Slovak Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak will visit Baku from November 27-28, where he will take part in the inauguration of the republic's embassy in Azerbaijan, and then, as the current Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe's (OSCE) chairperson-in-office, he will visit eastern Ukraine from November 28-29, including the contact line in Donbas region, Slovak Foreign Ministry spokesman Boris Gandel told Sputnik

Nepal seeks full membership of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) where it is currently a dialogue partner, the country's foreign minister, Pradeep Kumar Gyawali told Sputnik

Chief of the Russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov and NATO Military Committee Chairman Stuart Peach will meet in Baku, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry told Sputnik on Tuesday

The 5th Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) is scheduled to start in the Equatoguinean capital city of Malabo on Tuesday and run through Friday

Russian upper house speaker Valentina Matviyenko on Saturday thanked the Azerbaijani authorities for their positive attitude toward the Russian language

Armenian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Anna Naghdalyan confirmed on Saturday an exchange of visits by Armenian and Azerbaijani journalists under the coordination of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday he expected to meet with his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev on December 20 in St. Petersburg

Russian President Vladimir Putin will welcome Azerbaijan's First Vice President Mehriban Aliyeva to the Kremlin for talks on Friday

Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a meeting with Azerbaijani First Vice President Mehriban Aliyeva on Friday in Russia, the Kremlin said

The recent attack by the Islamic State terror group (IS, banned in Russia) on a border-crossing checkpoint in Tajikistan indicates that terrorist threat coming from Afghanistan remains real in the region, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov said during a UN-Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) high-level meeting