Russia & CIS

A little white cat called ChaCha is the feline mascot of the small café “Murai Bankoen” in the city of Iga in Mie Prefecture, Japan.

Five teams have qualified to compete in a $30 million Google-backed competition to land and operate robotic spacecraft on the surface of the moon, the XPrize Foundation said on Tuesday.

Two senior officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) have been sent into retirement.

Two countries also agree on 13.3 percent discount on gas prices.

Ankara wants Bosnia to transfer control of FETO schools to Maarif Foundation, says deputy parliamentary speaker.

Russia’s Yandex will open a representative office in Azerbaijan in the near future, a source close to the matter told Trend.

The policy carried out by dictatorship in Armenia is leading the country to a disaster, depriving the Armenians, particularly the youth, of their future, Hikmat Hajiyev, spokesman for Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry, told Trend Jan. 24.

Another 11,000 families living in Georgia will be supplied with gas, APA cited the government’s press service as saying on Tuesday.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has issued a decree, APA reports.

The settlement of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict was discussed by the Azerbaijani and Armenian foreign ministers in Moscow on Tuesday.

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev has signed an order on additional measures to restore the liberated Cocuq Mercanli village of Jabrail district.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has signed an order on the 25th anniversary of the Khojaly genocide.

The Central Bank of Azerbaijan has announced USD/AZN rate for January 25.

In 2016, eighty six percent of the products manufactured by enterprises of Azerbaijan’s Defense Industry Ministry made defense and special-purpose products, and fourteen percent was civil products.

The Central Bank of Turkey has increased the upper limit of the interest corridor from 8.5% to 9.25%.

More than 1,600 terror suspects were arrested in Turkey last week, the Interior Ministry said Monday.

Obama has destroyed USA's relations with Russia. Will Donald Trump try to restore them? Russia needs cooperation, rather than bargaining with the USA. Judging from the fact that the Americans will not be present at the Syria talks in Astana, Trump wants to cooperate - he would not have missed an opportunity to bargain on Ukraine and Syria otherwise

Ukraine filed a lawsuit against Russia at the International Court of Justice. Kiev intends to hold Russia accountable for committing acts of terrorism and discrimination during its illegal aggression against Ukraine. Can anyone imagine that the UN Security Council may decide to deploy troops in the Crimea to meet Ukraine's requirements?

The foreign ministers of Russia and Armenia Sergey Lavrov and Edward Nalbandian on Thursday held a meeting in Moscow, APA reports citing RIA Novosti.

Russian economy is likely to face a large inflow of international investments in the near future, Russia's First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said on Thursday.