Russia & CIS

A gun with a firing range far exceeding all existing analogues, unique fire-control electronics and a modern superfast loading system – these are just a few features that make Russia’s Koalitsiya-SV self-propelled howitzer one of the most powerful and accurate around.

A final batch of upgraded T-72 tanks has been supplied to the armed forces by Russia’s flagship tank and fighting vehicles maker Ualvagonzavod.

Crimean Tatars condemn the anti-Russian policy of the Turkish government and demand urgent moves to resolve the conflict between the two countries, a public movement of the ethnic Tatars living on the Black Sea peninsula said in a resolution on Saturday.

Russia's assertive stance in settling the four-year Syrian civil war has left Washington with no choice but to negotiate, taking Moscow's interests into account, say analysts from US think tank Stratfor.

Unconfirmed reports suggesting that Russia plans to expand its presence in Syria, and rumors regarding a possible airbase in Belarus, have been swirling around in the Russian and Western media in recent months. How much truth is there in these rumors, and where is Russia's military power abroad really concentrated?

Еhe Russian Long-Range Air Force deputy commander said that Russia’s prospective complex of distant aviation, a proposed next-generation strategic bomber design, will carry out its first flight in 2020-2021 and four years later will be delivered to the army.

Russia has more cutting-edge military capabilities ready for use against terrorist group in Syria, the Russian President said on Saturday.

Vladimir Putin said Russian security services revealed over 320 employees and agents of foreign intelligence agencies in 2015.

Vladimir Putin said that Russian security services have prevented over 30 crimes of terrorist nature in 2015.

According to Mission Control Center, Russian Progress-M28M cargo spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) after delivering supplies and will now be drowned in the so-called spacecraft cemetery in the Pacific Ocean.

Vladimir Putin demonstrated "the strengths of his personality" at the annual three-hour presidential press conference this week, Fred Weir from the news organization Christian Science Monitor told Sputnik.

As the United Nations Security Council passes a resolution to end the five-year civil war in Syria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov praised the agreement, while stressing the role of the Syrian people in determining their own future.

Top officials from the International Society of Air Safety Investigators (ISASI) have noted high transparency and efficiency of procedures involving the opening and data decoding of the flight recorder from a Russian warplane downed by Turkey over Syria, the Moscow-based Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC or MAK) said Friday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin holds his large press conference in Moscow on December 17. In the beginning of the press conference, Putin spoke about the current state of affairs in the Russian economy. The falling oil prices seriously affected the Russian economy and all of its key indicators. GDP fell by 3.7%, the inflation rate made up 12.3%

An army base is a serious status, an element of long-term strategic planning that ensures economic and public safety to several countries, while entailing certain challenges. The question about the Russian army base in the second largest city of Kyrgyzstan - Osh - had been repeatedly discussed at the top level in both countries over the years

Thank God, the war is not hot yet. All provocations that we can witness these days have the purpose to shape public opinion in the world. The recent story with Russia's Smetlivy warship is another proof of that. Russian officials want Russia to be the country that does nothing but makes excuses. Here is how it happens

Hours after the Russian Defense Ministry reported an incident in the northern Aegean Sea, Turkey’s Foreign Minister said his country was “not in favor of tension”.

Search is underway for 23 oilmen who went missing after the fire on SOCAR's offshore platform and for another three oil workers missing after the recent accident in Oil Rocks, SOCAR Azneft PU told APA-Economics.

Well-known Italian singer Eros Ramazotti, for the first time, will give a concert in Baku on 24 April 2016.