Russia & CIS

Request on a campaign group by Azerbaijani opposition Musavat Party was rejected by the Central Election Commission.

More than 200 people were evacuated from the Tallinn airport due to bomb scare.

The Turkish armed forces are reported to have 50 tanks and 380 personnel on the ground in Syria after three days of operations.

The National Statistical Service of Armenia has recently publicized the Poverty and Food Security: January-June 2016 report.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has fired two top-ranking generals from the country’s Investigative Committee.

At least 16 people were killed and four more were injured by fire that broke out at a warehouse in Moscow, a source in the local emergency

Russia's deputy PM says the sanctions will remain.

A shocking new video released by the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group reportedly shows a British boy executing a prisoner with a handgun in Syria.

Board of Justice Ministry of Azerbaijan has determined new tasks, considered the results of activities for Jan-Jun 2016 yesterday.

Trump's doctor declared the GOP nominee to be the "healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency."

Croatia, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Montenegro signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the construction of the Ionian Adriatic Pipeline (IAP) with Azerbaijani state oil company SOCAR, Croatian media reported.

International rating agency Fitch has revised its rating on Azerbaijan.

Bloomberg’s Dollar Spot Index, which tracks the currency against 10 peers, rose 0.8 percent.

Ukraine's state Antonov enterprise has started works to assemble 10 An-178 airplanes as part of an agreement with an Azerbaijani company.

Armenian armed forces have violated ceasefire 14 times a day from different directions of the frontline.

The eight-month curfew in Diyarbakir city, southeast Turkey, is to be lifted Saturday morning, the provincial governor’s office said Friday.

Twenty-two Daesh terrorists were killed in and around Mosul.

Brett Ryan, 35, who appeared in court briefly on Friday, was arrested in 2008 for committing robberies in disguise, police said.

Russia faces the task to build a gas pipeline bypassing Ukraine by 2019. For the time being, though, things are right where they started. It has been reported recently that Gazprom was going to close the department in charge of the South Stream project. The state of affairs with the Nord Stream-2 project leaves much to be desired too

Russia completes the tests of stratospheric weapons for long-range bombers. The weapons are said to be capable of striking targets at a distance of 1,000 kilometers. The Russian long-range supersonic missile-bombers Tu-22M3 with the variable geometry of wings, (NATO reporting name Backfire) will be equipped with X-32 cruise missiles