Russia & CIS

The main referee of the International Army Games said that Russia has become the clear leader of the event.

Azerbaijani wrestlers have claimed 3 medals, including a gold one in the UWW Junior World Championships in Salvador, Brazil.

Armenians are reported to have committed arson on Thursday in the territory of the occupied village of Bash Qervend of Aghdam.

Turkish authorities are putting up a concrete wall along the country's border with Syria after the recent wave of terrorist attacks hitting the southern border regions.

Deputy Prime Minister made a statement.

The State Customs Service has disseminated information.

Germany`s Ambassador in Ankara Martin Erdmann has said that under the international law, Nagorno-Karabakh belongs to Azerbaijan.

CJSC Azerbaijan Caspian Shipping Company (AXDG) has acceded to the development of Filanovsky oil field in Russia.

Albania, Montenegro, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Ukraine have been added to the Russian food embargo import list, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev announced Thursday.

Deputy Chairman and Executive Secretary of the New Azerbaijan Party (YAP), Deputy Prime Minister Ali Ahmadov has met with British Ambassador to Azerbaijan Irfan Siddiq at the party’s headquarters.

The Baku Court on Grave Crimes on Thursday continued the trial of Leyla Yunus, the imprisoned director of the Institute for Peace and Democracy (IPD), and his husband Arif Yunus.

A group of lawmakers from the Communist fraction of Russia's lower house of parliament has introduced a bill aimed at redistributing foodstuffs confiscated under Russia's food embargo to those in need, and as humanitarian aid to conflict zones, the body's press service announced on Thursday.

The trial of Gevorgyan family, which had fled to Azerbaijan, got underway Thursday in Armenia.

All in all, 500 tonnes of food products that fall under Russia’s anti-Western sanctions has been discarded and destroyed over the past week.

Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi says the Islamic Republic will continue research and development (R&D) activities in the field of nuclear energy, Press TV reports.

Official registered parties withholding an annual financial report in Azerbaijan has been named.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yury Trutnev said that construction for the Russian section of the first railway bridge to cross the Amur river and connect the country with China will begin in late 2015.

Missile divisions in Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula are readying for live-fire drills, according to the Ministry of Defense.

We must keep on reorienting NATO in terms of military capacities.

Bokova has made a statement.