The radiation leak at a Japanese nuclear power plant following Friday's earthquake and tsunami threatens to hurt an industry that has enjoyed a rebirth since the Three Mile Island accident in 1979 and the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.

• Date: 12.03.2011  |  Published on EGF: 12.03.2011  |  Energy  |  from emirates247.com

Russia is demanding that Japan investigate a protest that took place outside the Russian embassy in Tokyo, and warning that it could open its own criminal case in the matter.

• Date: 03.03.2011  |  Published on EGF: 03.03.2011  |  External Relations  |  from washingtonpost.com

Russia will arm a group of disputed islands at the center of a growing debate with Japan with antiship missiles and attack helicopters, the Interfax news agency cited the military general staff as saying Tuesday. Russian P-800 rockets, known as Yakhonts, will be deployed on the islands, which Russia calls the Southern Kuriles and Japan calls the Northern Territories, Interfax quoted an unnamed representative of the general staff as saying. Russia also plans to send Mi-28N battle helicopters to the islands, Interfax cited the representative as saying.

• Date: 02.03.2011  |  Published on EGF: 02.03.2011  |  External Relations  |  from nytimes.com

Lithuania is in talks with Japan about cooperation on nuclear energy after Korea Electric Power Corp. withdrew a bid to build an atomic facility in 2010.

• Date: 28.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 28.02.2011  |  Energy  |  from baltic-course.com

Last week Kamitsuki Toyohisa, the Japanese Foreign Ministry counselor for European Affairs, said that the relationship between his country and Russia is "at its worst point in decades."

• Date: 25.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 25.02.2011  |  External Relations  |  from mediamonitors.net

The Russian foreign ministry on Monday summoned the US ambassador to Moscow over comments in which Washington reportedly backed the Japanese position in a simmering territorial row with Russia.

• Date: 22.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 22.02.2011  |  External Relations  |  from Yahoo! news

The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Thursday denied a report that Chinese and Russian companies had agreed to start a joint venture in islands that are disputed by Russia and Japan.

• Date: 18.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 18.02.2011  |  External Relations  |  from nytimes.com

Japan and India signed a free trade pact Wednesday under which the high-tech nation and the South Asian giant pledged to scrap tariffs on 94 percent of goods within a decade

• Date: 16.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 16.02.2011  |  External Relations  |  from Yahoo! news