Society
13 May 2006 [08:55]
Masazir, Boyuk-Shor, Mirzaladi, Kurdakhani, Puta, Girmizi, Shor, Gizil Nohur and Haji-Hasan lakes are polluted due to lack of centralized sewerage system in residential area.
12 May 2006 [23:11]
The Constitution Day of Norway will be celebrated in Baku.
12 May 2006 [22:57]
200 mln persons are drug addict over the world, 18 000 of them are in Azerbaijan.
12 May 2006 [22:28]
The CIS Interstate Aviation Committee experts are investigating the fragments of the flight recorder of An-140-100 plane, which crashed in Nardaran, Azerbaijan in December last year.
12 May 2006 [13:47]
Azerbaijani citizen Mushfig Faig Mammadov, member of "Jehovah's Witnesses" religious community has been arrested for evading the draft.
12 May 2006 [11:40]
Mount Vernon teachers travel to Azerbaijan over Spring Break.
12 May 2006 [10:50]
Azerbaijan National Security Ministry (MNS) neutralized an organized gang, which smuggled illicit drugs via Iran-Azerbaijan-Russia route.
12 May 2006 [10:23]
Transparency International, in close cooperation with ABA/CEELI, will present its latest quarterly report and discuss recent successes at the Anti Corruption Legal Advocacy Center in Ganja on Friday, May 12, 2006 at 4.00 pm.
12 May 2006 [10:14]
Armenians are illegally exploiting 155 kinds of various mineral deposits at the occupied Azerbaijani territories.
12 May 2006 [08:44]
Beginning from tomorrow and the day after tomorrow regarding to increase of water level in Araz Water Reservoir, the level of Kur is expected to increase.
12 May 2006 [08:13]
Azeri Education Ministry has announced the list of illegally functioning higher schools in Azerbaijan.
11 May 2006 [20:59]
Five American teenagers took home hardware from the 2006 Aliyev Cup, May 6-10 in Baku, Azerbaijan.
11 May 2006 [20:54]
Andy Keogh scored the first goals of his Republic of Ireland Under-21 career to secure a superb result for manager Don Givens' side.
11 May 2006 [15:52]
Kwon Yang Sook, spouse of the President of South Korea visited State Museum of Azerbaijan Carpet and People Applied Art, May 11.
11 May 2006 [13:27]
A delegation comprising of Turan Morali, Ambassador of Turkey to Azerbaijan, members of the Great National Assembly of Turkey and heads of municipalities visited Yevlakh region of Azerbaijan to attend the opening of "Park of friendship", symbol of Turkish-Azeri relations.
11 May 2006 [13:18]
Heavy rains in the north-western regions of Azerbaijan in the past three days caused floods in the Mazim, Balaken, Alazan and Tala rivers.
11 May 2006 [13:01]
Head of the OSCE mission on supervision over elections Girt Arens in connection with repeated elections to Milli Majlis of Azerbaijan Republic has visited Ganja.
11 May 2006 [10:52]
Education Ministry will conduct exam for Baku State University students to accredit the university.
11 May 2006 [10:28]
President Ilham Aliyev issued a decree on granting participants of the 1941-1945 war, widows of fighters died in battles or afterwards, persons conferred orders and medals for selfless labor in home front.
11 May 2006 [09:56]
Azerbaijan's 1.506.113 sq. meters area was cleared from mine and unexploded ordnances (UXO), 941 mines ad UXO were disarmed last month.
11 May 2006 [08:42]
State Committee for Family, Women and Child Problems has applied to President Ilham Aliyev to pardon a group of sentenced children on the Day of 1 June - International Children's Day, the Committee chairman Hijran Huseynova has told journalists.
10 May 2006 [21:58]
Lopez turned her back on Sofia, and several other cities.
10 May 2006 [20:26]
On May 12 in the Swiss town Nion (UEFA headquarters) the football delegations of Armenia and Azerbaijan will meet.
10 May 2006 [19:47]
Republic of Ireland under-21 manager Don Givens has enlisted the help of the English Football Association in a bid to avoid embarrassment against Azerbaijan.
10 May 2006 [18:03]
Azerbaijan's Youth and Sports Minister Azad Rahimov will pay a two-day official visit to Sofia, at the invitation of Bulgaria's State Agency for Youth and Sports on May 13.
10 May 2006 [16:42]
The 95th session of the International Labor Organization will convene June 6-10 June in Geneva.
10 May 2006 [15:41]
Solemn closing ceremony of the XXV Peoples Days festival was held in Egypt's Ayn Shams University.
10 May 2006 [14:34]
The joint meeting of the World Jews Congress and Eurasian Jewish Congress, which was to be held in Baku from May 15 to 17, was postponed.
10 May 2006 [14:33]
A ceremony was held at the Honorary Alley in commemoration of the then Azerbaijani President Heydar Aliyev's 83rd birthday today.
10 May 2006 [08:35]
Eight Azerbaijani women were convicted for prostitution by a New Delhi Metropolitan Magistrate here two years after their arrest in a raid at a city hotel.
10 May 2006 [08:34]
"All airplanes of AZAL are fit for use and they have no problems. That is why no plane purchase is expected within the next time," Jahangir Asgarov, Chief Director of Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) State Concern, told to the media.
10 May 2006 [08:30]
"It is difficult to prevent the bringing of propaganda books into Azerbaijan. Even we can succeed, they will be found on internet," Allahshukur Pashazade, Chief of Caucasian Muslims Office, told.
10 May 2006 [08:26]
Namig Aliyev, Ambassador of Azerbaijan in Georgia, submitted his credentials to Mikhail Saakashvili, Georgian President.
10 May 2006 [08:21]
Azerbaijani and Georgian Delimitation and Demarcation Commission representatives will meet next week.
10 May 2006 [08:19]
Ministry on Emergencies takes its measures to prevent water rising in River Kur.
09 May 2006 [18:06]
On May 9, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev attended the ceremony to celebrate the 61st anniversary of the victory over fascism in the World War II.
09 May 2006 [10:49]
"World Azerbaijanis Congress (WAC) will open TV channel which will be broadcasted all over the world," WAC Deputy Chairman Khazar Emin stated.
09 May 2006 [10:00]
Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources has not found dead birds during the next monitoring held to prevent spread of Bird flu.
09 May 2006 [09:29]
For identifying the reason of crash the plane An-140-100 un route in Baku- Aktau line crashed in Nardaran in December last year, equipments and parts of the plane has been sent to Moscow city Scientific-Research Institute#13.
08 May 2006 [18:37]
Aleksandr Umnyashkin, former head of international relations department of Azerbaijan's Health Ministry has been released from prison.
08 May 2006 [16:19]
Republic of Ireland under-21 manager Don Givens has been forced to make another two changes to his squad for the crucial Uefa eliminator against Azerbaijan, with Cork City's Denis Behan and Paul Keegan of Drogheda United summoned into the 18-man panel.
08 May 2006 [12:04]
Georgia-Azerbaijan Friendship House was established a year ago.
08 May 2006 [08:35]
08 May 2006 [08:31]
"2nd students' day" took place in Cairo State University, one of the ancient International Universities of Egypt with participation of students from Tunis, Qatar, Sudan, Somalia, Palestine, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt , Kazakhstan, Algeria, Syria, Lebanon, and Azerbaijan.
07 May 2006 [14:43]
U-21 Azerbaijan and Ireland squads will clash in qualifers to book the place in the European championship qualification group stage.
07 May 2006 [14:10]
Azerbaijani athlete Nizami Pashayev hauled 402 kilos in total to take the overall gold in the men's 94kg category at the European Weightlifting Championships in Poland.
07 May 2006 [13:38]
World Thalassemia Day, May 8 to be marked tomorrow in Azerbaijan.
07 May 2006 [12:55]
Women parliamentarians from Azerbaijan, Turkey and Georgia and public representatives gathered for a rally in the Ceyhan seaport.
06 May 2006 [16:08]
Commissar on Council of Europe Human Rights Thomas Hammerberg and Russian Federation commissar for Human Rights Vladimir Lukin today have met with Justice Minister at first, then with chairman of Court Law Council chairman Fikrat Mammadov.
06 May 2006 [16:00]
IV election conference of Azerbaijani Chess Federation took place in assembly hall of National Olympic Committee (NOC).
06 May 2006 [14:05]
Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev appealed to participants of international peaceful action "Heydar Aliyev Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline guarantees peace, security and development in the region".
06 May 2006 [11:57]
Scotland's disappointing World Cup qualifying campaign ended in a 3-2 defeat to Azerbaijan which consigned them to 10th place in the 12-nation tournament in Rome.
06 May 2006 [10:23]
Today Emergency Situation Minister Colonel-General Kamaladdin Heydarov met with a group of war veterans on occasion of 61st anniversary of the Victory.
06 May 2006 [10:15]
"Construction of 11 sport complexes will be launched in different regions of Azerbaijan in nearest future", Minister of Youth and Sport Azad Rahimov has said.
06 May 2006 [09:18]
"Not any poultry farms activating in Azerbaijan has been forbidden with regard to bird flu. Simply, they were recommended to be more careful, feel responsibility to their work," first Deputy Prime Minister Abbas Abbasov has told journalists.
06 May 2006 [08:32]
Education Ministry will not allow privately-owned universities to admit students in fields of Law, International Law and Medical Biology from this year.
06 May 2006 [08:20]
Education Ministry made a decision to invalidate Independent Azerbaijan University.
06 May 2006 [08:06]
President of Islamic Republic of Iran, Mahmud Ahmadinejad met with Caucasus Muslims Board (CMB) Chief Allahshukur Pashazadeh yesterday.
05 May 2006 [16:58]
The National judo team of Azerbaijan will attend the international tournament in Kazakhstan capital, Almaty, May 6-7.
05 May 2006 [09:28]
One of the world reputable grand masters, our compatriot Teymur Rajabov was appointed UNICEF's goodwill Ambassador to Azerbaijan.
05 May 2006 [09:12]
Azerbaijan's application to UN human Rights Council for membership was not met. The reason was reported to be low-protection of human rights in Azerbaijan.
05 May 2006 [08:40]
"I plan to visit Azerbaijan this weekend to have a number of meetings in Baku. I attach the greatest importance to meeting with Ombudsman," CE Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg stated.
05 May 2006 [08:35]
Yesterday trial on the claim raised by jailers against Azerbaijani Army Officer Ramil Safarov accused of murder of Armenian officer Gurgen Margaryan will took place in Pesht Court, Hungary.
05 May 2006 [08:10]
Azerbaijani Anti-Torture Committee Chief Elchin Behbudov plans to appeal President Ilham Aliyev to commute imprisonment of ex-ministers, Health Minister Ali Insanov and Economic Development Minister Farhad Aliyev, to house arrest.
04 May 2006 [15:58]
Monument of Heydar Aliyev will be set up in Bishkek, State Committee on Work with Azerbaijanis living abroad informs.
04 May 2006 [14:43]
Ombudsman of the Azerbaijan Republic Elmira Suleymanova met with the representative of the Norwegian House of Human Rights (NHHR) Ms. Ane Tooswik Bonde.
04 May 2006 [14:09]
Azeri national team led by senior coach Aladdin Aliyev will attend the European Powerlifting Championship, which to bring together 180 sportsmen of 15 countries of world in Saint-Avold (France), May 4-9.
04 May 2006 [08:37]
Reporters Without Borders issued its report on occasion of 10-May-World Press Freedom Day.
04 May 2006 [08:33]
Ministry of Education prepared special program for development of three education enterprises for 2006-2010.
04 May 2006 [08:25]
Azerbaijani State Border Service (SBS) officials detained 44 wanted people.
04 May 2006 [08:12]
People's Artist of Russia Alla Pugachova will arrive in Azerbaijan to hold concert at the Republican Palace named after Heydar Aliyev May 31.
04 May 2006 [08:07]
International action participants with organization of Azerbaijani Women National Confederation and Yeni Azerbaijan Party (YAP) under the slogan "Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline is guarantee of peace, security, stability and development in the region", completed meetings in Tbilisi and left for Turkey.
04 May 2006 [08:02]
"Though press is free in several fields in Azerbaijan here are series of restrictions that affect activity of press negatively," the US Embassy to Azerbaijan Public Affairs Officer Jonathan Henick stated at the press conference dedicated to World Press Freedom Day.
04 May 2006 [07:57]
If Cabinet of Ministers approve of Education Minister's proposal, gold and silver medalists of world Olympiad can be admitted to higher education institutions without taking entrance exams.
04 May 2006 [07:42]
Sahib Safarov, father of Ramil Safarov who is accused of murder of Armenian officer Gurgen Markaryan in Hungary, appealed to public requesting for removal of his son's photos from public places and transportation.
Azerbaijan's energy strategy boosts regional influence and export prospects
Tripartite meeting of the ministers of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan to be held
Founder of Premier LTD speaks about Gidon Kremer's and his orchestra's concert in Baku
COP29 offers opportunity for collaboration with Central Asian & Arab nations, Azerbaijani FM says
Azerbaijan's Bayramov addresses 3rd Arab Cooperation & Economic Forum
"Great Game" in Central Asia and Azerbaijan's strategic role in exchange of critical raw materials
France's tough-talking minister confuses policy on issues of Armenia and New Caledonia