Russia & CIS

It's high time to solve the Karabakh conflict. Azerbaijan is fully ready to work on the last documents.

Southern Military District’s press service announced that Russian military personnel have carried out more than 1,000 tactical and special exercises using drones during the winter training period.

Northern Fleet Commander Adm. Vladimir Korolev said that Russia’s Northern Fleet’s Coastal Forces will receive new Bastion anti-ship missile complexes in 2015.

United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) Al-Bayan newspaper has published the interview of the Azerbaijani Consul General to Dubai and Northern Emirates Parviz Ismayilzade, AzerTag reports.

The list includes the names of the heads of 50 companies.

Vehicles registered in other cities and districts of the republic are banned from entering Baku due to the upcoming first European Games.

The Director of the Department for Non-Proliferation and Arms control at the Russian Foreign Ministry said that Russia retains its right to deploy nuclear weapons anywhere on its territory if necessary.

Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces will hold more than 30 tactical military exercises during the summer.

Russia’s next-generation Armata tank had the option of being developed into a remote-controlled combat vehicle from its very inception, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who is in charge of the country’s defense industry, said Sunday.

The US Navy Sixth Fleet issued a statement which shed some light on Saturday's incident in which, according to a Russian military source, Russian Su-24 jets warned the USS Ross destroyer away from Russian territorial waters.

The first museum dedicated to the writer opened on Sunday in his home town of Kislovodsk in southern Russia.

The Commander of the Russian Air Force praised the Russian Ka-52 Alligator attack helicopter as the world’s best; the comments came during the aerial acrobatics contest “Aviadarts 2015” in the city of Voronezh, in the South-West of Russia.

Russia's association football governing body voted to oust its president after a heated debate about the organization's financial woes.

Representatives of the Belgorod Archdiocese of the Russian Orthodox Church have issued a statement denouncing a painting created in the style of an Orthodox icon featuring Joseph Stalin and Soviet WW2 generals.

Over 140 pilots of operational and tactical aviation, army air forces, long-range and military transport aviation from the Far East, Siberia, Urals, North Caucasus and the Polar Region compete in the sky as part of the “Aviadarts-2015” contest for the best aerobatic team.

Speaking to reporters on a plane during his return to Moscow from Gorno-Altaisk after meeting with Kazakh Foreign Minister Yerlan Idrisov, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov showed off a very cool-looking brown jacket featuring the famed raising of the Soviet flag over the Reichstag and the words "Victory: 1945-2015."

Nine people, according to preliminary data, were injured as a result of a large fire in St. Petersburg, a spokesman for the regional Interior Ministry told RIA Novosti.

Russia's Admiral Nakhimov nuclear-powered battle cruiser will return to service after being upgraded by 2018, the Russian Navy's Shipbuilding Department's deputy head said Saturday.

Russian Navy jets forced a US Navy ship into the eastern Black Sea after it was noticed heading into Russia's territorial waters.

Russia’s analogue of the French Mistral-class carrier is in its final phase of design and will be probably laid down soon afterwards, according to the head of the Navy Ship Building Directorate; the decision to buy the vessels from France was made under “certain circumstances”; six years ago Russia was already capable of building them.