Russia, hoping to keep its largest export market from collapsing, will give at least $10 billion to the International Monetary Fund to help support the struggling euro currency, an aide to President Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday.

• Date: 15.12.2011  |  Published on EGF: 15.12.2011  |  Energy  |  from salon.com

Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has received an official statement from Bulgaria confirming the Balkan country's decision to abandon the Burgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline.

• Date: 15.12.2011  |  Published on EGF: 15.12.2011  |  Energy  |  from novinite.com

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon started a tête-à-tête meeting in Kyiv on Thursday, Yanukovych's press service reported.

• Date: 15.12.2011  |  Published on EGF: 15.12.2011  |  External Relations  |  from ukrvideonews.com

Kazakhstan has worked out a deal to acquire 10 percent of the Karachaganak oil and gas field, the last major oil and gas field in Kazakhstan that did not have any Kazakh shareholders, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports.

• Date: 14.12.2011  |  Published on EGF: 14.12.2011  |  Energy  |  from rferl.org

President Serzh Sargsyan invited Italian companies to participate in the implementation of various projects in Armenia, including the construction of a new unit for Armenian nuclear power plant during a meeting with Italy’s president Giorgio Napolitano, Sargsyan’s press office reported Tuesday.

• Date: 14.12.2011  |  Published on EGF: 14.12.2011  |  Energy  |  from arka.am

India, Russia likely to sign many agreements New Delhi, Dec 14 : India and Russia are likely to sign over half a dozen agreements in sectors like defence, health, science and technology, tourism, trade, counter terrorism, maritime piracy and energy, including hydrocarbons, civil nuclear energy and renewables during the two-day visit of the Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh to Moscow beginning on December 15.

• Date: 14.12.2011  |  Published on EGF: 14.12.2011  |  External Relations  |  from newspolitan.com

The administration of United States President Barack Obama has launched a virtual US Embassy in Iran that, as expected, has been immediately filtered. Tehran sees it as yet another subversive initiative by Uncle Sam to sow divisions between the people and the Islamic regime that overthrew a US-friendly dictator and then took American diplomats as hostage for 444 days in 1979-1980, prompting the US to sever diplomatic ties with Iran

• Date: 13.12.2011  |  Published on EGF: 13.12.2011  |  External Relations  |  from atimes.com

Ukraine may have to continue paying a relatively high price for imported Russian gas in 2012, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov was quoted as saying on Tuesday, after Moscow indicated that talks on a new supply deal were far from conclusion.

• Date: 13.12.2011  |  Published on EGF: 13.12.2011  |  Energy  |  from reuters.com