Russia & CIS

The State Financial Supervision Service under the Ministry of Finance has released information about results of control measures conducted in 2015.

On February 7, the weather conditions in Baku and the Absheron Peninsula will change dramatically, with occasional precipitation.

More than half of Russians have a negative outlook for the economic situation, the highest amount since the country's financial crisis began, the Kommersant newspaper reported Friday, citing a recent poll.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Friday rejected claims that Russia is pursuing a military solution to the Syrian crisis instead of political settlement.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Vladimir Putin and the country's Security Council have discussed the work of the Baghdad information center, founded to exchange data and coordinate the fight against terrorism.

The Cabinet of Ministers has made an amendment to the “Regulation on approval of the minimum amount of unemployment benefits and stipends given to the people in the period of vocational training, retraining and improvement of qualification”.

There has been no contact between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Friday.

The Central Bank of Azerbaijan has today held the next currency auction.

A Moscow resident faces murder charges for shooting and killing a representative of his creditors who had arrived at his apartment in the company of court bailiffs to take inventory of the man's possessions.

Negotiations between banks and defaulting mortgage holders were last week reduced to a series of emotional protests in bank offices and central Moscow streets.

Azerbaijan has a strong base to withstand shocks, Shahmar Movsumov, Executive Director of the State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan Republic (SOFAZ), wrote in his letter published in Financial Times Feb. 5.

Armenian solider Simon Chavrshyan, 20, was killed in a gunfight with Azerbaijani armed forces in Armenian-occupied Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.

According to a military diplomatic source, Russia’s Mediterranean Sea ship task force could reach 20 warships depending on set assignments.

The Russian government could broaden the list of excisable goods to include palm oil, soda and chips, the Vedomosti newspaper reports.

The government of Azerbaijan and Ministers' Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina held discussions of the final text of agreement on international automobile ties in Sarajevo on February 4.

President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Thursday stopping the refugee flow is not possible without a halt to the continued airstrikes by Russia and the Assad regime against Syrian civilians.

Armenian armed forces violated the ceasefire with Azerbaijan 110 times using large caliber machine-guns in various directions of the contact line of troops, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said.

Azerbaijani oil has gone up in price.

Prime Minister Artur Rasizade has introduced alterations to the Rules of Transporting Passengers and Baggage by Automobile Transport.

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has delivered a speech at a London conference on Syrian crisis.