Russia & CIS

The Self-Evaluation Exercise-1 (SEL1) was held Saturday of the OCC Reconnaissance Company of Azerbaijan Armed Forces, declared to NATO Operational Capabilities Concept (OCC).

The centre was built in less than two years as a co-operative project between Turkey's government and two aid groups.

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani is on course for a second term in office, preliminary results show.

Oil prices rose on Friday, closing out a second week of gains on growing expectations that OPEC and other producing countries will agree next week to extend output cuts.

Baku Transport Agency and Baku Main Police Department announced that the traffic will be restricted on the day of closing of the 4th Islamic Solidarity Games.

The groundbreaking ceremony of Turkish Diyanet Cultural Center in Tokyo was held on Friday.

Armenian soldier violating ceasefire in Nagorno Karabakh was killed, AzVision.az reports citing the Armenian Media.

U.S. states collected less personal income tax revenue in April than they did a year earlier, a Reuters analysis shows, and analysts said they believed high earners were shifting income to next year, hoping for tax cuts from the federal government.

In many cases, people seek medical assistance in hospitals instead of polyclinics, since the latter lack equipment.

"The issue is being addressed with China through appropriate diplomatic and military channels."

Military units of the armed forces of Armenia violated ceasefire 139 times throughout the day, using large-caliber machine guns, 60 and 82 millimeter mortars (49 shells).

The 18-year-old Azerbaijani Ibrahim Nasrullayev won the talent contest "Talent 2017", organized by the Swedish TV channel TV4, Report informs citing the Swedish media.

Venezuelan protesters burnt a truck of the National Guard in the northern state of Miranda.

Hassan Rouhani leads in Iranian presidential election with 21 million votes out of the 35 million counted so far.

Wines produced by Georgian companies collected some of the major awards at this year’s Decanter World Wine Awards, with the prestigious international competition concluding this month.

Russian Duma lawmaker Vitaly Milonov has introduced a bill proposing introducing criminal liability for the illegal use of magic and folk medicine.

Ibrahim Kalin says if the terrorists are categorized as 'good' and 'bad', anti-terror fight will fail.

Russia is working on the final stage of official tests for Penicillin complex. It does not go about medicine at all. Penicillin is a sound-thermal complex of artillery reconnaissance, capable of greatly reducing the time of detection and neutralization of enemy artillery weapons. The serial production of the complex is scheduled for January 2019

US experts believe that the Russian S-400 air defense system is good, but it is good against fourth-generation aircraft, while the United States has many fifth-generation aircraft. Figuratively speaking, aiming S-400 systems on those aircraft is like sending a cavalry to defeat tanks. Does Russia have anything to oppose to Western armies?

 

One last set of slides from MCIS, this one mostly maps describing operations in Syria. A lot of the slides in this set were actually videos being played through powerpoint, so those are not included here.