon said on Thursday.

• Date: 13.11.2015  |  Published on EGF: 13.11.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.rferl.org

Western and Gulf Arab nations have dismissed a Russian plan for peace and reform in Syria and said it will not form the basis for talks in Vienna this weekend.

• Date: 12.11.2015  |  Published on EGF: 12.11.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.rferl.org

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says that Washington remains at odds with Russia and Iran over Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s future as part of a possible deal to bring an end to the civil war in Syria.

• Date: 12.11.2015  |  Published on EGF: 12.11.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.rferl.org

Iran will double natural gas exports to Iraq starting in 2017 under a contract signed on November 11.

• Date: 12.11.2015  |  Published on EGF: 12.11.2015  |  Energy  |  from http://www.rferl.org