Russia & CIS

Bud Fackrell, BP vice president on Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey and president of BP Turkey, has resigned from his post since June 1.

Russian gas giant Gazprom is set to invest 100 billion rubles ($1.5 billion) in Kyrgyzstan's gas pipelines by 2030, the Interfax news agency reported Monday.

Turkish warplanes destroyed targets of the terrorist PKK group in northern Iraq and in Turkey's southeastern Hakkari province Sunday.

"Armenia does not have nuclear weapons, the country has no plans to build it, while there are specialists in nuclear physics in the country."

U.S. social network Facebook and Russian Internet giant Yandex are in negotiations over a potential partnership deal, the Vedomosti newspaper reported Monday.

Kazakhstan's special services said that they managed to thwart plans of local businessman Tokhtar Tuleshov's to stage a coup d'etat, the Interfax news agency reported Monday.

Several archaeological sites have been damaged during the reconstruction of the central Moscow street Tverskaya Ulitsa, an activist from Arkhnadzor said.

A red terror alert has been announced in Kazakhstan's western city of Aktobe after a deadly overnight attack by gunmen, the Interfax news agency reported Monday.

On May 24, two shiny Russian Superjets stood nose to nose in an aircraft hangar in Venice, Italy, painted in the colors of CityJet, an Irish regional airline.

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) has filed a lawsuit against extreme performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky for damage he caused when setting fire to the door of the organization's headquarters.

Russia is backing out of a former pledge to help endangered leopards in Sochi, the Foreign Policy news outlet reported Friday.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has been in telephone talks with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry this Friday to discuss ways to end the conflict in Syria.

The Kremlin has endorsed a book of Russian President Vladimir Putin's quotes, which was presented at a book festival on Red Square on Friday, the Slon news website reported.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) received the information on doping by Russian athletes six years ago but did not investigate the claim, the Washington Post newspaper reported Friday.

Gennady Timchenko, billionaire owner of the Volga Group company and one of Russian President Vladimir Putin's closest allies, has secured the title of most successful Russian billionaire in 2016 so far.

Russia hopes to be completely self-reliant on domestically produced milk, meat and vegetables by 2020, Agriculture Minister Alexander Tkachev said Friday.

Ukrainian security services and pro-Russian separatist groups are both guilty of using torture in the Donbass conflict, a United Nations official has told reporters.

Latvian law enforcement agencies have arrested the owner of the Miel real estate agency at the request of Russian prosecutors, the Vedomosti newspaper reported Friday.

U.S. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has claimed that Russia and China will celebrate if her opponent Donald Trump wins the upcoming U.S. elections.

While I was walking in the park the other day, I saw a particularly attractive little dog, whose wiggling, tail wagging and walking toward me seemed like a clear indication of friendly intentions.