Russia & CIS

The Republic of South Africa will open an embassy in Azerbaijan, said the country’s Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Maite Nkoana-Mashabane.

Zakir Hasanov is off for a working visit to Moscow.

Azerbaijan bans advertisement of tobacco and tobacco products, and persons engaging in production or sale of such products from sponsoring.

Today, a bilateral currency auction was held at the Central Bank, which also involved SOFAZ.

Bakutel 2016, the 22nd Azerbaijan International Exhibition and Conference on Telecommunications and Information Technologies has today kicked off in Baku.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry has denied reports that Tehran and Moscow have mutually lifted the visa requirements.

A plane carrying Brazil's Chapecoense football team has crashed in Colombia, reportedly killing some of the passengers on board, RT reports.

Azerbaijani will have nine non-working days during Novruz Holiday in 2017.

Armenian armed forces have 24 times violated the ceasefire along the line of contact between Azerbaijani and Armenian troops over the last 24 hours, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said on November 29.

Wonderful conditions are created for training sessions in rhythmic gymnastics in Baku, Finnish female individual rhythmic gymnast Jouki Tikkanen said in an interview with Trend on November 28.

In case of a breakdown at the Armenian nuclear power plant, 25 communities will be in the primary risk zone.

Georgian Defense Minister Levan Izoria has hosted the Chairman of the Estonian Parliament’s Committee of National Defense, Hannes Hans, Interpress news reported.

Warm seas around Australia's Great Barrier Reef have killed two-thirds of a 700-km (435 miles) stretch of coral in the past nine months, the worst die-off ever recorded on the World Heritage site, scientists who surveyed the reef said on Tuesday.

Suspect killed, several injured in Ohio State University attack.

Turkey has been able to deny Daesh access to an international border, the U.S. anti-Daesh coalition chief said Monday.

President Barack Obama will not attend Fidel Castro's funeral, the White House said Monday.

The Canadian authorities detained an Armenian in the aircraft for irrepressible behavior.

What do Cuban people want? They want the same things that we do - normal equal relations with the United States. It depends on the USA and its readiness for equal cooperation. Will the USA try to force the country into submission again? The Cuban Revolution is a revolution of dignity. There was such a revolution in Cuba indeed, not like in Ukraine

On November 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that "Russian border ends nowhere." When awarding the prize of the Russian Geographical Society one of the nominations, Vladimir Putin conducted a mini-exam in geography for five-year-old erudite Timofei Tsoi and nine-year-old Miroslav Askirko

The population of Russia may shrink considerably in the foreseeable future. Vladimir Putin published an article about social issues before the presidential election in 2012. He wrote there in black and white that if we do not take urgent measures in this regard, then by the middle of the XXI century Russia will lose 50 million people