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)
The EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the Armenian Foreign Minister reviewed the recent Sochi Presidential Summit at their meeting in Yerevan yesterday
30 January: Vladimir Putin's election campaign manager has cast new doubt on the continuance of the ruling tandem by suggesting that President Dmitry Medvedev should do more to support the prime minister's bid to return to the Kremlin.(Moscow Ti
Amongst the gloom of world economists Turkish officials were upbeat as they predicted 4% economic growth this year, and reported a swiftly increasing GDP per capita from some $3,000 in 2002 to around $10,000 last year.
29 January: South Ossetian Opposition leader Alla Dzhioeva, who claims to have won the Presidential elections held in the territory in November, has said that she will install herself as president on 10 th February, accusing the current authorities of fai
Problems between Turkey and France have spilled over to the OSCE Minsk Process.The Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davitoglu has called for the removal of France from the Group Chairmanship or for Turkey to be added as the 4th co-Chair.
29 January: Ali Akbar Velayati, the senior foreign policy advisor of Iran's Supreme leader Ayattolah Khamanei has denied that there are any problems between Iran and Azerbaijan. Speaking to Turan news Agency in Tehran Velayati stated that "Betwe