The year 2012 was not a good one for religious pluralism in Indonesia. In a staggering six-month period alone, religious violence increased sharply, in particular violence connected to the abuse of religious symbols and closures of places of worship. In the first half of 2012, there were 179 criminal violations based on religion, the majority of them on Java, where the bulk of the country's Muslim-majority population lives.

Despite the attempts by Western powers to penetrate the Caucasus, Russia continues to exert unmatched influence over the region. In today’s Questions and Answers presentation, the CSS' Aglaya Snetkov outlines some of the differences between Moscow’s North and South Caucasus policies.

The Research Centre for Energy Management at ESCP Europe Business School London recently held an event which examined the impact of Russia's actions against Yukos Oil Corporation OJSC and the impact on the EU-Russia Energy Relationship. Dr Maxi Scherer -Special Counsellor at Wilmer Hale and Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary and Prof Alan Riley - City Law School, City University London, and Associate Research Fellow, Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels. presented their views under the moderation of Dr David Chekroun,Professor of Energy Law at ESCP Europe.

On February 25, 1921, the Russian Bolshevik Red Army took Tbilisi and conquered Georgia.

When it comes to the natural gas market in Europe, lookout for some numbers - "60, 9, 60."

Benedict XVI announcing his abdication is the first such an occurrence since 600 years. Thus, it is a precedent event, which in addition concerns a person believed to be conservative. Therefore, it has raised many doubts and resulted in emergence of possible theories about the nature of such decision.

America’s pivot to Asia is forcing many states in the region to try and strike a balance between their strategic relationship with Washington and their growing economic ties with China. Today, John Bruni looks at Australia’s and New Zealand’s attempts to reconcile these two imperatives.

Cash-strapped governments across Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CEE/CIS) are resorting to the desperate measure of raiding the pension piggy bank, which may plug budget deficits now but could leave their OAP

There is a new trans-Atlantic partnership budding between Washington and Berlin, one based on a mutual interest in energy security and securing adequate supplies of what will be the leading fuel powering their economies in the 21st Century: natural gas.

Andris Piebalgs, the European development commissioner, has called on EU member countries to compensate the aid cuts from the bloc's long-term budget that were agreed by EU leaders at a summit last Friday.