Russia & CIS

Europe is experiencing crisis.

“We would not want to lose. But our opponent is a really good team. But our players also made mistakes", the head coach of Karabakh FC Gurban Gurbanov said, APA reports quoting “apasport.az”.

Security operations against the PKK terrorists will continue until all armed groups in Turkey are “eliminated”, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Wednesday.

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has attended the opening of Aghsu-Kurdamir part of Aghsu-Kurdamir-Imishli highway.

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is lending EUR 50 million to the International Bank of Azerbaijan (IBA) to finance projects promoted by SMEs and midcaps in the country.

The latest version of Russia’s BMP-3 Dragun armored vehicle became a major attention grabber at the Russia Arms Expo which has just wrapped up in Nizhny Tagil.

Russia would require at least five Project 22220 nuclear-powered icebreakers for Arctic exploration, the deputy head for development of state company Atomflot, an icebreaker service and maintenance company, said Thursday.

Earlier this week, Russia's Northern Fleet's exercises involving warships and submarines commenced in the country's northwest.

China and Russia’s increasing confidence and modernizing military are ‘concerning,’ even ‘disconcerting,’ the head of the US Air Force in the Pacific, Gen. Lori Robinson said.

The designers of Russia’s T-14 Armata main battle tank have unveiled more details of what is arguably the best armored vehicle ever built.

Russia has been receiving signals from NATO indicating its desire to restore some channels of bilateral cooperation, Russia’s envoy to the Western defense alliance said on Wednesday.

A vast global ocean of water exists between the icy crust and core of Saturn’s 6th largest moon Enceladus, NASA’s Cassini Mission data reveals.

Two famous Russian pranksters claim to have made a prank call to singer Sir Elton John in which they pretended to be Russian President Vladimir Putin.

A Mi-24 helicopter crash-landed at an airfield in Central Russia.

Argentine sailors have arrived in Russia to get four ice-class tugboats of the Neftegaz type.

The General Director of ‘Uralvagonzavod’ Corporation, Oleg Sienko, said that the cost to mass produce the T-14 Armata will be 250 million rubles (3.7 million dollars).

The summit of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) finished in Dushanbe. Russia is concerned about the current state of affairs in Afghanistan and the lack of results despite the presence of NATO in the country. At the CSTO summit, Putin offered to strengthen the military presence in Central Asia

The Syrian refugee crisis could become the perfect excuse for a “humanitarian intervention” by a Washington-led coalition, but Russia is in a position to prevent such developments, writes former Indian ambassador to Uzbekistan and Turkey and columnist for Asia Times Melkulangara Bhadrakumar.

Keeping a balance between resource development of the Arctic region and the conservation of its fragile ecosystem is a key priority for Russia, the country's president, Vladimir Putin, said Wednesday.

On Saturday, John told the BBC that he would like to meet with Putin to discuss his attitude to gay rights. Earlier in the day, the musician thanked Putin “for reaching out and speaking via telephone” in a message on his account in Instagram.