Russia & CIS

Blogger Alexander Lapshin, who is in prison in Azerbaijan, has been allowed to telephone his neighbors, his friends have written on his Facebook page, APA reported.

The body of a man was found in the section of the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea, not far from the oil-gathering station #3 of Azneft Production Union’s Oil and Gas Production Department named after Narimanov, where a deadly accident had happened.

There is a reason behind armed provocations of the Armenian authorities on the frontline.

A young woman with Down’s Syndrome is about to achieve her lifelong dream of becoming a weather presenter in France.

Former head coach of the Azerbaijani national football team Berti Vogts will come to Baku.

Armenians have violated ceasefire 125 times.

Iran may soon issue permission for importing rice from India, India's Commerce Ministry said in a statement.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has met with prominent American political scientist and President of the Center for the National Interest, Dimitri Simes, the Russian Foreign Ministry reported on Friday.

Current Director General of one of Georgia’s largest private broadcasters, Rustavi 2 has offered to purchase the company's shares from its major shareholder Kibar Khalvashi.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan late Friday gave a strongly-worded reaction after Turkish ministers were barred from holding public rallies in two German cities ahead of the April 16 referendum in Turkey.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Foreign Minister of Armenia Edward Nalbandian talked on phone on Friday, APA reports quoting Interfax.

Former Haitian president Rene Preval has died, the government of the Caribbean nation said on Friday, Reuters reported.

The Federal Reserve is set to raise its benchmark interest rate later this month as long as economic data on jobs and inflation holds up, Fed Chair Janet Yellen said on Friday, in comments that likely cement a rate hike at its next meeting, Reuters reports.

According to the Pajhwok news agency, 149 militants were killed and 73 others were injured during the operations carried out in eight provinces of the country.

The US-led coalition against the Islamic State terrorist group carried out 16 airstrikes in Syria and Iraq on Thursday, including 10 strikes near the Iraqi city of Rawah, the US Central Command said in a press release, Sputnik reported.

Azerbaijan’s development as well as stability and security in the country are highly valued all over the world, said Vugar Aliyev, deputy head of the Public and Political Issues Department of the Azerbaijani Presidential Administration.

Russian Maj Gen Peter Milyukhin has hit a landmine near the Syrian ancient city of Palmyra, Syria.

The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan-BTC main export pipeline transported 1,989,636 tons of Azerbaijani oil in February, 2017, according to SOCAR.

Saudi Arabia and Azerbaijan have marked the silver jubilee of their diplomatic relations with several bilateral agreements either already signed or waiting to be endorsed by the two sides, Azerbaijani Ambassador in Riyadh Rasim Rzayev said in his article published in Arab News newspaper.

Russian President Vladimir Putin believes that the anti-doping system in Russia has failed entirely. One should admit it, find the guilty and build a new system, he said. "We must listen, despite all those blunders in the work of the independent commission, we must listen to what the commission has done, to the results of its work," Putin said