Russia & CIS

The Baku 2015 Flame has arrived in the capital of Azerbaijan after completing a journey around 60 regions of the country and legendary Oil Rocks.

A light plane has crashed in the Stavropol Territory in southern Russia, killing its pilot.

A pilot in the remote Siberian town of Turukhansk blew off some steam by stealing a helicopter and using it to terrorize a nearby village after arguing with his wife and drinking.

Japanese citizens who previously lived in the southern Kuril Islands, as well as their relatives traveled to Iturup Island on Saturday for an annual visit under the framework of visa-free exchange between Russia and Japan.

Russia finalized the project of a new Combat Railway Missile Complex (BZhRK) that will multiply its nuclear potential and counter the US Conventional Prompt Global Strike, RG.ru reported.

The armor of Russia’s all-new Armata tank can effectively withstand all existing means of antitank warfare, an expert in steel alloys said on Saturday.

A Russian naval flotilla docked at the Mediterranean port of Alexandria on Saturday for the first time since a Pacific Fleet missile cruiser visited Egypt in 2013.

"Agreement was reached on the development of human potential."

A Russian defence ministry satellite launched by a Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket from the Plesetsk spaceport has been successfully put into designated orbit, Dmitry Zenin, a spokesman for the Russian space defence forces, said on Friday.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday blasts in Diyarbakir were aimed at overshadowing Sunday's Turkish parliamentary elections.

Armenian armed forces violated ceasefire 82 times on various parts of the frontline in a day.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says any attempts to revise the framework of a potential deal on Iran’s nuclear program, which was reached in the Swiss city of Lausanne in April, will result in the failure of efforts to reach a final agreement.

Russia is obliged to react to the threats from the side of NATO and the United States, Russian president Vladimir Putin.

In cooperation with the Baku-2015 European Games Operation Committee, the European Azerbaijan Society (TEAS), and the Nitsa National Sports Museum, France’s National Olympic and Sports Committee opened the photo-exhibition “Azerbaijan – Sport in Focus".

The Baku 2015 European Games has signed an agreement with Fox Sports Africa to bring the inaugural European Games to its viewers in 25 countries and territories.

The volume of oil transported by the BTC pipeline has been made public.

The 6th International Maiden Tower Arts Festival will be held in Baku on June 11-14, AzerTag reports.

The official flame of the inaugural European Games has been welcomed to Khirdalan by hundreds of local residents, who then took part in a spectacular Festival of Fire in the city center.

Soldier Allahyar Mammadov died at N military unit of the civil defense troops of the Emergency Ministry.

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has sent a letter of congratulations to King of Sweden Carl XVI Gustaf on the occasion of the National Day of the Kingdom of Sweden.