Russia & CIS

Leyla Yunus has been released from jail.

The captain of the Emergency Situations Ministry’s fire-fighter ship "Vikhr-9", inner service Lieutenant-Colonel Vyacheslav Sergeyevich Kryuchkov, who died on Dec.8 of a heart failure, has today been buried in Baku.

US Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday he would head to Moscow next week to meet Russian leaders and try to build momentum for a push to end Syria's civil war, AFP reports.

Azerbaijan is set to change the name and provisions of the article that prescribes responsibility for illegal gatherings, demonstrations and rallies, and toughen penalties for such acts.

A mass attack against the enemy is under preparation.

Memorial services for the victims of the Russian A321 airliner crash in Egypt will be held in Moscow and St. Petersburg on Wednesday, which is the 40th day since the tragedy, an important date for Orthodox Christians.

Turkish authorities have introduced new rules for issuance of work permit to Russian journalists in the territory of the country.

Defense Ministry has disseminated an information.

The PACE Monitoring Committee has appointed Australian parliamentarian Stefan Schennach as the new co-rapporteur on Azerbaijan.

The Russian government hopes to shrink inflation to 6.4 percent in 2016, believes in economic growth, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Wednesday.

Investigations of the flight recorders of the Russian Su-24 Fencer bomber jet downed by Turkish forces will be conducted with foreign experts that the Russian Defense Ministry will determine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday.

24-year-old Garik Avanyesyan.

President of Pakistan Mamnoon Hussain has released a statement.

The defense ministers of Turkey and Iraq are to discuss the number of Turkish military training personnel in northern Iraq, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.

The Embassy of Azerbaijan in Poland has already published series of books dedicated to the Armenia-Azerbaijan, Nagorno Karabakh conflict, the culture, art, history, architecture and national cuisine of the country so far.

State trials of the new Russian short-range Sosna missile defense system will begin in early 2016 so that the Russian Defense Ministry can deliver the complex by the middle of the year, a deputy head of the system’s designers said Wedesday.

A 16-year-old boy in Azerbaijan’s Gazakh district has been injured as he tried to pick a shell in the yard fired by Armenians, APA reports.

Azerbaijani Health Minister Ogtay Shiraliyev has signed an order strengthening preventive measures against swine flu as the disease spread in neighboring Iran.

Searches did not give any result.

"'Calibre' has proven its effectiveness over long distances."