The United States will continue to expand its civilian nuclear cooperation with Russia, including reactor development and security of radioactive materials, a top U.S. nuclear official told

• Date: 17.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 17.02.2011  |  Energy  |  from rian.ru

In the new Russia, Italy sees a sound political and economic partner, having given a careful reading of the socio-political events in Russia, accurately interpreting Russia’s complex geopolitical spheres of interest.

• Date: 17.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 17.02.2011  |  External Relations  |  from rian.ru

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kostyantyn Gryshchenko convened the third session of the U.S.-Ukraine Strategic Partnership Commission on February 15 in Washington, DC. The Commission's aim is to further strengthen the strategic partnership between the two countries.

• Date: 17.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 17.02.2011  |  External Relations  |  from newsblaze.com

Russia and Britain engaged in a war of words over the people power protests across the Middle East as Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov blasted Western support for demonstrations as counterproductive.

• Date: 16.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 16.02.2011  |  External Relations  |  from telegraph.co.uk

Ukraine aims to attract private investment in government-run coal mines to increase production, Deputy Coal and Energy Minister Ihor Popovych said. The government has drawn up investment plans for state mines in 2011 envisaging 5.5 billion hryvnia ($691 million) of spending, Popovych said in an interview published today by official government newspaper Uryadovyi Kurier.

• Date: 16.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 16.02.2011  |  Energy  |  from kyivpost.com

Four Central European countries that make up the Visegrad alliance on Tuesday made supporting democracy and human rights in Belarus one of its leading joint concerns.

• Date: 16.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 16.02.2011  |  External Relations  |  from monstersandcritics.com

Poland will probably import electric energy from the Russian nuclear power plant in the Kaliningrad Oblast which is currently under construction

• Date: 16.02.2011  |  Published on EGF: 16.02.2011  |  Energy  |  from warsawvoice.pl

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