Azerbaijani leader Ilham Aliyev has signed a decree to hold the vote a year earlier than planned The presidential election in Azerbaijan will be held next February instead of in 2025, President Ilham Aliyev announced on Thursday. Aliyev has led the country for the past 20 years, securing his fourth term in 2018.

The suspect was allegedly paid to get others to set fire to railway equipment across the country An alleged middleman said to have been paid by Ukrainian special services to recruit others for acts of sabotage has been taken into custody, the Russian FSB security service reported on Thursday. He stands accused of organizing 15…

New technologies are threatening an archaic financial system, according to the Russian president The Western financial system is becoming outdated because of new technologies and could lose its dominant global position in the near future, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.