Russia & CIS

If oil prices continue to fall, it will be necessary to revise the budget in which the oil prices are set at $50 a barrel, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday.

Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili is meeting with representatives of SOCAR, Oxu.Az reports citing Georgia Online.

The Russian Finance Ministry is planning to cut over 500 billion rubles ($6.5 billion) from its expenses this year.

State Statistics Committee has published a report.

The Russian first deputy prime minister believes that the country's government "had not made a single major mistake" in 2015.

Three Russian nationals have been detained by Turkish police after a series of raids against Islamic State insurgents following Tuesday's suicide bombing in Istanbul that killed 10 tourists, the media reported.

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received general director of the U.S. National Security Council for European affairs Charles Kupchan on January 13.

A railway line between Azerbaijan and Iran will have been constructed by the end of this year, president of Azerbaijan Railways Javid Qurbanov has tol

An incident occurred between police and local residents in Azerbaijan’s Siyazan district.

"We are talking about different volumes."

Motorized rifle units of the Russian military base in Armenia started training at the Kamhud and Alagyaz ranges.

You'd think snow in Moscow in winter would be a non-story. But the bout of snowfall that began Tuesday afternoon is the first proper one in what started as a very warm winter.

Baku is commemorating oilmen who died in a fire in Guneshli field.

Some 20 aircraft from the Russian Aerospace Troops will be used in the exercises.

Ministry has disseminated an information.

Georgia's natural gas demands are growing slowly and are predictable.

The country's budget deficit was expected to be 3 percent of GDP, the Russian finance minister said.

"Surveys show our standing around the world is higher than when I was elected to this office," U.S.President Barack Obama has said.

Earlier this month, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that 2016 will see the introduction of three powerful 'Voronezh'-series early warning radar systems. Adding to four stations of their type already in operation, the new systems' appearance will help lead, by 2020, to a full-scale modernization of the Russia's early warning radar network.

Rafis Kashapov, an activist from Russia's republic of Tatarstan, has filed a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg, challenging the sentence he was handed for voicing his disagreement with the annexation of Crimea in 2014, the Kommersant newspaper reported Tuesday.