Russia & CIS

The BRICS countries – Russia, India, China, Brazil and South Africa – find themselves in a special risk zone, facing the threat of artificial exacerbation of ethnic tensions inside each of them, the head of Russia’s Security Council warned Tuesday.

On Saturday, the Security Service of Ukraine disseminated information to the press that Ukraine had never received a request from Moscow to meet with the two Russians detained on May 16.

"The Southern Gas Corridor is not at all a project aimed at our promotion."

A scandal has broken out during a Nagorno-Karabakh event organized by the Armenian diaspora in Paris.

On May 27-28, the capital city of Al-Kuwait will host the 42nd session of the foreign ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).

The wildfire area in southern Siberia has grown by 20% over the past 24 hours to 32,000 hectares in mountain taiga and steppes of Buryatia, a spokesperson for the local forestry agency said on Tuesday.

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says the Iranian nation supports peace and constructive interaction with the world, stressing that the era of violence and extremism has drawn to a close.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev congratulated the newly elected President of Poland Andrzej Duda.

Tanks and armored vehicles, based on the Armata and Bumerang combat platforms, air defense missile batteries and other military hardware will soon be deployed in Russia’s Arctic regions, the Southern Military District’s press service announced on Tuesday.

"Azerbaijan is not satisfied with the EU association agreement".

Lawyers for President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan have dropped complaints about two of the 13 suspects in a case into wiretapping against him during his time as prime minister.

A contract is expected to be signed.

Azerbaijan wishes the conflict between the two fraternal Ukrainian and Russian nations to be settled. The sooner, the better.

"The United States is committed to cooperation with Azerbaijan".

“TANAP will start gas transportation in 2018”

The Southern Gas Corridor is not at all a project aimed at our promotion. It is not a political project, it is strictly a commercial project, Vitaly Baylarbayov, deputy Vice President of SOCAR told EurActiv in an exclusive interview, APA reports.

Representatives from Iran and the P5+1 countries are set to start a new round of talks on drafting the text of a final agreement over Tehran’s nuclear program in the Austrian capital of Vienna.

"European Games - are a priority for our country."

A plan of consultations for 2015-2016 has been signed between the ministries of foreign affairs of Azerbaijan and Russia.

World-famous Samsung has decided to quit Armenia.