Russia & CIS

The European Union has lost its cohesion and the refugee crisis has demonstrated the 28-nation bloc’s incapacities, former Austrian president Heinz Fischer said on Thursday, TASS reported.

Japan’s population stood at 127,094,745 as of Oct. 1, 2015, the final results of the census showed, down 0.8 percent from the previous census five years earlier and marking the first decline since the survey began in 1920, according to The Japan Times.

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim expressed confidence that other Turkic states will follow the suit of Azerbaijan in the fight against Fethullah Gulen movement, Anadolu Agency reported.

Concrete measures on creation and promotion of Azerbaijan’s national brand – Made in Azerbaijan – are to be taken from November, Azerbaijan’s Economy Minister Shahin Mustafayev said.

EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus Herbert Salber has today met with IDPs in Barda district as he inspected the conditions created at the settlement for 558 IDP families there.

Baku will host an Azerbaijan-Monaco business forum on November 7.

Figures released by the Customs Administration of Iran show that the country’s exports from Germany have increased by 25 percent.

Azerbaijani State Security Service conducted special operation and neutralized Armed group, planning to commit terrorist attacks and armed attacks in Azerbaijan, the State Security Service's press service told APA.

The Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA) will hold a deposit auction on Oct. 31 to raise funds, the CBA said in a message Oct. 27.

Russia has no intention of attacking anyone, it is ridiculous, foolish and unthinkable, Russian President Vladimir Putin said speaking at a meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club on Thursday, TASS reports.

Saudi Arabia and Gulf OPEC countries are willing to cut 4 percent from their peak oil output, energy ministers from the Gulf countries told their Russian counterpart this week, Reuters reports citing sources familiar with the matter.

Azerbaijan's Minister of Economy is visiting Georgia.

Armenia has launched large-scale military exercises in the occupied Azerbaijani territories.

Georgia is expanding its role as an East-West transit nation by joining the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC).

Turkey is one of the most active countries in the coalition fighting the terrorist group Daesh in Iraq and Syria.

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev congratulated his Czech counterpart Miloš Zeman on the occasion of Independence Day of Czech Republic.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has signed an order to recall Elkhan Polukhov from the post of the country’s ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the Republic of South Africa (also accredited in Angola, Kingdom of Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Mozambique).

Azerbaijani state oil company SOCAR’s bonds, which are on sale at the Baku Stock Exchange (BSE), have risen in price by 1 percent, SOCAR said Oct. 27.

"With regard to the termination of water or electricity supplies - all this stands on the verge of a crime against humanity. Let's take a sufficiently large region with many millions of people living in it - 2.6 million people live in the Crimea - and cut the region from water and electricity supplies in winter," Putin said

Nadiya Savchenko, a member of the Ukrainian Parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, arrived in Moscow on October 26th to take part in the hearing at the Supreme Court of Russia on the case of two Ukrainian nationals. In 1994-1995, they fought in Chechnya against Russian federal forces. Today, they are considered heroes in Ukraine