Russia & CIS

Azerbaijan’s development as well as stability and security in the country are highly valued all over the world, said Vugar Aliyev, deputy head of the Public and Political Issues Department of the Azerbaijani Presidential Administration.

Russian Maj Gen Peter Milyukhin has hit a landmine near the Syrian ancient city of Palmyra, Syria.

The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan-BTC main export pipeline transported 1,989,636 tons of Azerbaijani oil in February, 2017, according to SOCAR.

Saudi Arabia and Azerbaijan have marked the silver jubilee of their diplomatic relations with several bilateral agreements either already signed or waiting to be endorsed by the two sides, Azerbaijani Ambassador in Riyadh Rasim Rzayev said in his article published in Arab News newspaper.

Russian President Vladimir Putin believes that the anti-doping system in Russia has failed entirely. One should admit it, find the guilty and build a new system, he said. "We must listen, despite all those blunders in the work of the independent commission, we must listen to what the commission has done, to the results of its work," Putin said

On Sunday, February 26, a number of events took place in several cities of Russia in memory of Boris Nemtsov, who was assassinated on February 17, 2015. It was obvious in advance that the marches and demonstrations would be held in a political key, because there was a reason for it. The event was a political action

Azerbaijani delegation who visited Iran under my leadership has got familiarized with the implementation of Khudaferin and Maiden Tower project over the Araz Rives, Minister of Economy Shahin Mustafayev said at the press conference.

Azerbaijani Army has destroyed long-term firing point of Armenian armed forces, APA reports.

“Regardless of occurrence time, the genocide is the most terrible form of the murder of civilians by torturing”, head of the Azerbaijani Presidential Administration, Head of Foreign Relations Department Novruz Mammadov wrote on his facebook page, APA reports.

I congratulate Mehriban Aliyeva on the occasion of her appointment as the first vice-president. I believe that this appointment will contribute to the Azerbaijani people and state in the coming years.

Chairman of the Italy-Azerbaijan interparliamentary friendship group, Senator Sergio Divina, as well as Senators Maria Rizzotti and Hans Berger addressed the Senate on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Khojaly genocide, APA reports.

Currently, the situation in Aghdam is normal.

New analysis of geochemical changes in Martian lava flows suggests the Red Planet's mantle is more complex than previously thought.

Fitch Ratings has affirmed Azerbaijan's long-term foreign- and local-currency issuer default ratings (IDR) at 'BB+' with Negative Outlooks, APA-Economics reported.

Armenian armed forces attempted to break into Azerbaijani positions in various directions in order to commit diversions along the frontline on the night of February 25-26, said defense ministry, APA reports.

Armenians have violated ceasefire a total of 120 times.

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Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev declared the 3rd Winter World Military Games in the Russian Black Sea resort open at a gala ceremony at Sochi’s Ice Cube stadium.

Turkey commemorated on Friday the 1992 Khojaly Massacre in which 613 people were killed in Azerbaijan’s occupied-Karabakh.

The White House made the highly provocative move of barring major news outlets from a planned press briefing Friday, prompting protests from the media, Anadolu Agency reports.