Russia & CIS

News.Az reprints an interview of EurActiv with Minister of Youth and Sports of Azerbaijan Azad Rahimov.

Over 40 Azerbaijanis gathered outside the Armenian embassy.

Armenians have set fire to some Azerbaijani territories under occupation, locals told on Monday, APA reports.

Igor Komarov, the director general of the United Rocket and Space Corporation, said that he discussed issues on the construction of the Vostochny Space Center with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The Minister took part in the international forum.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Khloponin said that final decision on whether to grant private companies access to the Russian shelf will be made by the end of July.

Russia's new fifth-generation T-50 fighter jet, currently in the testing phase, incorporates elements of automation which make it more like a robot than a fighter plane, explains a representative from the Rostech corporation.

The United States and Turkey have agreed "in principle" to give air support to some forces from Syria's mainstream opposition, Turkey's foreign minister said, in what if confirmed could mark an expansion of U.S. involvement in the conflict.

Karabakh conflict is among the foreign policy priorities of Russia.

According to general designer of Kamov helicopters, Russia's Ka-52K (Hokum B) helicopters developed for use on the French-made Mistral-class helicopter carriers will be put to work in the Russian Navy.

"Our relations are at a high level."

“Azerbaijan awaits unambiguous and firm actions by the European Union to ensure that those resolutions are strictly complied with and implemented”

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and his wife, chairperson of the Baku-2015 First European Games Organizing Committee Mehriban Aliyeva have attended the opening of the Athletes and Media Villages.

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) starts the implementation of the Project “Support to seed sector development in Azerbaijan”.

The City of West Hollywood has proclaimed May 28, 2015 as “Azerbaijan National Day” in the city.

Baton Rouge city of the U.S. state of Louisiana has held an event dedicated to the national holiday of Azerbaijan – Republic Day - with the participation of members of the Senate and House of Representatives of Louisiana.

At least three people were killed and two others seriously injured in an explosion at a cement factory in Ankara province of central Turkey on Sunday.

Armenian armed forces violated ceasefire with Azerbaijan 75 times in various parts of the frontline within a day, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said on May 25.

Azerbaijan is an important strategic partner of Russia in the Caucasus and the Caspian region.

Russia will get three new generation nuclear icebreakers by 2020, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said during the Voskresny Vecher (Sunday Night) program on Russian television.