Russia & CIS

Vladimir Putin said that Russian security services have prevented over 30 crimes of terrorist nature in 2015.

According to Mission Control Center, Russian Progress-M28M cargo spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) after delivering supplies and will now be drowned in the so-called spacecraft cemetery in the Pacific Ocean.

Vladimir Putin demonstrated "the strengths of his personality" at the annual three-hour presidential press conference this week, Fred Weir from the news organization Christian Science Monitor told Sputnik.

As the United Nations Security Council passes a resolution to end the five-year civil war in Syria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov praised the agreement, while stressing the role of the Syrian people in determining their own future.

Top officials from the International Society of Air Safety Investigators (ISASI) have noted high transparency and efficiency of procedures involving the opening and data decoding of the flight recorder from a Russian warplane downed by Turkey over Syria, the Moscow-based Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC or MAK) said Friday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin holds his large press conference in Moscow on December 17. In the beginning of the press conference, Putin spoke about the current state of affairs in the Russian economy. The falling oil prices seriously affected the Russian economy and all of its key indicators. GDP fell by 3.7%, the inflation rate made up 12.3%

An army base is a serious status, an element of long-term strategic planning that ensures economic and public safety to several countries, while entailing certain challenges. The question about the Russian army base in the second largest city of Kyrgyzstan - Osh - had been repeatedly discussed at the top level in both countries over the years

Thank God, the war is not hot yet. All provocations that we can witness these days have the purpose to shape public opinion in the world. The recent story with Russia's Smetlivy warship is another proof of that. Russian officials want Russia to be the country that does nothing but makes excuses. Here is how it happens

Hours after the Russian Defense Ministry reported an incident in the northern Aegean Sea, Turkey’s Foreign Minister said his country was “not in favor of tension”.

Search is underway for 23 oilmen who went missing after the fire on SOCAR's offshore platform and for another three oil workers missing after the recent accident in Oil Rocks, SOCAR Azneft PU told APA-Economics.

Well-known Italian singer Eros Ramazotti, for the first time, will give a concert in Baku on 24 April 2016.

The Asian Development Bank has approved the country operations business plan (COBP), 2016-2018.

In November 2015, food product prices rose 0.9%, non-food product and service rendered to the population remained unchanged.

Italy’s influential newspaper “La Reppublica” has published the interview with the Azerbaijani diplomat Vugar Hajiyev, counsellor of Azerbaijani Embassy in this country, AzerTag reports.

Armenian armed forces violated ceasefire 99 times in various directions of the frontline within a day, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said.

A senior Iranian official says Tehran will take action if it finds that the recent bill by the US House of Representatives on tightening visa-free travel to the United States runs counter to the recent nuclear agreement between Iran and the P5+1 group.

Exactly six months has passed since Georgia’s capital Tbilisi was hit by a deadly flash flood, which turned out to be the city’s worst human and infrastructural disaster in years.

The Ministry has responded to Armenian reports of downing an Azerbaijani unmanned jet on the line of contact.

Under the new Code of Administrative Offences.