Russia & CIS

State Customs Committee has released an information.

A week after his decision to resign, reports emerged that former Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan has left Armenia for Dubai to avoid “close contacts with former team mates”.

The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Michel Forst, arrived on an official visit to Azerbaijan.

The Awam Express hit a stationary cargo train about 25 km (15 miles) from the city of Multan.

Iran may rent regional pipelines abroad instead of construction new routes to export gas to the EU, Alireza Kameli, head of the National Iranian Gas Company, said.

Markin's next job will have nothing to do with his previous position.

The Ministry of Education has announced statistics for the final exams according to regions, APA reports.

Australian Austal shipyard has delivered the Rashid Behbudov offshore crew transfer vessel to Caspian Marine Services in Azerbaijan.

Armenian armed units violated ceasefire a total of 14 times throughout the day, using large caliber machine guns.

Azerbaijani film has been named the best at the Russian film festival.

Political barometer is falling down. That is why more and more attention is paid to weapons. The military journalist Jacques Borde told Pravda.Ru about the newest weapons of Russia – from laser to electromagnetic ones, which outdo the American counterparts. Borde believes that Russia has firmly topped the list of world weapons.

In foreign policy, one must prove something to others all the time. Look how long it takes the Americans to prove it to us that they can not decide for themselves what forces in Syria represent the moderate opposition to Assad. The Americans have been doing it for months deliberately. John Kerry is a very intelligent person, but...

A SOCAR worker is reported to have drowned as the result of the incident.

Azerbaijani delegation headed by the speaker Oqtay Asadov will participate in discussion of migration and refugee crisis in Europe.

Russian-US talks on Syria lasted for over 13 hours thus breaking the record of the Moscow meeting from July 15.

At least 12 people were killed and more than 40 were injured in two suicide bombings late on Friday at a shopping mall in eastern Baghdad.

At least fifteen people have been killed and 70 injured, many critically, in a huge fire triggered by a boiler explosion at a Bangladeshi factory.

Armenian armed units violated ceasefire a total of 25 times throughout the day.

Georgia will soon have a new ambassador to the United States (US).

If the truce holds from Monday, Russia and the United States will begin seven days of preparatory work to set up a "joint implementation center."