Russia's Defence Ministry said on Friday that its forces had taken control of the strategic coal-mining city of Toretsk in eastern Ukraine, but Ukraine's military denied the city had been captured and ...

A country which has close historic ties to Russia is seeking to compel the Kremlin to court over an air disaster it has been ...

Azerbaijan closed a Russian cultural centre in Baku, the foreign ministry said Thursday, as ties with Moscow sour over claims Russian air defence systems hit an Azerbaijani plane mid-air, causing it ...

The incident with the passenger liner of Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) on December 25 in the airspace of Russia, at the ...

" ... Putin apologized for the tragic incident occurring in Russian airspace, expressed his deep and sincere condolences to the families of the victims ... but no responsibility for the crash was ...

Film director Anja Medved has long dwelled on the pain of her grandmother, who was separated from her family when the border ...

BAKU, Azerbaijan, February 5. Azerbaijan is building a case to take the AZAL plane crash in Aktau to an international court, ...

The Azerbaijani passenger plane that crashed on Christmas Day killing 38 people suffered external damage and was riddled with ...

According to Marat Karabayev, teams from Kazakhstan, Brazil, Russia, and Azerbaijan are taking part in the work ...

It's been 30 years since the first Chechen war when Moscow attacked the breakaway Chechen Republic, laying the capital, Grozny, to waste. Just as with the current war against Ukraine, Russia expected ...

Moscow apartment bomb kills pro-Putin collaborator as Kyiv strikes energy plants - A pro-Russian separatist, known to be a close associate of ousted Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, was the alle ...

Flights to and from Astrakhan suspended indefinitely due to recent and regular closure of airspace over the Russian city, ...