Society
31 May 2010 [16:47]
The Cabinet of Ministers has fixed benefits to victims of human trafficking to the amount of 200 manat, the Cabinet of Ministers said.
30 May 2010 [11:15]
On 27 of may, a picket was to be held near the Baku Zoo. The picket was arranged for people and especially the government, to pay more attention to the violence that homeless animals suffer from, almost every day.
29 May 2010 [11:45]
The concert marking Azerbaijan’s Republic Day took place in Oslo, Norway, the host of Eurovision 2010.
29 May 2010 [10:32]
Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy (ADA) held graduation ceremony for the Advanced Foreign Service Program.
29 May 2010 [10:08]
Public Union (NGO) "Ireli" has held a presentation of a film about Azerbaijan entitled "About Azerbaijan" in English today.
29 May 2010 [09:55]
28 May 2010 [14:25]
Iranian businessman was killed in Azerbaijan, the prosecutor’s office of Absheron Region said.
28 May 2010 [14:10]
Health condition of Azerbaijani citizen Aykhan Bakhtiyarov injured in explosion in the Stavropol stabilized, the Emergency Situations Ministry's Stavropol Center said. The center reported that Bakhtiyarov's health condition was estimated as crucial after the explosion, but now it is stabilized.
28 May 2010 [13:03]
The International Visegrad Fund, together with the Embassy of the Czech Republic presented on their grant programs and scholarships for Azerbaijan in Baku.
28 May 2010 [12:08]
28 May 2010 [11:50]
Azerbaijan's Ganja Central Library and US Charlotte Mecklenburg Library have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Mutual Cooperation.
27 May 2010 [23:15]
Today Azerbaijan marks the Day of the Republic.
27 May 2010 [18:54]
27 May 2010 [17:28]
Economic development minister of Azerbaijan Shahin Mustafayev and China's vice commerce minister Fu Ziying have signed today a $2.9 million grant agreement.
27 May 2010 [17:20]
The Islamic University of Azerbaijan has announced a competition for admission for the first time, chairman of the Azerbaijan State Students Admission Commission Maleyka Abbaszade said.
27 May 2010 [17:05]
27 May 2010 [16:46]
The Azerbaijani Communications and IT Ministry signed a contract with Orbital Sciences Corporation in connection with the production of the national telecommunications satellite Azerspace today.
27 May 2010 [16:31]
Azerbaijani citizens are supposed to be injured in an explosion n Aquarium Café in Stavropol, Russia, Health Minister of Stavropol Oblast Victor Mojarov said at a press conference.
27 May 2010 [16:22]
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27 May 2010 [14:55]
Christophe Bouvier, the Director of UN Environment Program (UNEP) Regional Office for Europe, will visit Baku to attend the World Environment Day events organized by the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan, the ministry’s source said.
27 May 2010 [14:47]
An international scientific conference themed "Topical problems of global research" was held at M. Lomonosov Moscow State University.
27 May 2010 [12:52]
27 May 2010 [12:44]
On May 26, BP Azerbaijan presented special scholarships to a group of students of the first and second year of the State Oil Academy of Azerbaijan.
27 May 2010 [11:55]
Chief doctor at the Azerbaijan Central Clinical Hospital Kamran Musayev has been elected a full member of the US Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) and awarded with diploma.
27 May 2010 [11:48]
27 May 2010 [11:11]
Students and teaching staff of the US University of Maryland have visited today the Environmental Department of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR).
27 May 2010 [10:53]
27 May 2010 [10:45]
On May 29th at 13:00 (local time), a picket will be held on one of the central streets of Baku.
27 May 2010 [10:40]
Azerbaijan's delegation led by President of the National Confederation of Entrepreneurs (Employers') Organizations Mammad Musayev has visited Istanbul, Turkey.
26 May 2010 [19:23]
26 May 2010 [18:40]
Pakistani residents illegally residing in Azerbaijan have been detained.
26 May 2010 [18:06]
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26 May 2010 [17:13]
Lately, media has reported many cases when corpses revive in morgues.
26 May 2010 [17:05]
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26 May 2010 [16:36]
The first dictionary of the Juhuri, language of the Mountain Jews, has been published in Azerbaijan.
26 May 2010 [15:53]
Ukraine wants to give Azerbaijani entrants a right to get education in Ukrainian universities, Consul of Ukraine in Azerbaijan Vitaly Kramarenko said at a joint press conference with a delegation from the Ukrainian Ministry of Education.
26 May 2010 [15:13]
Azeri Higher Commissioner for Human Rights Elmira Suleymanova has met Council of Europe Deputy Secretary General Maud de Boer-Buquicchio.
26 May 2010 [14:45]
Chairperson of the PACE Committee on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men, Jose Mendes Bota welcomed the law adopted by the Azerbaijani parliament on prevention of domestic violence.
26 May 2010 [14:36]
26 May 2010 [13:54]
National conference on pasture management was held at the central building of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources within the framework of the Ministry and UNDP joint project funded by the Government of Norway, UN Department of Public Information office in Azerbaijan said.
26 May 2010 [13:30]
Chief of Vishnevsky-Rostropovich Foundation Yelena Rostropovich, executive director William Amos and medical director Raul Vince arrived in Azerbaijan.
26 May 2010 [12:38]
The OSCE Office in Baku, Azerbaijan Milli Majlis and Ombudsman Office have co-organized a conference on strengthening the role of Azerbaijan's Commissioner for Human Rights (Ombudsman) as National Preventive Mechanism.
26 May 2010 [12:30]
Today in Istanbul (Turkey) the Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies of Azerbaijan and the Malaysian satellite operator MEASAT signed a long-term contract on leasing an orbital position for Azerbaijani satellite Azerspace, the ministry reported.
26 May 2010 [11:39]
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26 May 2010 [10:24]
Azerbaijan's Justice Minister Fikrat Mammadov has met Philippe Boillat, Director General of Human Rights and Legal Affairs of the Council of Europe.
26 May 2010 [09:15]
Chairman of the Azerbaijan State Committee on Work with the Diaspora Nazim Ibrahimov has met Anne-Marie Lizin, honorary president of the Belgian Senate, chairperson of the Foreign Relations and Defense Committee.
26 May 2010 [09:03]
Today, in Khatai district of Baku a murder took place, according to the General Police office of Baku.
26 May 2010 [08:47]
25 May 2010 [17:58]
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25 May 2010 [16:59]
The draft law on "Combating domestic violence and protecting of victims of domestic violence" is discussed in the first reading in the Azerbaijani Parliament.
25 May 2010 [16:19]
Why invisible? Because sometimes that’s exactly what we see in them – nothing.
25 May 2010 [16:11]
The water level decreased in the rivers in the Azerbaijani territory May 24, the Azerbaijani Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry reported.
25 May 2010 [15:26]
25 May 2010 [15:20]
25 May 2010 [14:44]
Young Azeri violinist Elvin Ganiyev has performed in Moscow at International Festival Moscow Welcomes Friends, organized by the Vladimir Spivakov International Charity Foundation.
25 May 2010 [14:37]
25 May 2010 [14:30]
The Azerbaijani Ministry of Health and the Georgian National Center for Public Health and Disease Control carried out joint measures to prevent malaria in the Azerbaijani village of Kesalo in Marneuli region (Eastern Georgia, Kvemo Kartli).
25 May 2010 [13:38]
25 May 2010 [12:40]
The second national forum of culturologists will be held June 3 at Baku Museum Center.
25 May 2010 [12:33]
The 87th session of International Maritime Organization's Maritime Safety Committee was held on May 12-21 in London.
25 May 2010 [12:22]
Condition of Azerbaijani, who injured as a result of traffic accident in Turkey May 24 is stabile, Azerbaijan's ambassador to Ankara Zakir Hashimov said.
25 May 2010 [12:10]
25 May 2010 [10:32]
Members of Azerbaijan's Parliament Rabiyyat Aslanova and Ali Huseynov have met chairman of the PACE Committee for Gender Equality Jose Mendes Bota.
25 May 2010 [09:48]
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24 May 2010 [18:20]
Azerbaijani Ecology and Natural Resources Minister Huseyngulu Bagirov said there are proposals to divide the Araz and Kur rivers in the Azerbaijani territory.
24 May 2010 [17:47]
Azerbaijani Ombudsman says more attention is paid to prisoners' health.