Russia & CIS

The course of the Russian government to increase domestic production of goods and services is expected to be a powerful incentive for the country's new industrial revolution. Swiss and German companies are willing to supply Russia with necessary machinery despite the fact that the latter have ‘political’ difficulties with German authorities.

A Sukhoi Su-34 fighter-bomber skipped off a runway and turned over at an airfield in central Russia on Thursday, a military source told RIA Novosti.

US military and intelligence officials have expressed alarm at the capabilities of Russia’s PAK-FA fighter jet, which some say is even superior to its US counterparts.

An unarmed MiG-29 (Fulcrum) jet fighter has crashed near the southern Russian city of Astrakhan during training exercises, the Russian Defense Ministry said Thursday.

Russian army engineers from Nizhny Novgorod have completed the construction of a major water pipeline to Crimea and are returning back home, the head of the Western Ministry District’s press service said on Thursday.

Russian Presidential Aide Vladimir Kozhin says that Russia’s foreign partners, including China and India, have expressed interest in purchasing new military equipment presented at the May 9 Victory Day parade in Moscow.

The Head of the foreign affairs committee of the lower house of Russia's parliament has pointed to an interdependence between shelling in Donbass and the EU’s anti-Russia sanctions prolongation.

The father of Russian youth powerlifting champion Maryana Naumova says an American sports nutrition company refused to renew his daughter’s contract because of trips the athlete took to Donbass. To boot, he says, Maryana is now listed on Kiev’s “list of terrorists.”

Two more fast-attack missile ships of the Russian Molniya class built in Vietnam were handed over to the Vietnam People’s Navy (VPN) during a ceremony in Ho Chi Minh City.

FIFA President Joseph Blatter’s decision to resign does not increase the risk of the 2018 World Cup in Russia being canceled, Valentina Matviyenko, speaker of the Russian parliament’s upper house, the Federation Council, said Wednesday.

Russia will fulfill all its commitments on preparation for the 2018 FIFA World Cup on time, First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said Wednesday.

The Russian economy may remain in recession in the first quarter of 2016, former Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin told journalists, Wednesday.

Together with the Russian Navy, one of the country’s top scientific institutes has developed a series of cutting-edge new military hardware and technology.

Incumbent Defense Minister Raimonds Vejonis of the Green Party is now the sole candidate to become Latvia's next president, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported Wednesday.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has accused prominent international media institutions like the New York Times, CNN and the BBC of trying to weaken the country and then disintegrate it in line with instructions issued to them by what he called “the superior mind.”

BSTDB eyes possible allocation of a loan.

So far we have invested $70m into the skills development in Azerbaijan.

The European Parliament has restricted access of the Russian delegation to the assembly in a jab at Moscow for banning 89 EU politicians from entering Russia.

”Another well will be drilled in Umid field in the Azerbaijani section of the Caspian Sea, president of the state oil company (SOCAR) Rovnag Abdullayev has told the 22nd International "Caspian Oil and Gas 2015" conference held in Baku, AzerTag reports.

The theme of design of coins is devoted to 5 sports.