Moscow wrong to write off Western Ukraine as inevitably anti-Russian
Russian officials are making a costly and two-fold mistake in viewing Ukraine as a country permanently divided between a virulently nationalistic and Russophobic West and a Russian-speaking and pro-Moscow East, according to a senior analyst at the Moscow Institute of CIS Countries
Ukraine to plug $2 billion budget gap with IMF loan
Ukraine will use $2 billion out of its new $15 billion IMF facility to finance its budget deficit this year and will stick to tight fiscal targets imposed by the deal
Russia Unveils Privatization Plan as Largest US Investor Divests
Russia has announced the largest privatization program since the post-communist sales of the early 1990s.
Zilinskas: Lithuania’s position on construction of the Belarusian nuclear power plant has not changed
The position of Lithuania on construction of the Belarusian nuclear power plant has not changed, LETA/Charter 97 reports, referring to BelaPAN.
The EU position on energy cooperation in the Black Sea region
Günther H. Oettinger, the EU Commissioner for Energy in his speech at the International Odessa Forum (27.07.2010) underlined the importance of closer energy cooperation in the Black Sear region for the EU and the participating states. He stressed the EU strategic importance of efficient energy supply through regional pipelines.
Central Asia lifts Dalabai gold resource
Central Asia Resources Ltd has increased the gold resource estimate for the Dalabai resource in the Republic of Kazakhstan by 22koz to 1.9Mt at 1.56g/t gold for 97,075 oz gold and 21.84g/t silver for 1.3Moz silver.
Cyberwar Is Hell
While we obsessed over Russian spies, top diplomats were working to stop a greater espionage problem: the threat of cyberwarfare.
China and Russia sign power-grid agreement
British Prime Minister David Cameron wooed Indian business leaders Wednesday in a remarkable pitch aimed at revitalizing his nation's economy with help from the burgeoning Asian power it once ruled.
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