Russia & CIS

China Southern Airlines company will open regular Baku-Urumqi-Guangzhou flight from July 3, AzerTag reports.

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has received an Italian delegation led by Chairman of the European Policies Committee of the Senate, Senator Vannino Chiti.

The Gazi Council and the Scientific-Religious Council of the Caucasian Muslims Office (CMO) has issued a fatwa on the holy month of Ramadan.

The commanding general of the US Army Europe Ben Hodges is in Azerbaijan on a visit, the US Embassy in Baku told Trend.

The receptions could not have been more different. In Kiev: crowds of well-wishers, multiple TV livestreaming, press conferences. In Moscow: out of public eye and under close surveillance.

Bidding opened suddenly on the morning of May 23. After a three-year absence from international markets, and with very little warning, Russia announced it wished to borrow billions of dollars.

President Vladimir Putin has overseen the first shipment of oil from a new terminal in the Russian Arctic.

Following months of negotiations, Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko is on her way back to Ukraine as part of a dramatic prisoner swap, media reported Wednesday.

Russia's biggest bank reported a record-breaking profit of 117.7 billion rubles ($1.8 billion) over January-March, nearly four times more than in the same period last year.

When Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev visited Crimea, he was prepared for handshakes, meetings and rainbows. A soundbite here, a photo-op there.

An alleged Russian intelligence officer has been arrested in the Italian capital of Rome while receiving secret documents from a Portuguese spy, Britain's Telegraph newspaper reported Wednesday.

Billionaire Vladimir Potanin has become the first major Russian investor to buy assets in Iran after the lifting of sanctions, the Kommersant newspaper reported Wednesday.

The Russian Security Council has warned that alleged American espionage activities on Russia's borders is increasing the risk of an "emergency situation."

Everyone wants to be in the Arctic today due to its enormous natural wealth - millions of tons of oil and gas. In the Russian Arctic zone, there are diamonds, metals and other resources. Russia owns the world's largest fleet of ice breakers. Russia has 41 icebreaker, the United States has six, and four of which are to be decommissioned

United Russia deputy Maria Maksakova has claimed that party primaries in St. Petersburg were fraudulent, the Dozhd TV news channel reported Tuesday.

Celebrated Russian TV host Dmitry Kiselyov has called a disparaging French TV report into his program a "controversy between channels."

During his visit to Crimea, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev was confronted by frustrated pensioners, the Meduza news website reported on Tuesday.

The average monthly Russian wage in U.S. Dollars was on par with salaries in Kazakhstan in 2015, the RBC news website reported Tuesday.

They're capricious, hard to please, and you never know what they will get up to next.

The amount of imported cheese in the Russian market has grown for the first time since Russia introduced an embargo on Western food products in 2014, the Kommersant newspaper reported Tuesday.