Russia & CIS

Men infected with hepatitis B virus are called up for military service in Armenia, said in an article published by Graparak newspaper, APA reports.

In July 2013, a Proton-M carrying three Russian GLONASS satellites crashed in flames shortly after liftoff.

Russia is viewsing possible steps on ECHR ruling in Yukos case.

The Azerbaijani embassy in France has commented on Tuesday’s scandal that broke out during an event dedicated to Nagorno-Karabakh.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev.

News.Az reprints an interview with Deputy Foreign Minister of the Czech Republic Petr Drulák from APA.

Air defense units from Russia’s Central Military District have been re-deployed to the Kapustin Yar and Ashuluk testing ranges, located in the Astrakhan region in the country’s south, as part of a snap combat-readiness check, the Russian Defense Ministry’s press service said Wednesday.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin reprimanded a military industrial official for his misleading statements that Russia has decided not to buy two Mistral-class helicopter carriers from France, the Russian Kommersant newspaper reported Wednesday.

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) officially brought charges against a Lithuanian national, arrested on May 20, in Moscow while receiving a secret document from a Russian resident. The man was accused of espionage activities and brought into custody.

Snap air and air defense drills in Russia's Central Military District are aimed at testing the capability to counter threats coming from the Central-Asian strategic direction, the Russian General Staff said Tuesday.

The first avatar robot may be created in Russia within the next 10 years, deputy head of the Russian Foundation for Advanced Research Projects Sergei Gabruk said Tuesday.

Moscow and Beijing are planning to enhance their cooperation in space research and conduct joint manned space missions, particularly, to the moon. The US does not trust these plans, fearing that China and Russia could work on an anti-satellite weapon.

358 kilograms of drugs and 3,620 cannabis plants were burnt

Defense Ministry has disseminated an information.

Marine Le Pen was seen entering the building of the Russian Parliament as she arrived for meetings in Moscow.

AZPROMO has released information.

The reception will start at 11:00, the ministry said.

The Islamic State militant group’s foreign-language media branch has launched an online magazine in Russian to target the country’s large Muslim community, a US-based monitoring organization said Tuesday.

As Great Britain has now invited Russia to participate in the fight against terrorism, the West seems to have realized that confrontation with Russia has no good endings. However, both countries are organizing major military maneuvers to preserve the facade of the conflict and not to give the impression of weakness, DWN wrote.

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has officially informed the Russian Embassy in Kiev that access to the two Russian nationals detained by Ukrainian forces would be granted, Ukrainian Foreign Ministry envoy Dmytros Kuleba said at a briefing on Tuesday.