Russia & CIS

Azerbaijan’s State Examination Center (SEC) is holding mock examinations on specialty groups 1 and 4 in 11 cities for applicants seeking to enter university.

"Azersu" OJSC disseminated information in connection with mass poisoning in Sumgayit.

Iran’s Aseman Airlines has signed a final deal to buy 30 Boeing (BA.N) 737 MAX jets, APA’s Tehran bureau reported.

Warsaw will host an Azerbaijan-Poland business forum on June 27, AzerTag reports.

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has sent a congratulatory letter to President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, APA reports.

The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Ambassadors Igor Popov of Russia, Stephane Visconti of France, Richard Hoagland of the US and the Personal Representative of the Chairperson-in-Office, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk arrived in Armenia on June 10.

Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani has canceled his visit to Turkey, the Turkish media outlets report citing diplomatic sources.

The Armenia district court judge has been arrested.

A farewell ceremony for the Azerbaijani Energy Minister Natig Aliyev is being held in Baku.

The body of Azerbaijan’s Energy Minister Natig Aliyev, who died in Florence Nightingale Hospital in Istanbul on June 8, was brought to Baku on June 10 morning.

A Russian plane intercepted an American refueling aircraft during exercises in the Baltics, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports.

On Friday, authorities announced the arrests of 41 suspects in connection with the twin Tehran attacks.

Mekan Ishanguliev was appointed as Turkmenistan’s ambassador to Azerbaijan.

Russian scientists have created robots that will replace human rescuers in dangerous operations.

Merkel said she wanted the balance of power to be maintained "sensibly" in the region.

Military units of the armed forces of Armenia violated ceasefire 144 times throughout the day, using large-caliber machine guns, grenade launchers and 60 millimeter mortars (24 shells).

"The nation of Qatar unfortunately has historically been a funder of terrorism at a very high level."

Living in today's world, in which the Crimea became a part of Russia without a single gunshot, many people do not even realize that Russia's Black Sea Fleet was supposed to leave the Crimea when the peninsula was still a part of Ukraine. There was even a special website created, which published news stories about the Crimea and the Russian fleet

In an interview with NBC News journalist Megyn Kelly, Russian President Vladimir Putin strongly rejected any possibility of Russia's interference both in US elections and in the domestic political life of the United States in general. Some of Putin's remarks were rather emotional, but the Russian president was not rude at all

NATO Evaluation Level 2 of infantry battalion of Azerbaijan Armed Forces held within the framework of NATO Operational Capabilities Concept (OCC) program in Karaheybat Training Centre ends today.