They put the guns in Guns and Roses. The Azerbaijan military has released a bizarre heavy metal music video touting their war weapons and featuring lot of explosions amid a violent dispute with its neighbor Armenia. The guitar-shredding propaganda tune “Atəş”— or “Fire” — was performed by a group of …

The verdict was met with widespread relief. Magda Fyssa, whose son Pavlos Fyssas, an anti-fascist rapper, was stabbed to death by a senior party operative, and who attended almost every court session over the past five and half years, screamed with emotion. “Pavlos did it! My son,” she wailed outside …

The principles of managing infectious disease outbreaks, whether of measles, tuberculosis or Covid-19, are similar. You identify who has been infected by testing for the disease, discover where they acquired the infection and who may have also been infected through contact tracing, and stop the spread by asking those affected …

MINSK /TASS/. The situation in Minsk on Thursday morning is calm and nothing reminds of the protests that broke out on Wednesday after Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s inauguration. Traffic on central highways and roads leading to the downtown Belarusian capital is normal for a Thursday morning, according to a TASS …

It has been just over a year since Volodymyr Zelenskyy surprised the world by winning a landslide victory in Ukraine’s presidential election with over 70% of the ballot. “I will never let you down” the former actor turned politician said, as he took office. His best known role was playing the President …

Izvestia: Putin, Lukashenko agree on new $1.5-bln loan Belarus will be getting a $1.5-bln loan from Russia. Part of this money will go to refinancing old debts, the Kremlin said following a meeting between both leaders in Sochi. That said, Minsk owes Moscow $270 mln for gas alone. Russia has …

Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine “Sputnik V” is effective against any dose of the novel coronavirus, Alexander Ginzburg, director of the Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology told reporters on Friday. The vaccine’s immune response documented currently among volunteers is enough to counter any dose of COVID-19 that you could imagine, …

Many foreign leaders note Russia’s achievements in the fight against the coronavirus, Russian President Vladimir Putin told a meeting with the Cabinet on Wednesday.  “Almost all of them, many of them note that trends in the fight against coronavirus in Russia are mostly positive, but in some nations they represent …

Under pressure on the last day of the Democratic convention, Joe Biden “hit a home run” with an “enormously effective” speech that blew “a big hole” in Donald Trump’s efforts to paint him as a mentally faltering captive of his party’s left wing. And that was to hear Fox News …

Former candidate for Belarus’ president Svetlana Tikhanovskaya said on Friday she doesn’t plan to run for president again in case of rerun elections. “I don’t have such plans,” she said in an interview with the Belsat television channel when asked whether she or her husband would run for president in …