Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar told Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu in a phone call Monday that Armenian forces must immediately be removed from Azeri lands they occupy and halt attacks on civilians, Turkey’s ministry said, Reuters reported.
Azerbaijan would not wait another 30 years for a solution to the conflict...
Two police officers were killed on Tuesday in a shootout with militants in the capital of Russia’s southern region of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, the republic’s leader, wrote on social media, Reuters reported.
The National Anti-Terrorism Committee had reported the incident earlier, saying the militants had been planning to launch unspecified...
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko has discussed steps to implement agreements reached in Moscow between Azerbaijan and Armenia to reach a settlement in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh with U.S. co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group Andrew Schofer and Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for Nagorno-Karabakh Andrzej...
Belarusian police on Monday threatened to fire live bullets at protesters, claiming that opposition demonstrations against strongman Alexander Lukashenko were becoming ever more radicalized, as reported by The Moscow Times.
"Law enforcement officers and internal troops will not leave the streets and will use riot control equipment and lethal weapons...
The European Union on Monday agreed to move ahead with sanctions against Russian officials over the nerve agent poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, further complicating already fraught ties with Moscow, The Moscow Times reported.
Foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg agreed to sanctions proposals made last week by France and...
Bulgaria’s ambassador was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry on Monday in connection with the expulsion of two Russian diplomats from Bulgaria last month who had been accused of spying, Reuters said citing the RIA news agency.
Moscow had promised retaliatory measures after the diplomats were declared ‘personae non gratae’....
Over 700 troops and 100 items of military hardware will be involved in the Unbreakable Brotherhood 2020 drills of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) at the Losvido training range in the Vitebsk Region in Belarus on October 12-16, the Belarusian Defense Ministry reported on Friday, TASS writes.
"The drills...
Police in Russia’s Far East broke up a long-running anti-Kremlin protest with force on Saturday, detaining 25 people according to local authorities, in response to what they called an illegal attempt to erect protest tents in a central square, Reuters informed.
The demonstrations, in the city of Khabarovsk, have been...
A shaky ceasefire between Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces in Nagorno-Karabakh entered into force on Saturday after a deal was struck in Moscow between Baku and Yerevan to allow prisoners and the bodies of the dead to be exchanged, Reuters informs.
It was not immediately clear how long the ceasefire,...
Russia has not initiated any criminal proceedings against former Belarusian presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, she is on the wanted list only under agreements with the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the Russian Interior Ministry said on Thursday, as reported by Sputnik News.
"The Russian Federation's law enforcement agencies have not...
