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11 June 2009 [12:50]
Prisoners are moving from Bayil remand prison to a new jail in Baku starting from early this week, Azerbaijani Deputy Justice Minister and Penal Service Head Nazim Alakbarov said.
11 June 2009 [11:37]
Georgia will be hosting Days of Culture of Azerbaijan, reports Day.Az with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
11 June 2009 [08:41]
Radical-extremist religious challenges in Azerbaijan appeared under the influence of groups of North Caucasus, Iran and Afghanistan.
11 June 2009 [08:37]
Azerbaijan State Customs Committee handed over 663 Christian books, two icons and a rood confiscated by the Khachmaz Customs Office to the Russian Orthodox Church Baku and Caspian Eparchy.
10 June 2009 [17:27]
The French and Azerbaijani archeologists started to study the historical monuments in an ancient settlement found in the Tovuz region of Azerbaijan, according to Interfax-Azerbaijan.
10 June 2009 [16:50]
According to Day.Az, in an interview to Lenkoran television, chairman of the Parliamentary Commission on Social Policy Hadi Racabli shared dissatisfaction of the public about the immense expenses while weddings and funerals.
10 June 2009 [15:59]
The Azerbaijani State Boundary Service released information about the arrest of ex-president of Barmek Huseyn Arabul.
10 June 2009 [14:38]
Court of Grave Crimes continued preliminary hearing on the case of Lebanese and Azerbaijani citizens, who are accused of having links to Al-Qaeda, Hezbollah and the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps of Iran and attempting to commit terror attacks in Azerbaijan, APA reports.
10 June 2009 [11:38]
Rahman Hasanov, father of Rafig Hasanov, the Azerbaijani soldier captured by the Armenian armed forces last October, sent a letter to his son, Hasanov told APA.
10 June 2009 [10:03]
The European Youth Centre has arranged a two-day workshop titled “Support for Media Outlets in the South Caucasus”.
09 June 2009 [16:49]
The presentation of the "State program on chess development in Azerbaijan for 2009-2014", signed by president of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev on May 5, was held at the administrative building of the Ministry of Youth and Sports.
09 June 2009 [15:51]
The Heydar Aliyev Foundation published a book by worldwide known philosopher Nasraddin Tusi Ahlagi Nasir in Latin.
09 June 2009 [15:49]
Azerbaijani police detained women smuggling psychotropic substances from Russia to Azerbaijan.
09 June 2009 [15:40]
09 June 2009 [13:53]
Azerbaijani parliament's first vice speaker says mortgage lending for military men will be launched in soon.
09 June 2009 [13:47]
Azerbaijan will partake in the International exhibition "Summer-time for poppets" to be held in Saint-Petersburg on June 11-14, according to the press service for the Azerbaijan Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
09 June 2009 [13:27]
The situation in the armed forces of Azerbaijan is normal and an isolate case within it should not be exaggerated, said speaker of Milli Medjlis Oqtay Asadov, according to Interfax-Azerbaijan.
09 June 2009 [12:59]
It is necessary to create a body, regulating Internet-media in Azerbaijan, said deputy Aynur Guliyeva.
09 June 2009 [12:26]
Chairman of the Azerbaijani State Committee for Religious Associations says Azerbaijan provides freedom of religion to all.
09 June 2009 [11:12]
Famous Brazilian conductor Silvio Barbato, who took part in the opening of the International Mugham Festival in Baku on March 19 of this year, was on board of the Airbus A330 belonging to Air France, which crashed on June 1, said director of the Azerbaijan State Philharmonic Murad Adigezalzade.
09 June 2009 [10:42]
Azerbaijan is planning to adopt a new law "On Sport" and the draft new law will cover all spheres of sport life, said chairman of MM commission on social policy Hadi Rajabli, according to Lenkoran Television.
08 June 2009 [15:48]
The Court of Grave rimes has launched a hearing on the criminal case of schoolboy Orkhan Musazade, charged with misinforming about the act of terrorism.
08 June 2009 [15:17]
Several officials of Ganja City were summoned for questioning due to grave crime committed in 2003-2004, law-enforcement officials told APA.
08 June 2009 [14:02]
08 June 2009 [13:25]
The 53rd Venice international exhibition of modern art opened in the Italian city of Venice, reports Day.Az with reference to the press service for the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
08 June 2009 [12:31]
The Heydar Aliyev Foundation has realized next humanitarian action in the health sphere.
08 June 2009 [12:28]
08 June 2009 [11:25]
Some 40 days have passed after the armed attack happened at the Azerbaijani State Oil Academy on April 30.
08 June 2009 [10:33]
Azerbaijan will be hosting Days of Qatar culture on June 8-12, according to the press service for the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
08 June 2009 [10:19]
For the first time in Azerbaijan Navigator.az presented the online timetable of air flights with fast renewed information in the real time regime.
08 June 2009 [10:09]
A monitoring on the beaches, located in Baku and Absheron peninsula has been suspended due to weather conditions, said Ziyaddin Kazimov, chief of sanitary-hygienic department of the Republican center of hygiene and epidemiology at Azerbaijan's Ministry of Health.
06 June 2009 [12:40]
Ammunition depot was revealed in the territory of Tovuz region (420 kilometers from Baku) situated in the west of Azerbaijan.
06 June 2009 [10:09]
Flood occurred on mountain rivers resulting from strong railfalls in western region of Azerbaijan yesterday.
06 June 2009 [09:38]
The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan presented to the Cabinet of Ministers a proposal to increase the penalty to be applied for damage to green areas in the country.
05 June 2009 [14:03]
New mosque must be built far from city center to provide for normal functioning of Ilahiyyat mosque near the Baku State University (BSU), BSU rector Abel Maharramov said at a press conference.
05 June 2009 [14:01]
Level of school-leavers' knowledge is too low in Azerbaijan compared to previous years, Chairman of the State Students Admission Commission (SSAC) Maleyka Abbaszade said on June 5.
05 June 2009 [13:44]
The Baku police has today received a bomb alert at the Gara Garayev subway station, according to ANS-Press.
05 June 2009 [13:26]
Head of press-service of one of Baku's universities was detained while selling forged diploma in Azerbaijan.
05 June 2009 [13:21]
05 June 2009 [12:43]
Yesterday at 15:30 the Baku police received a call about the bomb at the Oasis entertainment center in Binagadi district, according to press service for the Interior Ministry.
05 June 2009 [10:41]
The congress of Nagorno Karabakh’s Azerbaijani Community has started in Baku, APA reports.
05 June 2009 [10:37]
Officials of the state veterinary service under Azerbaijan's Agriculture Ministry are holding a monitoring in all pig farms, said spokesman of the state veterinary service under Azerbaijan's Ministry of Agriculture Yolchu Khanveli.
05 June 2009 [10:32]
An earthquake hit the Caspian Sea 91 kilometers east of Baku at 19:20 on June 4, said sources in the Center of seismological service of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Science.
05 June 2009 [09:31]
The Ministry of Justice of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan appealed to the Press Council to clarify how many newspapers there are with the word "Nakhchivan" in title.
05 June 2009 [09:08]
Appeals will be made to courts in Azerbaijan to liquidate the state registration of the inactive media outlets.
04 June 2009 [17:23]
Ammunition was found in Hajigabul region of Azerbaijan yesterday, according to the press service for the Interior Ministry of Azerbaijan.
04 June 2009 [17:11]
Azerbaijan will host the international conference on the development of civil society.
04 June 2009 [15:59]
There is no need to keep current restrictions for appointment of a prosecutor general, head of Azerbaijani parliament's committee said.
04 June 2009 [15:06]
Azerbaijani science has sufficient potential to add to the list of top twenty countries soon, said president of the National Academy of Science of Azerbaijan Mahmud Kerimov, according to Interfax-Azerbaijan.
04 June 2009 [14:55]
The Law on Education will be discussed in a third reading at a regular session of Milli Medjlis in June, said chairman of the parliamentary committee on issues of science and education Shamseddin Hajiyev, according to the press service for the Yeni Azerbaijan party.
04 June 2009 [14:27]
Barmek company president Huseyn Arabul was condemned to conditional sentence for corruptional crimes in Azerbaijan.
04 June 2009 [14:05]
Date for meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Turkic Speaking Countries to be held in Baku has been set.
04 June 2009 [11:49]
2,348,225 square meters of Azerbaijani lands were cleared of mines and unexploded shells in May of 2009.
04 June 2009 [11:25]
Heads of the parliament administrations of the member states of the Turkic Speaking Countries' Parliamentary Assembly visited Baku today.
04 June 2009 [11:18]
There are serious problems in professionalism of Internet-media in Azerbaijan.
04 June 2009 [10:07]
Mosques are not destructed in Azerbaijan, but definite figures' illegal activities are prevented, Head of the Presidential Administration Public-Political Department Ali Hasanov told journalists on June 4.
04 June 2009 [09:40]
04 June 2009 [09:33]
The National Television and Radio Council of Azerbaijan considers it necessary to regulate the Internet in order to counter cyber crime, said head of the Council Nushirevan Magerramli, according to Novosti-Azerbaijan.
04 June 2009 [09:13]
The Israeli citizen, who went missing in the Yasamal district of Baku, was found dead, said sources in the 26th police department of Yasamal.
04 June 2009 [09:08]
03 June 2009 [16:10]
Armenian and Azerbaijani men, who were designing false documents in an effort to sell in Azerbaijan, have been detained in Georgia.
03 June 2009 [15:39]
The committee on social policy of Milli Medjlis is holding a monitoring of the Family Code, said deputy chairman of the committee on social policy Musa Guliyev, according to the press service for the Yeni Azerbaijan party.
03 June 2009 [15:07]
A large arms cache was found by law enforcement officers in the Aghdash region yesterday, according to the press service for the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan.
03 June 2009 [14:34]
03 June 2009 [14:26]
The Board of American Azerbaijanis presented the first US stamp with Shusha city featured on it.
03 June 2009 [13:07]
Candidate of historical science Fizuli Ismaylov published a book "Historical roots of a conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia and modern period", according to the press service for the National Academy of Science of Azerbaijan.
03 June 2009 [12:24]
In the Caspian Sea, water levels could drop by roughly six meters by the end of the 21st century because of increased evaporation and it will affect on the fish resources and coastal infrastructure of the sea, the World Bank said in its report on “Adapting to Climate Change in Europe and Central Asia”, APA reports.
03 June 2009 [10:20]
"During interrogation two soldiers of the Armenian armed forces Ogan Harutyunyan and Gevorg Tomosyan expressed intention to be transferred to a third country", said representative of the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan Teymur Abdullayev.
02 June 2009 [16:36]
The National Council on Television and Radio (NSTR) of Azerbaijan has prepared recommendations related to broadcasting of information on extreme situations on televisions, which is not binding, but televisions will have to carry them out.
02 June 2009 [16:32]
The Azerbaijani State Committee on Standardization, Metrology and patent does not exclude the probability import of food stuff from Armenia to the country.
02 June 2009 [15:19]
All religious communities will be re-registered in Azerbaijan, department chief of the State Committee for Religious Organizations Gunduz Ismayilov told APA.
02 June 2009 [13:59]
The Azerbaijani parliamentarians offer to discuss the Bill on Defamation under definite conditions.
02 June 2009 [13:33]
Azerbaijani Justice Ministry's Penal Service is studying proposals by the human rights activists to turn Bayil remand prison into museum.
02 June 2009 [13:00]
Azerbaijan's embassy in France is studying possibility of presence of Azerbaijani citizens on board of the Air France aircraft that was lost over Atlantic Ocean yesterday, embassy official told Trend News over telephone from Paris on June 2.
02 June 2009 [11:46]
All universities and schools will be thoroughly protected in a new academic year, Education Minister Misir Mardanov told journalists on June 2.
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