Vladimir Putin headed the Russian delegation and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso headed the EU delegation. The agenda of the visit of the Russian delegation included three issues: Russia’s accession to the WTO; the EU-Russia energy trade; and the free visa regime for Russians traveling to the EU.

• Date: 07.03.2011  |  Published on EGF: 07.03.2011  |  Energy  |  from stopcartel.net

Amid the talk in Washington and London of military intervention in Libya, Tim Coles considers how the Anglo-American portrayal of Mu’ammar Gaddafi changed from bogeyman to friend when it became apparent that he would grant oil contracts to various Western companies.

• Date: 05.03.2011  |  Published on EGF: 05.03.2011  |  Energy  |  from scoop.co.nz

Two Philippine military planes chased Chinese patrol boats from disputed waters in the South China Sea on March 2. The Philippine military claims that the patrol boats were harassing a Philippine vessel belonging to a private oil firm conducting seismic explorations of the natural gas and oil reservoirs in the Reed Bank, located 240 kilometers off the west coast of Palawan.

• Date: 05.03.2011  |  Published on EGF: 05.03.2011  |  External Relations  |  from wsws.org

A police officer stopped at a traffic light in Dagestan's capital is gunned down from an adjacent car. A driver blows himself up at a checkpoint. The mayor has survived 15 assassination attempts.

• Date: 05.03.2011  |  Published on EGF: 05.03.2011  |  External Relations  |  from chron.com

Kazakh Ambassador to Turkey Zhanseit Tuimebayev has also been appointed by President Nursultan Nazarbayev as the ambassador to Albania, the Presidential Press Service reported.

• Date: 04.03.2011  |  Published on EGF: 04.03.2011  |  External Relations  |  from trend.az

The Chechen Islamist rebel leader who is Russia's most wanted man has issued an appeal for recruits for a "total war" against the Russian state, in a new video message

• Date: 04.03.2011  |  Published on EGF: 04.03.2011  |  External Relations  |  from Yahoo! news

China has announced a double-digit increase in its secretive military budget but insisted the annual outlay of more than 90 billion US dollars posed no external threat, despite concern worldwide.

• Date: 04.03.2011  |  Published on EGF: 04.03.2011  |  Security  |  from smh.com.au

Kyrgyzstan represents investment interest for Russia, press-service of Kyrgyz Parliament quoted the Russian State Duma Chairman Boris Gryzlov, reporting on the meeting of Speaker Akhmatbek Keldibekov with his counterpart in Moscow

• Date: 03.03.2011  |  Published on EGF: 03.03.2011  |  External Relations  |  from trend.az