China and Russia enjoy a strong partnership that precludes any need or desire for competition, a senior Moscow official said at the conclusion of a state visit in Beijing on Tuesday.

• Date: 20.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 20.10.2010  |  External Relations  |  from chinadaily.com.cn

President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia announced Tuesday that he would attend next month’s summit meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Lisbon and left the door open to the possibility of Moscow cooperating with the alliance on a European missile defense shield.

• Date: 20.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 20.10.2010  |  External Relations  |  from nytimes.com

The global financial crisis is having a devastating impact on families in emerging Europe and Central Asia, with the risk of the region giving back a fifth of the poverty reduction gains of the past decade, according to a new World Bank report.

• Date: 20.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 20.10.2010  |  Markets  |  from worldbank.org

A building company was fined for using a false certificate to win public tenders in Bulgaria's Kozloduy nuclear power plant, local Commission For Protection Of Competition (CPC) said on Monday.

• Date: 19.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 19.10.2010  |  Energy  |  from People's Daily

An electronic sign along a busy street posts the outside temperature, the wind strength -- and the radioactivity level.

• Date: 19.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 19.10.2010  |  Energy  |  from nuclearpowerdaily.com

Russia sought to use a summit starting Monday to cement a greater role in Europe's security and foreign policy _ a shift that France and Germany embrace but that's tougher to sell to the rest of the long-divided continent.

• Date: 19.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 19.10.2010  |  External Relations  |  from azstarnet.com

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's deputy Monday said that Iran would be willing to address the dispute over its nuclear programme in forthcoming talks, even though the Iranian leader has so far declined to discuss it with world powers.

• Date: 19.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 19.10.2010  |  Energy  |  from mangalorean.com

Russian troops have withdrawn from a Georgian town which they had occupied since a bitter war between the two countries in 2008.

• Date: 19.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 19.10.2010  |  External Relations  |  from bbc.co.uk