3 February: Baku's Heidar Aliev International Airport was closed yesterday due to bad weather conditions.According to the Airport, the flights from Baku to Tbilisi, Doha, Dubai, Vienna, Khanti-Mansiysk, Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Tashkent, Istanbul, Bish

3 February: European clients of the Russian energy giant, Gazprom, have complained of unplanned cuts in gas supplies from Russia. Poland, Italy, Austria and Slovakia are among the affected countries. Gazprom is “confused” by the reports.

2 February: The price of Brent crude oil rose above $111 per barrel yesterday, gaining for a second straight session on fears that tensions between Iran and the West may escalate further.Parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani again underlined that threat yest

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1 February: EU High Representative Catherine Ashton Tuesday said she is "extremely worried about the growing harassment and persecution of journalists and internet bloggers in Iran." Ashton repeated the EU call on Iran to introduce a moratorium

1 February: Nearly 50 people including radical opposition leader Eduard Limonov were detained Tuesday in Moscow as they sought to stage a protest asserting the right to freedom of assembly, organisers and police said.(Agence France Presse)

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31 January: US President Barak Obama has praised Georgia's success at institution building during a meeting with President Mikhael Saakashvili in the White House yesterday. Speaking of the future Obama said that "anticipating fair and free elect

31 January: Russia’s energy giant Gazprom exported 150 billion cubic meters of natural gas to Europe in 2011. This is a 8.2% increase year-on-year, but lower than the company’s expectations. (Vedomosti)

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