Russia & CIS

Moscow and Beijing are planning to enhance their cooperation in space research and conduct joint manned space missions, particularly, to the moon. The US does not trust these plans, fearing that China and Russia could work on an anti-satellite weapon.

358 kilograms of drugs and 3,620 cannabis plants were burnt

Defense Ministry has disseminated an information.

Marine Le Pen was seen entering the building of the Russian Parliament as she arrived for meetings in Moscow.

AZPROMO has released information.

The reception will start at 11:00, the ministry said.

The Islamic State militant group’s foreign-language media branch has launched an online magazine in Russian to target the country’s large Muslim community, a US-based monitoring organization said Tuesday.

As Great Britain has now invited Russia to participate in the fight against terrorism, the West seems to have realized that confrontation with Russia has no good endings. However, both countries are organizing major military maneuvers to preserve the facade of the conflict and not to give the impression of weakness, DWN wrote.

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has officially informed the Russian Embassy in Kiev that access to the two Russian nationals detained by Ukrainian forces would be granted, Ukrainian Foreign Ministry envoy Dmytros Kuleba said at a briefing on Tuesday.

The BRICS countries – Russia, India, China, Brazil and South Africa – find themselves in a special risk zone, facing the threat of artificial exacerbation of ethnic tensions inside each of them, the head of Russia’s Security Council warned Tuesday.

On Saturday, the Security Service of Ukraine disseminated information to the press that Ukraine had never received a request from Moscow to meet with the two Russians detained on May 16.

"The Southern Gas Corridor is not at all a project aimed at our promotion."

A scandal has broken out during a Nagorno-Karabakh event organized by the Armenian diaspora in Paris.

On May 27-28, the capital city of Al-Kuwait will host the 42nd session of the foreign ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).

The wildfire area in southern Siberia has grown by 20% over the past 24 hours to 32,000 hectares in mountain taiga and steppes of Buryatia, a spokesperson for the local forestry agency said on Tuesday.

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says the Iranian nation supports peace and constructive interaction with the world, stressing that the era of violence and extremism has drawn to a close.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev congratulated the newly elected President of Poland Andrzej Duda.

Tanks and armored vehicles, based on the Armata and Bumerang combat platforms, air defense missile batteries and other military hardware will soon be deployed in Russia’s Arctic regions, the Southern Military District’s press service announced on Tuesday.

"Azerbaijan is not satisfied with the EU association agreement".

Lawyers for President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan have dropped complaints about two of the 13 suspects in a case into wiretapping against him during his time as prime minister.