Russia & CIS

A leading Chinese aviation company will partner with a French firm to develop giant airships for heavy-weight air cargo, company sources said.

The Canadian Defense Ministry sent a reconnaissance aircraft to verify the information concerning mysterious underwater sounds in the sea.

Head of the Caucasian Muslims` Board Sheikh-ul-Islam Allahshukur Pashazade will embark on a visit to Spain by the invitation of Catholic University of Murcia on November 7.

Three U.S. military servicemembers were killed on Friday in a shooting outside a training facility in Jordan, a U.S. official said, updating a death toll that had previously been estimated at one dead and two critically wounded, APA reports quoting Reuters.

A park commemorating victims of the Khojaly Genocide has been inaugurated in Salih Omurtak quarter, Karabağlar district, Izmir, Turkey.

The Embassy of Indonesia in Baku will hold the First Indonesian Cultural Festival (ICF) in Mugham Centre on November 19-20. The event will be a display of the diversity of Indonesia.

A total of nine people were martyred in terrorist group PKK's vehicle bomb attack on a police station in the largest city in southeast Turkey on Friday.

Baku Court of Appeal considered on Friday an appeal filed by ANS Independent Broadcasting Media Company against the decision of Baku Administrative Economic Court No. 1.

The agreement on common aviation area, known as Open Skies, between Azerbaijan and the EU would open up huge opportunities, Mahmud Mammad-Guliyev, Azerbaijan’s deputy foreign minister, told Trend in Baku Nov. 4.

The famous Serbian film director Emir Kusturica sees Russian President Vladimir Putin as someone who restored a sense of balance to world politics, RIA Novosti reported.

Azerbaijani Deputy Prime Minister Elchin Efendiyev received Israeli Ambassador to Azerbaijan Dan Stav on November 4.

Azerbaijan received 22,000 tourists in the nine months of 2016, sector head in planning and development division of Azerbaijan’s Culture and Tourism Ministry, Mahir Gahramanov said.

Arkhangelsk region of the Russian Federation and Azerbaijan will sign a cooperation agreement, AzerTag reports.

Chairman of Russia’s Federation Council Valentina Ivanovna Matviyenko will visit Tehran November 13.

Russia is forced to take defensive measures against the backdrop of NATO's increasing activities on Russia's western borders, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoygu said. At the July summit in Warsaw, NATO member countries agreed to build up military forces in Eastern Europe. NATO undermines strategic stability, he added

Economist Yakov Mirkin gave another pessimistic forecast about the state of affairs in the Russian economy. According to him, Russia will face a decline in living standards, an economic setback and fluctuations in GDP growth on minimal levels. At the same time, international experts say that the Russian economy has been stabilizing

The recent publication of images of Russia's new intercontinental ballistic missile "Sarmat" created quite a stir in Western media. In the West, they pay a lot of attention on Russian armed forces. In principle, the current series of publications fits the current anti-Russian hysteria trend. Russia has to take care of its own security

The cotton growing, the full restoration of which is planned in the near future, has brought the country $29m profit in 2015.

The Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA) said it attracted AZN 107.1m at a deposit auction October 31.

Armenian armed forces continue to aggravate the situation on the contact line between Armenian and Azerbaijani troops, Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry said on Monday.