Society
05 May 2007 [13:21]
The isolators will be built in Ali Bayramli and Khurdakhani, said Justice Ministry Penitentiary Service chief Nazim Alakbarov.
05 May 2007 [13:13]
The level of Kur River is to fall due to the nonsludging weather in Georgia and Azerbaijan.
05 May 2007 [13:05]
World Bank and Education Ministry will sign one more agreement on the development of education.
05 May 2007 [13:03]
Chief of the State Committee for Religious Communities Hidayat Orujov and Sheikh-ul-Islam Hajji Allahshukur Pashazade, chairman of the Caucasian Muslims Office will visit northern Azerbaijani regions soon.
05 May 2007 [13:02]
State Veterinary Service under Agriculture Ministry announced the results of bird flu monitoring held on April 23-27.
05 May 2007 [12:58]
Stable weather forecasted in Azerbaijan in the nearest days, deputy director of National Hydrometeorological Department of Ecology and Tourism Ministry Umayra Tagiyeva told.
05 May 2007 [12:56]
Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry announced competition among journalists on the best articles, television report on ecological theme on June 5 - World Environment Day aiming to protect environment, natural resources, preserve biodiversity, raise public awareness.
05 May 2007 [12:44]
Azerbaijani President issued an executive order on the financial aid to the participants of World War II, widows of fallen soldiers and workers of home front during wartime.
05 May 2007 [12:32]
German-Azerbaijan society will mark the 70th anniversary of the novel "Ali and Nino" in Baku on September 28-29.
05 May 2007 [12:30]
25-year-old Georgian citizen Ramin Alakbarov wanted by Dmanisi Police has been detained in Baku under article 178 (robbery) of the Criminal Code of Georgia.
05 May 2007 [12:29]
Defense Ministry web-site is being prepared.
05 May 2007 [11:44]
"Azerbaijani cultural heritage list is being analyzed. The working group composed of Culture and Tourism Ministry representatives visit the regions every week to study the archaeological excavations and the monuments in the list and also those which are not in the list," Minister Abulfas Garayev told journalists.
05 May 2007 [11:43]
The appeal of the editor of Gundelik Azerbaijan newspaper Uzeyir Jafarov, who was injured as a result of assault on April 20 to prosecutor General Zakir Garalov on transferring the criminal case from Yasamal police department to prosecutor's bodies, can be granted.
04 May 2007 [16:43]
A new district for internally displaced persons has been opened in Ramana settlement of Sabunchu, Baku. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev participated in the opening of the district.
04 May 2007 [16:28]
Azerbaijani junior taekwondo team has returned to the country after training camp in Tehran, Iran.
04 May 2007 [16:27]
A court in Baku has sentenced two journalists to jail terms for insulting Islam.
04 May 2007 [13:56]
We are going to struggle in European championship to gain higher ranks, stated Rauf Bunyadeliyev, president of Azerbaijan Bodybuilding Federation.
04 May 2007 [13:55]
Two men arrested on the incident occurred while the process of puling down meat shops in Yeni Yasamal district of Baku.
04 May 2007 [13:53]
Azerbaijani pro boxer gained victory in boxing evening organized by Colosseum Box Promotions in St. Petersburg, Russia.
04 May 2007 [13:46]
The trial on appeal of former chief of Nizami district police office Mushfig Medetov and two more prisoners ended in the Supreme Court.
04 May 2007 [13:44]
"We are not afraid of match against Armenia," said Azeri U-17 head coach Yashar Vahabzade.
04 May 2007 [13:41]
Azerbaijan's Public Television will broadcast live Eurovision-2007 song contest to be held in the Finnish capital of Helsinki.
04 May 2007 [12:57]
Azerbaijani U-17 squad will play against Armenian team in 1st Black Sea Games on July 5.
04 May 2007 [12:54]
An early morning fire in a psychiatric hospital in southern Russia Friday killed three people and injured 12 others, officials said, while a gas explosion in another part of the country killed five people in an apartment house.
04 May 2007 [12:40]
"I am pleased to be in Baku. I have travelled 130 countries. It is my third visit to Azerbaijan. I have warm relations with friends in this country," International and European Bodybuilding Federation (IFBB, EFBB) president Rafael Santonja stated today at the press conference.
04 May 2007 [11:42]
Aghali Alishov who received a bullet wound during the incident at the Peoples' Friendship University in Moscow, is to be released from hospital in a week.
04 May 2007 [11:22]
UM WELT FILM leadership, producer Ralf Marshallek and poetess Nuride Ateshi, director of the Nizami Ganjavi Azerbaijani Culture Institute in Germany signed a contract on cooperation in the film "Mahammad Asad Bey."
04 May 2007 [11:14]
2012 European junior and adult karate championship will be held Baku.
04 May 2007 [09:27]
Azerbaijan Delegation will also participate in the 6th meeting of the Steering Committee for Culture of the Council of Europe (CDCULT) scheduled for May 9-11 in Strasbourg.
03 May 2007 [18:20]
Chief of Azerbaijani Committee against Torture Elchin Behbudov met with former Health Minister Ali Insanov and editor-in-chief of Gundalik Azerbaijan newspaper Eynulla Fetullayev in Bayil detention place #1, the committee chief told.
03 May 2007 [17:56]
Azerbaijani journalists held a picket in front of Yasamal cemetery, where Elmar Huseynov, assassinated editor-in-chief of Monitor journal was buried, to mark 3 May-World Press Freedom Day.
03 May 2007 [16:49]
Volgograd security agencies detained a female passenger of a Tupolev-134 passenger jet who had threatened to set off an explosive device while the plane heading for Volgograd was still in midair.
03 May 2007 [16:13]
The prisoners going on hunger strike in Gubustan Jail break the regime rules.
03 May 2007 [13:24]
Perched high on a cliff side in the remote borderlands of eastern Georgia, the ancient Davit Gareji monastery hardly seems the kind of place that could be at the center of a modern-day diplomatic dispute.
03 May 2007 [11:59]
German embassy in Azerbaijan announced for applications to "International Parliament Scholarship" (IPS) program of German Bundestag.
03 May 2007 [09:54]
Norwegian center has been opened in Azerbaijan State University of Languages.
03 May 2007 [09:52]
The 10 countries where the Committee to Protect Journalists says press freedoms have most deteriorated over the last five years.
03 May 2007 [09:48]
Azerbaijani Education Minister Misir Mardanov will leave for Turkey.
03 May 2007 [09:43]
Editor of Gundelik Azerbaijan newspaper Uzeyir Jafarov, injured as a result of assault on April 20 appealed to Prosecutor General Zakir Garalov on transferring the criminal case from Yasamal police department to prosecutor’s bodies, the editor told.
03 May 2007 [09:29]
The villagers of the Salyan region used to make a living hunting ducks and geese that live in the lush wetlands. But since February 2006, when there was an outbreak of avian influenza in Azerbaijan and seven people died, a hunting ban has been in place.
03 May 2007 [09:17]
Azerbaijan's Court of Appeals presided over by Judge Ramella Allahverdiyeva kept the decision of court of grave crimes on attackers to to Zumrud and Markiz jewelry shops – Khosrov and Nasir Efendiyevs, Elbrus Mammadov, Elyar Salahov and Ilgar Mammadov in force.
03 May 2007 [09:15]
The Agstafa and Kyur rivers flooded as a result of incessant rain in Azerbaijani western region. The level of water in Agstafachay reservoir reached to the maximum degree.
03 May 2007 [09:04]
Gobustan and Neftchala residents dealing with fishing in wooden boat 3 thousand meters from the Caspian Sea shore could not return because of windy weather.
02 May 2007 [21:32]
Azerbaijan's Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry publicized some reports taken from Armenian sources to determine foreign companies plundering natural resources in Nagorno Karabakh and other occupied regions.
02 May 2007 [16:20]
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev has issued an executive order on establishment of "Yanar dagh" (Burning Mountain) state historical-cultural and nature reserve.
02 May 2007 [16:18]
Health condition of Azerbaijani student Aghali Alishov injured during the scuffle between Azerbaijanis and Armenians in the People's Friendship University in Moscow is stable.
02 May 2007 [16:11]
Education Ministry will ban use of mobile phones at schools, Misir Mardanov told the journalists.
02 May 2007 [15:36]
Draft project on education will be debated in the session of Azerbaijani Parliament scheduled on May 18, chief of Parliamentary Science and Education Commission Shamsaddin Hajiyev said.
02 May 2007 [14:59]
Youth Center Public Union and Baku Youth and Sport Head Office organized conference "Role of youth in implementation of State Program for socio-economic development of regions" on occasion of Heydar Aliyev's 84th anniversary and 2007 - Youth Year.
02 May 2007 [13:41]
National television and Radio Council will ban broadcasting films in foreign languages in Azerbaijani TV channels as from January 1, 2008, the TV channels are prepared to broadcast films only in Azerbaijani.
02 May 2007 [13:11]
The First Belarus National Exhibition has today started in Baku. Belarus' Commerce and Industry Chamber deputy chair Yuri Lositiski said the event is the first-ever unique show of his country in the region and Azerbaijan.
02 May 2007 [12:54]
Injured are reported after the incident between Azerbaijanis and Armenians in the Peoples' Friendship University after Patricia Lumumba in Moscow.
02 May 2007 [09:47]
An Azeri student scored the most points in the Medical Specialization Examination (TUS), one of the most difficult examinations in Turkey.
02 May 2007 [09:45]
Kazakh officials have blamed the deaths of more than 800 seals off its Caspian Sea coastline on an abnormally warm winter and the early melting of sea ice.
02 May 2007 [09:44]
Azerbaijani-Israeli relations gained a boost last month with the formation of AZIS, an organization of olim from the former Soviet republic state.
02 May 2007 [09:17]
The human rights working group composed of government representatives and rights defenders is expected to gather in connection with the draft law on Amnesty act submitted to the Parliament on the initiative of president of Heydar Aliyev Foundation, parliamentarian Mehriban Aliyeva.
02 May 2007 [09:16]
The trial on appeal of former police chief of Nizami district Mushfig Medetov was again postponed.
02 May 2007 [09:11]
US Navy Band will give concert in Baku Jazz Center on May 11.
02 May 2007 [09:08]
Narimanov Court dismissed the claim of Independent Azerbaijan University's (IAU) students against five higher schools, Education Ministry and Republic military registration and enlistment office.
02 May 2007 [09:06]
Elchin Behbudov, chairman of the Committee against Torture will demand the punishment of three police officers accused of three torture cases against detainees.
01 May 2007 [21:54]
Tried president of Barmek-Azerbaijan Electricity Distribution LLC, Huseyn Arabul, whose health suddenly deteriorated in the Court of Serious Crimes today and hospitalized in Turk-American Medial Center, has been released from the clinic.
01 May 2007 [21:21]
The suit brought by former health minister Ali Insanov against President's Office socio-political department chief Ali Hasanov was dismissed, Togrul Babayev, lawyer for Ali Insanov told.
01 May 2007 [18:11]
Azerbaijani judo squad to join World Super Cup to take place in Moscow, Russia, has been revealed.
01 May 2007 [17:47]
Russia applied to Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry on the National Television and Radio Council's decision to stop the broadcasting of ORT and RTR TV channels.
01 May 2007 [16:33]
The scheduled march of journalists on the route from "Azerbaijan" editorial Office to the grave of Elmar Huseynov, assassinated editor-in-chief of "Monitor" journal, on the World Press Freedom Day on May 3 has been postponed.
01 May 2007 [10:54]
Azerbaijan Handball Federation (AHF) officials participated in 31st International Handball Federation congress in Madrid, Spain.
01 May 2007 [10:31]
On April 26 a major international conference, "The Role of Media in the Promotion of Tolerance and Understanding," opened in Baku, Azerbaijan.
01 May 2007 [09:45]
The presentation of the translated variant of the book entitled "Grand Prix for murderer" by writer Chingiz Abdullayev was held in Book Club’s Exhibition Saloon. The work described Azerbaijan's reality in detective genre was translated by Elshan Aliyev.
01 May 2007 [09:04]
Azerbaijani male judo wrestlers have won 3 gold and a silver medal in World Cup held in Rome, Italy.
30 April 2007 [17:00]
34 road accidents occurred in Baku last week, which killed three and injured 40.
30 April 2007 [15:59]
Closed curt proceeding was held on case of soldier Vusal Garachayev at Military Court of Gave Crimes.
30 April 2007 [15:35]
Monitoring will be held on bird flu in May in Azerbaijan, State Veterinary Service under Agriculture Ministry told.
30 April 2007 [14:49]
The temperature is forecasted to fall by 1-2 degrees from tomorrow, Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry National Hydrometeorological department bureau director Imran Mammadov.
30 April 2007 [14:05]
Journalist Tatyana Chaladze was interrogated by Yasamal district police office investigator Rafig Aliyev on the testimonies of the chief editor of Gundalik Azerbaijan newspaper Uzeyir Jafarov who was attacked by unidentified people on April 20.
30 April 2007 [14:04]
Azerbaijani Interior Ministry found a great amount of arms during "Border-shield" operation carried out in the northern regions bordering with Russia last week.
Azerbaijani companies forge economic ties with Latvia, Estonia, and Finland in trade mission
Deputy Minister unveils bilateral investment figures between Azerbaijan, Latvia
Armenian churches substitute political will of country's faded opposition
Azerbaijani servicemen accomplish tasks of next stage of Anatolian Phoenix - 2024 exercise [VIDEO]
Training on "Climate Changes and COP" holds for 100 NGOs
AFSA head says export procedures of food products to China, EU simplified
ICESCO Director-General draws attention to digital literacy promotion