Russia & CIS

Azerbaijani canoe sprinter Valentin Demyanenko's result of 40.298 seconds in mens canoe single 200 m took him to the finals.

Azerbaijan’s Ratkevıch qualifies for semifinal in Rio 2016.

Azerbaijani athlete Inna Osypenko-Radomska advanced to women’s canoe single 500m final.

President Ilham Aliyev signed an order on allocation of funds for restoration of a bridge over Kish River in Shaki.

Turkey has named Adnan Tanriverdi, a retired brigadier general, the new adviser for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, CNN Turk reported Aug. 17.

The first Armenian gold medal winner in the last 20 years, Arthur Aleksanyan, has made a great political provocation on 12th day of Rio Summer Olympic Games, AzVision.az reports.

The Cabinet amended the Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers No. 20 of 19 January 2001 “On the Level of Excise Duties on Excisable Goods Imported into the Territory of the Azerbaijani Republic”.

President of the Olympic Council of Ireland questioned by Brazilian police.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is preparing to take a high-profile trip to Tehran next week in a move seen by mainstream Arab media as the official launchpad for kickstarting the Turkey-Iran-Russia coalition on Syria.

The Baku Court on Grave Crimes on Wednesday resumed the preparatory hearing on the case of Chairman of the Board of “International Bank of Azerbaijan” OJSC Jahangir Hajiyev and seven more people connected with him.

Caucasus Development Bank and Atrabank have been declared bankrupt by the decision of the Baku Administrative Economic Court No.1 from Aughust 16, 2016.

The Russian economy still remains dependent on fuel exports. Russia receives 60% of income from exporting oil and gas. Unfortunately, there is no diversification of the economy. The government only prays for oil and gas prices not to fall further. Yet, the current level of prices is too low already, and Russia will run out of its reserves soon

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev admitted that Russia could indeed break diplomatic relations with Ukraine. Speaking to reporters after the meeting of the heads of the Eurasian Economic Council, Medvedev said that Russia had terminated diplomatic ties with Georgia after the five-day war in 2008, when Georgia attacked South Ossetia

The more news we hear from Ukraine about anti-Russian hysteria, the more strange it appears to deal with the opposite attitude to Ukrainians on Russia's part. For example, when Ukraine destroys and renames everything that is at least somehow related to the USSR and Russia, Russia opens a monument to one of the ideologists of Ukrainian independence

1 soldier martyred at scene, another succumbs to wounds at hospital, military source says.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan blamed Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen for efforts to undermine Moscow-Ankara relations.

According to the Russian president, Russia and Turkey should not just regain the pre-crisis level of bilateral trade relations, but go even further.

‘We need to make the Iranians pay a price in Syria. We need to make the Russians pay a price,' Michael Morell says.