Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan and his Bulgarian counterpart Boyko Borissov agreed Monday to further bolster economic relations between their countries, with Tokyo calling for improved investment climate in the East European country and Bulgaria seeking the introduction of Japanese technology.

• Date: 25.01.2011  |  Published on EGF: 25.01.2011  |  External Relations  |  from mainichi.jp

A suicide bomber attacked Moscow’s busiest airport on Monday, killing dozens of people and injecting new pain into a country already split along ethnic lines.

• Date: 25.01.2011  |  Published on EGF: 25.01.2011  |  Security  |  from nytimes.com

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is supporting the expansion of non-banking services in the Kyrgyz Republic with a US$ 3 million loan equivalent to Microfinance Company Kompanion Financial Group for on-lending to micro and small enterprises (MSEs).

• Date: 25.01.2011  |  Published on EGF: 25.01.2011  |  External Relations  |  from finchannel.com

Belarus on 17 January concluded an agreement with Ukraine that will give it access to crude oil from the Black Sea while bypassing Russian pipelines. Ukrtransnafta and the Belarusian Oil Company signed the two-year contract for the guaranteed annual transit of four million tons of oil through Ukraine’s oil transport system using the Odesa-Brody oil pipeline to the Belarusian oil refinery in Mozyr.

• Date: 24.01.2011  |  Published on EGF: 24.01.2011  |  Energy  |  from neurope.eu

Negotiations in Istanbul over Iran’s nuclear program broke up on Saturday with no agreement between Tehran and the UN Security Council permanent members—the US, China, Russia, Britain and France—plus Germany (P5+1). Such was the gulf between the parties that no further meeting was scheduled

• Date: 24.01.2011  |  Published on EGF: 24.01.2011  |  Energy  |  from wsws.org

The United States Saturday urged Belarus to release its political detainees including the parents of a three-year-old boy who had been threatened with the loss of custody.

• Date: 24.01.2011  |  Published on EGF: 24.01.2011  |  External Relations  |  from Yahoo! news

Uzbek President Islam Karimov will leave for Brussels today up on the invitation of EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, Uzbek official media reported.

• Date: 24.01.2011  |  Published on EGF: 24.01.2011  |  External Relations  |  from trend.az

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko was inaugurated Friday for a fourth term. Sometimes called "the last dictator in Europe," Lukashenko now may see his rule stretch for 21 years.

• Date: 22.01.2011  |  Published on EGF: 22.01.2011  |  Markets  |  from voanews.com