Russia & CIS

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.

Under the mandate of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, the contact line near Novoivanovka village of Gedebey district will be monitored on August 14, said the Defense Ministry, APA reports.

An apparent crack in an underwater pipeline in Moscow created a massive fire which sent a pillar of smoke hundreds of meters into the air.

Russian Minister of Agriculture Alexander Tkachev said Wednesday he supports the idea of destroying adulterated food products.

According to Russian state statistics service, Russia’s consumer price index has shown zero-rate growth for the third week in a row ending on August 10.

By 2016, the Russian Navy is set to substitute its British Tiger remote-controlled inspection vehicles, used for underwater search and rescue operations, with five advanced Marlin-350 remote controlled unmanned submersibles, made in Russia.

On Wednesday, cities across Russia and the fleets of the Russian Navy held ceremonies commemorating the 118 sailors who died when Russian nuclear submarine Kursk sank in the Barents Sea 15 years ago, on August 12, 2000.

The German tabloid Bild has been alarmed with pictures from the recent Russian naval aviation military exercises featuring bombs attached to Antonov An-26 military transport aircraft with WWII era-slogans such as “To Berlin!” and “For Stalin”.