Russia & CIS

Head of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill and Pope Francis will meet in Cuba on Feb. 12, the Gazeta.ru website reported Friday.

U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said that Russia is putting constant pressure on U.S. allies in Europe, the state-run TASS news agency reported Friday.

The Central Bank of Azerbaijan has announced official USD/AZN rate for Feb. 8.

A man has killed nine people, including his wife and several of her relatives, in the southeastern Turkish province of Gaziantep, the Turkish Yeni Şafak newspaper reported.

The OSCE Minsk Group is not satisfied with the status quo in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, US co-chair of OSCE MG James Warlick tweeted on Feb. 5.

Russian Foreign Ministry said that Moscow plans to further implement the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.

The European Investment Bank (EIB) will allocate one billion euros to finance the construction of the Trans-Anatolian Pipeline (TANAP) project, Bloomberg reported with reference to EIB Vice-President Pim Van Ballekom.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kissinger said the US-Russian relations "are probably the worst they have been since before the end of the Cold War".

A newborn has been found in a street in Azerbaijan.

According to a source in the Russian defense industry, the flagship of the Russian Pacific Fleet, Guards’ missile cruiser Varyag, will undergo a modernization until 2020.

The State Financial Supervision Service under the Ministry of Finance has released information about results of control measures conducted in 2015.

On February 7, the weather conditions in Baku and the Absheron Peninsula will change dramatically, with occasional precipitation.

More than half of Russians have a negative outlook for the economic situation, the highest amount since the country's financial crisis began, the Kommersant newspaper reported Friday, citing a recent poll.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Friday rejected claims that Russia is pursuing a military solution to the Syrian crisis instead of political settlement.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Vladimir Putin and the country's Security Council have discussed the work of the Baghdad information center, founded to exchange data and coordinate the fight against terrorism.

The Cabinet of Ministers has made an amendment to the “Regulation on approval of the minimum amount of unemployment benefits and stipends given to the people in the period of vocational training, retraining and improvement of qualification”.

There has been no contact between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Friday.

The Central Bank of Azerbaijan has today held the next currency auction.

A Moscow resident faces murder charges for shooting and killing a representative of his creditors who had arrived at his apartment in the company of court bailiffs to take inventory of the man's possessions.

Negotiations between banks and defaulting mortgage holders were last week reduced to a series of emotional protests in bank offices and central Moscow streets.