Russia responded angrily on Thursday to a proposal that would deny European visas to a list of 60 officials who have been implicated in the death of Sergei L. Magnitsky, a lawyer who died in pretrial detention in Moscow last year.

• Date: 26.11.2010  |  Published on EGF: 26.11.2010  |  External Relations  |  from nytimes.com

Relations between Latvia and Belgium are good, however, there is still much potential for closer economic ties between the two countries, new Foreign Minister Girts Valdis Kristovskis said yesterday during a meeting with the Belgian Ambassador to Latvia Leopold Merckx, who arrived on an introductory visit.

• Date: 26.11.2010  |  Published on EGF: 26.11.2010  |  External Relations  |  from baltic-course.com

This past weekend the world witnessed an event that until recently would have seemed inconceivable: A Russian head of state attended a summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

• Date: 26.11.2010  |  Published on EGF: 26.11.2010  |  External Relations  |  from opednews.com

Turkish President Abdullah Gul said Thursday that his country is firmly committed to pushing on with normalising ties with Armenia after nearly a century of bitterness over World War I-era massacres.

• Date: 26.11.2010  |  Published on EGF: 26.11.2010  |  External Relations  |  from Yahoo! news

Polish Energy Group (PGE) has expressed its interest in joining Lithuania's new nuclear power plant Visaginas project, The Lithuania Tribune reports.

• Date: 25.11.2010  |  Published on EGF: 25.11.2010  |  External Relations  |  from baltic-course.com

Hundreds of Chinese and Russian business representatives exchanged views on further deepening bilateral pragmatic cooperation in various fields at the fifth China-Russia economic and trade summit forum that opened in Moscow on Wednesday.

• Date: 25.11.2010  |  Published on EGF: 25.11.2010  |  External Relations  |  from People's Daily

Russia and the EU should develop industrial strategic alliances in order to promote a "new wave of industrialization" in Europe, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said

• Date: 25.11.2010  |  Published on EGF: 25.11.2010  |  External Relations  |  from trend.az

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit on Thursday in the capital of Tajikistan.

• Date: 25.11.2010  |  Published on EGF: 25.11.2010  |  External Relations  |  from rian.ru