Turkish officials say Russia has stopped construction work at Turkey's first planned nuclear power plant, amid a bitter row between Moscow and Ankara.

• Date: 09.12.2015  |  Published on EGF: 09.12.2015  |  Energy  |  from http://www.rferl.org/

Turkey has carried out new air raids on suspected Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq.

• Date: 09.12.2015  |  Published on EGF: 09.12.2015  |  Security  |  from http://www.rferl.org/

Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed the Finance Ministry to take Ukraine to court if the country defaults on its $3 billion debt to Moscow.

• Date: 09.12.2015  |  Published on EGF: 09.12.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.rferl.org/

Oil prices plummeted to their lowest levels since the depths of the global recession in February 2009 as investors braced for a flood of Iranian oil in an already glutted market.

• Date: 08.12.2015  |  Published on EGF: 08.12.2015  |  Energy  |  from http://www.rferl.org/

Russia says the deployment of Turkish forces in Iraq without Baghdad's approval is “unacceptable.”

• Date: 08.12.2015  |  Published on EGF: 08.12.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.rferl.org/

Russia says it has for the first time struck Islamic State targets in Syria with missiles fired from a submarine.

• Date: 08.12.2015  |  Published on EGF: 08.12.2015  |  Security  |  from http://www.rferl.org/

Kazakhstan has become the 162nd member of the World Trade Organization (WTO).

• Date: 07.12.2015  |  Published on EGF: 07.12.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.rferl.org/

Russia, Iran, and Iraq have quashed a plan reportedly being eyed by Saudi Arabia to lift sagging global oil prices through collective cuts in oil output.

• Date: 07.12.2015  |  Published on EGF: 07.12.2015  |  Energy  |  from http://www.rferl.org/