Russia & CIS

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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."

A unit armed with S-300 missile defense systems has started operating in the Russian Arctic, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.

Russian Aerospace Forces have launched some 2,000 aerial bombs in Syria, destroying numerous extremist infrastructure targets over four days, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.

The data from the black box of the downed Russian Su-24 bomber will prove that the aircraft was in Syrian airspace when it was attacked by Turkish forces, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday.

Russia's Sukhoi T-50 PAK FA next-generation multirole jet is nearing completion in its flight tests, the Deputy Defense Minister said on Monday.

Moody’s Investors Service said that outlook on long-term debt and deposit ratings of Russia’s largest bank Sberbank has been changed from negative to stable to reflect the stabilization of the country’s economy.

The T-90MS, a new, fully modernized version of the Russian T-90 main battle tank, has displayed its capabilities at a testing range in the city of Nizhny Tagil in the Ural Mountains.

According to the Russian Transport Ministry's decree, "security zones with a minimum width of 50 meters are being created near terminals and other airport buildings (a recommendation for airports serving domestic flights)."