Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili recalled ambassadors from several countries, presidential administration reported.

• Date: 04.01.2013  |  Published on EGF: 04.01.2013  |  External Relations  |  from trend.az

Thanks to relative political stability and strong oil and gas prices, Russia's retail turnover more than quintupled from 2001 to 2011 and now exceeds US$600 billion annually. Data suggest that this sector is entering the steepest part of its growth curve. How will Russia's retailers face the challenges of this critical period of expansion? Will foreign retailers manage to get a slice of this growing pie?

• Date: 03.01.2013  |  Published on EGF: 03.01.2013  |  External Relations  |  from freshplaza.com

Bulgaria's Deputy Economy Minister noted that the existence of gas grid interconnections would give Bulgaria the opportunity to develop the gas market and to persuade the European Commission that it took the problem seriously.

• Date: 03.01.2013  |  Published on EGF: 03.01.2013  |  Energy  |  from features.rr.com

The guidelines will abolish electricity and coal contracts from 2013. Coal companies and power plants will be able to settle coal prices through negotiations, says an article in 21st Century Business Herald.

• Date: 03.01.2013  |  Published on EGF: 03.01.2013  |  Energy  |  from chinadaily.com.cn

A major Iranian partner of Huawei Technologies offered to sell at least 1.3 million euros worth of embargoed Hewlett-Packard (HP) computer equipment to Iran’s largest mobile phone operator in late 2010, documents show.

• Date: 02.01.2013  |  Published on EGF: 02.01.2013  |  Markets  |  from itweb.co.za

Russian leaders come to India for a few hours and go back with defence deals worth billions. Much like last year, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, was in India on Monday for less than 24 hours and the two nations ended up signing deals worth $4 billion.

• Date: 02.01.2013  |  Published on EGF: 02.01.2013  |  External Relations  |  from defence.pk

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia and the government will be more oriented towards integration into the European Union. Euro-Atlantic course of Georgia will be unchanged in the next year, Minister of Foreign Affairs Maya Panjikidze in an interview to "Rustavi-2".

• Date: 02.01.2013  |  Published on EGF: 02.01.2013  |  External Relations  |  from trend.az

Russia has concluded a challenging 2012 in India with three deals involving additional fighter aircraft and helicopters.

• Date: 31.12.2012  |  Published on EGF: 31.12.2012  |  Energy  |  from flightglobal.com