Ukraine's natural gas shipper said that April marks the start of a break from Russia as more supplies start coming in from nearby Poland.

• Date: 01.04.2013  |  Published on EGF: 01.04.2013  |  Energy  |  from upi.com

The Iranian Embassy in Baku says Tehran has nothing to do with a new radio station broadcasting in the Talysh language from Azerbaijan's breakaway territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.

• Date: 29.03.2013  |  Published on EGF: 29.03.2013  |  External Relations  |  from rferl.org

Russia said on Friday that heightened military activity near North Korea was slipping into a "vicious cycle" that could get out of control, implicitly criticizing U.S. bomber flights that followed threats from Pyongyang.

• Date: 29.03.2013  |  Published on EGF: 29.03.2013  |  External Relations  |  from reuters.com

Russia's gas giant Gazprom expects to reach an agreement on the price of gas to be supplied to China via the eastern route in June, and sign a deal by the end of this year, Gazprom chairman Viktor Zubkov said in the full version of a TV interview with Rossiya 24 broadcast on Wednesday.

• Date: 28.03.2013  |  Published on EGF: 28.03.2013  |  Energy  |  from baltic-course.com

Leaders from the BRICS group of emerging economies have made little progress on establishing a new development bank to counterbalance Western-dominated institutions such as the World Bank.

• Date: 28.03.2013  |  Published on EGF: 28.03.2013  |  External Relations  |  from rferl.org

The US has flown two B-2 stealth bombers over South Korea as part of an ongoing military exercise.

• Date: 28.03.2013  |  Published on EGF: 28.03.2013  |  External Relations  |  from bbc.co.uk

Ukraine and Russia will continue to search for a mutually acceptable solution for the establishment of a consortium to manage the Ukrainian gas transportation system (GTS), Ukraine’s Ambassador to Russia Volodymyr Yelchenko has said.

• Date: 27.03.2013  |  Published on EGF: 27.03.2013  |  Energy  |  from interfax.co.uk

Today in Astana, Kazakhstan's Defence Minister Adilbek Dzhaksybekov met with the Special Representative of the Secretary General of the NATO for the Caucasus and Central Asia James Appathurai and a new NATO officer on interaction with Central Asia Alexander Vinnikov, the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Kazakhstan informed Trend.

• Date: 27.03.2013  |  Published on EGF: 27.03.2013  |  External Relations  |  from trend.az