The Moscow Machine-Building Enterprise Salyut on the east side of town has put up a massive Soviet-style poster advertising its need for skilled workers. The New Year's party at the Chernyshev plant in a northwest suburb featured ballet dancers twirling on the stage of its Soviet-era Palace of Culture.

• Date: 25.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 25.12.2010  |  Security  |  from washingtonpost.com

French cable maker Nexans has won a EUR180m turnkey contract from Fingrid and Elering, the electricity transmission system operators in Finland and Estonia, respectively, to build a high-voltage direct current power link, EstLink 2, between the two countries.

• Date: 25.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 25.12.2010  |  Energy  |  from energy-business-review.com

It is believed in the West that India’s cooperation with the world’s leading powers is aimed at counterbalancing China. But this thesis is not entirely applicable to Russian-Indian relations. India and Russia, both highly influential countries, advocate a multipolar world and are against the domination of any one state.

• Date: 24.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 24.12.2010  |  External Relations  |  from rian.ru

Japan and Turkey inked a directive on bilateral nuclear cooperation, taking both countries a step closer towards the fruition of a 20 billion U.S. dollar tie-up for Japanese firms to build a nuclear facility in Turkey, a Japanese industry ministry official said Friday.

• Date: 24.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 24.12.2010  |  External Relations  |  from People's Daily

Russia's lower house of parliament will not be able to give its full approval to a U.S.-Russian nuclear arms treaty until at least next month, a senior lawmaker said Friday.

• Date: 24.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 24.12.2010  |  Security  |  from washingtonpost.com

Foreign Ministry of Turkmenistan told APA that President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov issued an executive order on December 23 to appoint Toyli Komekov as ambassador to Azerbaijan. The order has been published in today’s newspapers.

• Date: 24.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 24.12.2010  |  External Relations  |  from apa.az

Bulgaria is looking at opportunities to export electricity to Lebanon, according to the Minister of Economy, Energy, and Tourism, Traicho Traikov.

• Date: 23.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 23.12.2010  |  Energy  |  from novinite.com

Russia on Wednesday acknowledged that total nuclear disarmament was not possible in the near future, but called for a global consensus on the issue.

• Date: 23.12.2010  |  Published on EGF: 23.12.2010  |  Security  |  from zeenews.com