Russia & CIS

The trial of Gevorgyan family, which had fled to Azerbaijan, got underway Thursday in Armenia.

All in all, 500 tonnes of food products that fall under Russia’s anti-Western sanctions has been discarded and destroyed over the past week.

Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi says the Islamic Republic will continue research and development (R&D) activities in the field of nuclear energy, Press TV reports.

Official registered parties withholding an annual financial report in Azerbaijan has been named.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yury Trutnev said that construction for the Russian section of the first railway bridge to cross the Amur river and connect the country with China will begin in late 2015.

Missile divisions in Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula are readying for live-fire drills, according to the Ministry of Defense.

We must keep on reorienting NATO in terms of military capacities.

Bokova has made a statement.

Under the mandate of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, the contact line near Novoivanovka village of Gedebey district will be monitored on August 14, said the Defense Ministry, APA reports.

An apparent crack in an underwater pipeline in Moscow created a massive fire which sent a pillar of smoke hundreds of meters into the air.

Russian Minister of Agriculture Alexander Tkachev said Wednesday he supports the idea of destroying adulterated food products.

According to Russian state statistics service, Russia’s consumer price index has shown zero-rate growth for the third week in a row ending on August 10.

By 2016, the Russian Navy is set to substitute its British Tiger remote-controlled inspection vehicles, used for underwater search and rescue operations, with five advanced Marlin-350 remote controlled unmanned submersibles, made in Russia.

On Wednesday, cities across Russia and the fleets of the Russian Navy held ceremonies commemorating the 118 sailors who died when Russian nuclear submarine Kursk sank in the Barents Sea 15 years ago, on August 12, 2000.

The German tabloid Bild has been alarmed with pictures from the recent Russian naval aviation military exercises featuring bombs attached to Antonov An-26 military transport aircraft with WWII era-slogans such as “To Berlin!” and “For Stalin”.

The production of Tu-160 strategic bombers is going to be renewed; the new modernized versions are slated to enter service in 2021

The new Russian autonomous search and research submersibles will be produced exclusively in Russia with Russian parts, the general director of Tetis Pro told RIA Novosti.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin claims that Russia may introduce a system of automatic dependent surveillance for light aircraft on the basis of Russia's Glonass satellite navigation network.

The political games are full of all sorts of tricks: a friend today can become an enemy tomorrow, the publication wrote. It is the political elite who hangs the labels of 'good' and 'bad', and it is common people who suffer. The "bad guys" have the oil that the "good guys" need to live the way they live now to roll in clover