Russia & CIS

China, the world's most populous country, might have slipped through its fingers, but with Russia Netflix pocketed the largest country by landmass and the promise of tapping into a booming online market.

The Russian animated film "We Can't Live Without Cosmos" has been shortlisted for an Academy Award.

If the air space in the zone of combat operations on the territory of Ukraine had been closed from the ground level without any restrictions in altitudes, the accident would not have happened. Russian officials are convinced that Ukrainian authorities deliberately concealed or misrepresented real threats to the safety of civil aviation flights

The sales of new passenger cars and light commercial vehicles in Russia dropped by 35.7 percent last year, the Automobile Manufacturers Committee of the Association of European Businesses (AEB) said in a statement Thursday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Barack Obama conducted a telephone conversation on Wednesday for the first time since June 2015, according to a statement by the Kremlin's official website.

Russia has replaced Israel as the country that "poses the biggest threat to Turkey," according to an opinion poll conducted by a Turkish University.

Fifty-three textbooks published with the support of the Soros Foundation - an NGO deemed "undesirable" in Russia last year - were burnt at a college in Russia's northern republic of Komi, the 7x7 local news website reported Wednesday, citing an official letter from the regional Education Ministry.

New fears over China's economy and sharp falls in the price of oil have worsened the outlook for Russia as it tries to emerge from recession.

Russia started developing a new anti-aircraft artillery system that is said to replace well-known "Shilka" and "Tunguska" systems. The new anti-aircraft artillery system is to have the caliber of 57 millimeters. Serial production of anti-aircraft guns on mobile chassis started during the First World War

Four leading European companies are vying to build Gazprom’s North Stream 2 gas pipeline, the Moscow-based Kommersant newspaper wrote on Wednesday, citing sources at Russia’s gas giant in Moscow.

U.S. co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group James Warlick voiced hope that in 2016, the sides will come to the negotiation table prepared to make progress on a settlement.

The previous decision has been changed.

More than 50 flights were canceled at Moscow airports on Wednesday as the city remains buried under almost a quarter of a meter of snow, the Interfax news agency reported Wednesday.

Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov received general director of the U.S. National Security Council for European Affairs Charles Kupchan.

Receipt of documents (declarations) for the confirmation of drug prices on the regulative articles announced so far at the Tariff Council is underway, Abbas Aliyev, head of the PR department of the Ministry of Economy and Industry, told APA Jan.12.

On the 6th of April 2016, oil & gas industry leaders will gather in Moscow, Russia, for the Fleming. event Pipeline Integrity International Summit, Russia & CIS.

Russian media producing content aimed at foreign audiences have made a splash abroad, judging by vexed reaction from politicians, Russia’s Mass Communications Vice Minister Alexey Volin said Wednesday.

"Azerbaijan condemns all forms and manifestations of terrorism."

"We will not be able to neutralize the deficit with natural gas from Azerbaijan this year."

Agsu residents did not hold any protests.