Russia & CIS

Armenian armed forces violated ceasefire 82 times on various parts of the frontline in a day.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says any attempts to revise the framework of a potential deal on Iran’s nuclear program, which was reached in the Swiss city of Lausanne in April, will result in the failure of efforts to reach a final agreement.

Russia is obliged to react to the threats from the side of NATO and the United States, Russian president Vladimir Putin.

In cooperation with the Baku-2015 European Games Operation Committee, the European Azerbaijan Society (TEAS), and the Nitsa National Sports Museum, France’s National Olympic and Sports Committee opened the photo-exhibition “Azerbaijan – Sport in Focus".

The Baku 2015 European Games has signed an agreement with Fox Sports Africa to bring the inaugural European Games to its viewers in 25 countries and territories.

The volume of oil transported by the BTC pipeline has been made public.

The 6th International Maiden Tower Arts Festival will be held in Baku on June 11-14, AzerTag reports.

The official flame of the inaugural European Games has been welcomed to Khirdalan by hundreds of local residents, who then took part in a spectacular Festival of Fire in the city center.

Soldier Allahyar Mammadov died at N military unit of the civil defense troops of the Emergency Ministry.

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has sent a letter of congratulations to King of Sweden Carl XVI Gustaf on the occasion of the National Day of the Kingdom of Sweden.

The recent Armenian media reports that the Azerbaijani side allegedly refused to lead the OSCE observer mission to its frontline during the monitoring conducted on the line of contact near Garadagli village of Agdam district on June 5 are false, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry told APA.

Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry has issued a note on the closure of the OSCE coordinator’s office in Baku, OSCE Baku Office told Trend June 5.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the recent ceasefire violations in southeastern Ukraine raise doubts about the possibility of establishing long-lasting peace in the region.

Two people have been killed and over 100 have been injured in two explosions ahead of the Kurdish problem-focused Peoples' Democratic Party's (HDP) rally in the southeastern Turkish province of Diyarbakır.

The delegations of Great Britain, Sweden, Ireland, Bulgaria, France and Slovenia arrived in Azerbaijan to participate in the upcoming Baku 2015- the first ever European Games, APA reports.

A spokesman for Russia's Aerospace Defense Forces says that a Russian military satellite has reached its designated orbit and established stable contact with ground control services.

The first launch of a new manned spacecraft on an Angara heavy rocket carrier from Russia's Vostochny Space Center is scheduled for 2023, the head of Russia’s space agency Roscosmos said Friday.

The Russian military launched on Friday a Soyuz-2.1a space rocket carrying a military satellite, a spokesman for Russia's Aerospace Defense Forces said.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is continuing to follow Washington guidelines. Russia should thus remain isolated, Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten reported.

A Russian student who collected money within the alleged charity event to support Muslim orphans was detained and charged with sponsoring the Islamic State militant group, the student's lawyer said Friday.