Russia & CIS

White House spokesman Sean Spicer resigned on Friday, ending a brief, turbulent tenure that gained global notoriety, after President Donald Trump named adviser and Wall Street financier Anthony Scaramucci as his top communications official, Daily Sabah reports.

After the commissioning of the third airport in Istanbul, Istanbul Ataturk Airport will operate as an exhibition center, the Turkish Ministry of Transport, Maritime and Communications told Trend July 21.

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has arrived in the Russian Federation for a working visit, Trend reports.

President Vladimir Putin conducted a Q&A conference with children at Sirius educational centre, which he established in Sochi in 2015. More than 900 schoolchildren from 66 regions of Russia took part in the conversation with the president under the title "A non-childish talk with Vladimir Putin."

An official reception dedicated to national holiday of Egypt was held in Baku.

“Now, we’ll lay the foundation of a fish breeding enterprise, fish market has been built. Look, there has never been a fish market in Baku so far. This is a shortcoming. Because, most of coastal cities have fish market”, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev said in the meeting with representatives of public in Pirallahi district, APA reports.

Tehran has denied any scheduled meeting between Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his American counterpart, Rex Tillerson.

One of the most experienced American diplomats, James Warlick, is negotiating with the US authorities about the possibility of judicial proceedings on the financing of the separatist "Nagorno-Karabakh Republic" by such Armenian organizations as the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) and the Armenian Assembly of America (AAA), Oxu.Az reports citing the Armenian portal Depiararat.

In recent years, drinking water supply projects have been successfully implemented both in Baku and in almost all Azerbaijan’s districts, said Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.

More than 20 citizens of Turkey became injured as a result of the Aegean Sea quake, the Turkish media outlets quoted the country’s Prime Minister Binali Yildirim as saying July 21.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Elmar Mammadyarov spoke at the closing ceremony of the 11th Summer Energy School organized by the ADA University on July 9-12.

Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov will pay an official visit to Hungary on 24 July.

Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov received Imre Laslotski, the Ambassador of Hungary to the Republic of Azerbaijan upon the termination of his diplomatic tenure.

Russian State Duma approved the bill on obliging messaging services to identify users by phone number in the third, final, reading.

Armenian driver Hrachya Harutyunyan, who was convicted of causing a major traffic accident in Russia that killed 18 people, was extradited to Armenia on July 20.

In the Soviet Union, it was the Yakovlev Design Bureau that was developing vertical take-off and landing aircraft. TheYak-36 was the first such aircraft (tested in 1996). Afterwards, the Yak-141 followed, although the new aircraft was being developed at the time of the collapse of the USSR. The project was shelved

In Russia, the number of unemployed individuals holding higher education diplomas has decreased by 13 percent. People in their 40s and 50s have the education that they had received under the conditions of a different reality. Naturally, the market needs those whose knowledge is a reflection of today's reality, rather than the reality of the past

The governments of Azerbaijan and Tajikistan reached an agreement to ban import and sale of goods, produced in the occupied Azerbaijani territories, in Tajikistan.

It would be "quite challenging" for the United States to reach the 3 percent growth target set by President Donald Trump, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen told a Senate panel on Thursday in a hearing focused on regulatory reform and a discussion of lagging productivity, Reuters reports.

Chairman of Central Bank of Azerbaijan Elman Rustamov has met his Swiss counterpart Tomas Jordan.