Russia & CIS

The Kremlin is worried by claims that Germany now sees Russia has a rival rather than a partner, the Interfax news agency reported Monday.

The European Union supports the launch of negotiations on a comprehensive settlement of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, says Maja Kocijancic, spokesperson for the EU high representative.

Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan has disseminated an information.

The YTM of SOCAR’s bonds dropped 14-17 points, of the Southern Gas Corridor’s securities slipped 13 points.

The Central Bank of Azerbaijan has announced the US dollar rate for June 7.

The multinational joint drills of special forces kicked off in Turkey June 6, Azerbaijan's Defense Ministry told Trend.

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev embarked on a working visit to Germany on June 6.

Bud Fackrell, BP vice president on Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey and president of BP Turkey, has resigned from his post since June 1.

Russian gas giant Gazprom is set to invest 100 billion rubles ($1.5 billion) in Kyrgyzstan's gas pipelines by 2030, the Interfax news agency reported Monday.

Turkish warplanes destroyed targets of the terrorist PKK group in northern Iraq and in Turkey's southeastern Hakkari province Sunday.

"Armenia does not have nuclear weapons, the country has no plans to build it, while there are specialists in nuclear physics in the country."

U.S. social network Facebook and Russian Internet giant Yandex are in negotiations over a potential partnership deal, the Vedomosti newspaper reported Monday.

Kazakhstan's special services said that they managed to thwart plans of local businessman Tokhtar Tuleshov's to stage a coup d'etat, the Interfax news agency reported Monday.

Several archaeological sites have been damaged during the reconstruction of the central Moscow street Tverskaya Ulitsa, an activist from Arkhnadzor said.

A red terror alert has been announced in Kazakhstan's western city of Aktobe after a deadly overnight attack by gunmen, the Interfax news agency reported Monday.

On May 24, two shiny Russian Superjets stood nose to nose in an aircraft hangar in Venice, Italy, painted in the colors of CityJet, an Irish regional airline.

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) has filed a lawsuit against extreme performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky for damage he caused when setting fire to the door of the organization's headquarters.

Russia is backing out of a former pledge to help endangered leopards in Sochi, the Foreign Policy news outlet reported Friday.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has been in telephone talks with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry this Friday to discuss ways to end the conflict in Syria.