Astana, April 04: Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev was re-elected in Sunday's presidential election with 95.5 percent of the votes counted, the Central Election Commission (CEC) announced Monday.

• Date: 04.04.2011  |  Published on EGF: 04.04.2011  |  Markets  |  from siasat.com

Russian and Israeli tourists can now travel visa-free between their two countries, yet U.S.-Russian trade relations continue to be stymied by a Cold War law censuring the Soviets for holding up Jewish emigration.

• Date: 04.04.2011  |  Published on EGF: 04.04.2011  |  External Relations  |  from seattletimes.com

During the consultations in Vilnius on 1 April, Lithuanian Deputy Foreign Minister Evaldas Ignatavicius and Russian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Titov discussed key bilateral issues, also the issues of interstate and inter-governmental treaties that are being drafted and the preparation for the meeting of the Lithuanian-Russian Intergovernmental Commission, reported BC the press service of the Foreign Ministry.

• Date: 04.04.2011  |  Published on EGF: 04.04.2011  |  Energy  |  from baltic-course.com

A reassuring word about the dangers posed to the U.S. and Europe by radiation from Japan came from an unlikely source Sunday _ the president of a Baltic Sea nation who, as a young Red Army medic, witnessed firsthand the horrors of the world's worst nuclear accident.

• Date: 04.04.2011  |  Published on EGF: 04.04.2011  |  Energy  |  from timesleader.com

The Council of Senate of Oliy Majlis of Uzbekistan (the Upper House of the parliament) adopted a resolution on the holding of elections of aksakals and their advisors to self governing bodies in May-June 2011.

• Date: 02.04.2011  |  Published on EGF: 02.04.2011  |  Markets  |  from trend.az

The United Nations' highest court threw out Georgia's complaint accusing Russia and separatist militias of years of ethnic cleansing in two breakaway Georgian provinces.

• Date: 02.04.2011  |  Published on EGF: 02.04.2011  |  External Relations  |  from nujournal.com

The first stage of a program to modernize Ukraine's gas transportation system with international participation will be launched in June, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Yuriy Boyko said.

• Date: 02.04.2011  |  Published on EGF: 02.04.2011  |  Markets  |  from rian.ru

Japan's nuclear crisis will speed the elimination of nuclear power from some European countries and render many planned projects too risky, ultimately increasing Europe's dependence on gas.

• Date: 02.04.2011  |  Published on EGF: 02.04.2011  |  Energy  |  from Yahoo! news