Kyrgyzstan votes in a crucial election on Sunday which interim leaders hope will help unite the country but opponents fear could trigger more violence and leave the south vulnerable to ethnic extremists and militant Islamists, APA reports quoting “Reuters”.

• Date: 07.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 07.10.2010  |  Markets  |  from apa.az

Latvia's prime minister said on Wednesday a cooperation deal with an opposition party backed by the country's large Russian-speaking minority would not lead to the party joining the government.

• Date: 07.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 07.10.2010  |  External Relations  |  from reuters.com

Georgia's prime minister said Wednesday that his country will not support Russia's membership in the World Trade Organization unless Moscow allows Georgian customs officials to operate in two disputed territories allied with Russia

• Date: 07.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 07.10.2010  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.washingtonpost.com/

Great prospects exist for the cooperation between Russia and China with two-way trade on the rise and high-tech exchange ever increasing, Artem Volynets, a member of the Board of Directors of the RusAl aluminum company, told Xinhua on Wednesday.

• Date: 07.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 07.10.2010  |  External Relations  |  from People's Daily

In the 1960s, American political scientists became fascinated with political modernization in Turkey and Japan.

• Date: 06.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 06.10.2010  |  Energy  |  from npr.org

Environmental group Greenpeace sharply criticised Swiss power stations Tuesday for using nuclear fuel from a Russian reprocessing centre at Mayak, claiming it was one of the world's most polluted.

• Date: 06.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 06.10.2010  |  Energy  |  from france24.com

Developing a Nato cyber-war capability and French opposition to joint nuclear planning are emerging as the main bones of contention in the debate on a new Nato "Strategic Concept," to be adopted next month.

• Date: 06.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 06.10.2010  |  Security  |  from euobserver.com

Amidst the latest flare-up in the centuries-old Sino-Japanese spat, Beijing made an unexpected move last month when it halted exports of a little-known commodity group, "rare earth metals," to Japan.

• Date: 06.10.2010  |  Published on EGF: 06.10.2010  |  Energy  |  from cnn.com