Russia & CIS

There are very few leverages for influence on Azerbaijan.

Azerbaijani Minister of Economy and Industry and co-chair of Azerbaijan-Hungary joint commission on economic cooperation Shahin Mustafayev has met a delegation led by Speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary László Kövér to discuss prospects for economic cooperation, AzerTag reports.

Ex-finance minister Alexei Kudrin ruled out running for the Russian presidency in 2018.

Russian servicemen will practice using the Iskander-M systems in Buryatia in September.

Over 400 missile service personnel will practice anti-air defense maneuvers.

Top official wrote a tweet.

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev visited the Turkish embassy to our country on 19 June.

Competitions in rhythmic gymnastics are held at the National Gymnastics Arena.

Five years have passed since the heroic death of the national hero of Azerbaijan, the brave son of our people Mubariz Ibrahimov.

An Azerbaijani parliamentary delegation led by Samad Seyidov, the chairman of the parliament’s foreign relations department and head of the country’s delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), will attend the assembly’s summer session in Strasbourg on June 21, the parliament told APA on June 18.

Speaker of Azerbaijani Parliament Ogtay Asadov will visit Ankara on June 18 to attend the funeral of 9th Turkish President Suleyman Demirel, the parliament told APA.

Some 275,000 foreign citizens asked Russia for asylum last year to hide on its territory from war and persecution, the UN refugee agency said in its annual Global Trends Report: World at War released on Thursday.

The Armenian delegation did not face the question of whether to go or not to the European Games in Baku.

One of the biggest media organizations of Turkey ‘Dogan Media Group’ does not stop its anti-Azerbaijan campaign.

The Irish Times, an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper, has published an article by sports journalist Ian O'Riordan, dedicated to the first-ever European Games that are underway in Baku, APA reports.

U.S.-based The Atlantic newspaper has published an article and photos on Baku 2015 first European Games, AzerTag reports.

Russian institutions in Belgium received arrest warrants for state property of the Russian Federation in the European country. The list of the arrested Russian public property includes the local branch of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Russian representative office in Eurocontrol, representative offices of non-governmental organizations and media

CSTO Secretary General made a statement.

The Star Refinery, the first oil refinery project in Turkey since 1975, will be online by March 2018, a $5.6 billion investment that will help decrease the country’s current account gap by $2.5 billion annually, cutting Turkey’s dependence on imported refined oil products, said the SOCAR Turkey CEO and board member of Petkim Petrochemical Holding, Kenan Yavuz.