Russia & CIS

Azerbaijani athlete Yashar Aliyev (57kg) has defeated his Armenian opponent Garik Barseghyan in a 10-6 win in the 1/4 finals of the freestyle wrestling competitions among men as part of the first European Games in Baku on Wednesday, according to APAsport.

Competitions in rhythmic gymnastics have started at the Gymnastics Arena.

The music choice was the theme to Van Helsing and Russia once again showed that, behind the synchro smiles, they can suck the life out of any opposition in the pool.

Iranian Vice President Masoumeh Ebtekar says Tehran seeks a fair and balanced nuclear agreement with the P5+1 group.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has signed an order on conferring the Sheref (Honor) Order upon Patrick Hickey, the president of the European Olympic Committees, Minister of Youth and Sports Azad Rahimov told APA on June 17.

A woman has been quarantined in Russia’s Far Eastern Primorsky Territory on suspicion that she may be infected with MERS.

The Russian Emergencies Ministry will help deliver humanitarian aid provided by Cyprus to Ukraine’s southeast.

A representative of the Saudi Arabian Navy says that the International military exhibition Army-2015 that kicked off Tuesday in Moscow region is a good opportunity to see Russian military equipment.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that if someone threatens Russian territories, Moscow will have to aim its armed forces at the territories from which the threat is coming from.

Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that Russian Armed Forces would receive more than 40 intercontinental ballistic missiles in 2015. The new missiles would be capable of overcoming any, even most technically advanced missile defense systems, Putin also said. Russia has also developed a new amphibious ship to replace the French Mistrals

More than 1,800 training flights will reportedly be made by pilots of an aviation regiment of the Su-25SM attack aircraft stationed in Russia's Southern Military District before the end of this year.

The public inquiry into the death by radiation poisoning of Russian ex-intelligence services officer Alexander Litvinenko is to take video testimony from Dmitri Kovtun, one of two men he met in a sushi bar in London just hours before being taken ill.

Russia opened its 'military supermarket' in the Moscow region on Tuesday, with representatives from over 70 countries expected to shop for arms and equipment.

Venezuelan military experts have been invited to monitor a Russian artillery military exercise in Siberia, which will involve over 300 servicemen and over 150 missile artillery units, including military and special hardware.

A report in the Sunday Times, alleging British operatives were put at risk from information obtained from Edward Snowden's cache of leaked documents, is being torn to pieces as the worst kind of journalism in the service of government fear-mongering.

Russia is ready to take part in the construction of the third unit of Finland’s Loviisa Nuclear Power Plant, the Russian presidential press service said Monday.

More than 400 Chechen volunteers left Russia to join the fighting in Syria on the side of the Islamic State since the beginning of the war in that region. The fate of most of them for the moment is unknown.

Russian Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Denis Khramov said that Russia plans to submit an application to the United Nations this summer on expanding its Arctic shelf border.

According to Central Bank’s head, bank forecasts unemployment in the country to grow from the current 5.6 percent to 6.5 percent by the end of 2015.

The regulator said it would continue to lower key rates in pace with the slowing of inflation rates in the country.