Society
22 May 2007 [07:29]
Azerbaijan's chances of appearing at the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest will become better known in mid-June, when broadcaster AzTV finds out if it has been admitted into the European Broadcasting Union or not.
21 May 2007 [17:43]
New office is being built for the Central Election Commission (CEC), the chief of CEC Mazahir Panahov said.
21 May 2007 [17:28]
The 26th Turkish Day parade has been held in New York City.
21 May 2007 [17:21]
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov continues his official visit in Azerbaijan.
21 May 2007 [16:38]
A fire broke out Monday at a Russian factory that makes equipment for atomic power plants, but there was no risk of radioactive contamination because the plant does not work with nuclear materials, an emergency official said.
21 May 2007 [16:32]
Ogtay Gerekmezli, lawyer for Kamil Sederddinov, former chief of the Head Investigation Department of Interior Ministry Appeal filed an appeal against the decision of preliminary court proceeding of Appeals Court.
21 May 2007 [16:31]
Who would you like to interview in Azerbaijan? The choice of most of journalists of the country stayed on Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev. 35 of 100 journalists said they would like to interview Azerbaijani President.
21 May 2007 [16:27]
Hot, rainless weather is forecasted in Azerbaijan next days.
21 May 2007 [16:24]
Resident of the village of Chagar-gishlag of Gusar region 27-year old Ildirim Pirveliyev committed suicide.
21 May 2007 [14:03]
May 28 - Republic Day of Azerbaijan will be celebrated at Israeli Knesset building on May 24, vice-president of Israeli-Azerbaijan International Association (IAIA) Alex Shapiro Suliman told.
21 May 2007 [13:09]
Next monitoring of bird flu started in Azerbaijan from today, chief of State Veterinary Service Yolchu Khanveli told.
21 May 2007 [12:54]
Separate exams for the technical schools are not to be held this year, Maleyka Abbaszade, Chairman of State Students Admission Committee told.
21 May 2007 [08:06]
Murder was committed in Binagadi district on Friday night.
21 May 2007 [08:04]
Baku City Main Police Office's public security department conducted joint raids with Nasimi District police Office's 22nd department near 28 May metro station.
21 May 2007 [08:02]
Article about Azerbaijan has been published in Israel's "24 hours" newspaper.
21 May 2007 [07:53]
Baku resident, driver of Mercedes car Parviz Aliyev robbed his passenger Gulnara Alibayova.
19 May 2007 [10:37]
According to the UN Environment Program (UNEP), industrial pollution, toxic and waste radioactive substances, uncontrolled fishing of sturgeons, death of the number of the marine fauna species exert negative influence on the Caspian Sea.
19 May 2007 [10:25]
Amnesty Act approved by Azerbaijani parliament on May 8 discharged about 500 prisoners.
19 May 2007 [10:24]
2403 family in Ganja are getting targeted social assistance now.
19 May 2007 [10:23]
US Educational Testing Service (ETS) finished seminars for representatives of Azerbaijan's State Student Admission Commission (SSAC) in the framework of cooperation project of USAID.
19 May 2007 [10:19]
"We are working to make the world aware of the facts of destruction Azerbaijan’s historical monuments by Armenians. Booklets, collections, publications are printed to be exhibited in different actions at international level," Culture and Tourism Minister Abulfaz Garayev told the journalists.
19 May 2007 [09:59]
An armed guard employed by Azerbaijan's Kapitalbank made off with about $140,000 in bank funds he was supposed to be transporting, Baku television reported Friday.
19 May 2007 [09:58]
Head of Caucasian Muslims Office Sheikhulislam Hajji Allahshukur Pashazadeh is leaving for Saudi Arabia on Saturday.
19 May 2007 [09:54]
Turkey-educated Alumni Association organized a roundtable "Peace in homeland, peace in the world" in commemoration of May 19-Mustafa Kamal Ataturk’s birthday in Azerbaijan Ataturk Center.
19 May 2007 [09:20]
Copenhagen, Denmark, earned the right to host the 2009 World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) World Taekwondo Championships at the WTF General Assembly on Thursday.
19 May 2007 [09:00]
OpenNet Initiative (ONI), which is made up of groups at Cambridge University, Harvard Law School, Oxford University and the University of Toronto found that 25 of the 41 governments studied block or filter internet content.
19 May 2007 [08:39]
A two-day ecological workshop on the problem of improving quality of sea-water and the Caspian Sea coast conditions opened in Ashgabat.
19 May 2007 [08:37]
Having staged "The Match of the Legends" in May 2006 between Karpov and Spassky, the Corsican Chess League on Friday organized "Le Match des Espoirs" between the two top juniors of the world – 20-year-old GM Teimur Radjabov of Azerbaijan and 16-year-old GM Magnus Carlsen of Norway. After tying two rapid and two blitz tie-break games Radjabov won the match in the Armageddon playoff.
18 May 2007 [23:54]
Azerbaijani Defense Minister, Colonel General Safar Abiyev received the delegation led by Brigadier General Robert D. Ireton, the chief of staff of the Oklahoma Air National Guard.
18 May 2007 [23:19]
"A parliamentarian is deprived of authorities committing a crime and court passes decisionabout it," commenting on Huseyn Abdullayev's deputy mandate parliament's commission on for statehood and legal policy told.
18 May 2007 [22:50]
Though the weather was unstable, average monthly temperature was below the norm, amount of monthly rainfall was above the norm in the republic and neighboring countries in April, in May it was different.
18 May 2007 [14:58]
The sitting of the 60th session of World Health Assembly, the supreme body of World Health Organization, was held on May 17 in Geneva.
18 May 2007 [12:59]
There is not any threat on floods in Azerbaijan today, Azerbaijani Deputy Minister of Emergencies Orujali Hajiyev told.
18 May 2007 [08:33]
Union of Editors will hold picket on May 22 and rally on June 12.
18 May 2007 [07:51]
Polish ambassador to Azerbaijan Krzysztof Krajewski visited Samukh region of Azerbaijan.
17 May 2007 [22:18]
"It is competence of governments to give decisions on starting negotiations on broadcasting Russian TV channels in Azerbaijan. As far as I know, there is no such decision yet," Chairman of Azerbaijan National Television and Radio Council Nushiravan Maharramli told.
17 May 2007 [16:35]
Russian Azerbaijanis Congress did not participate in organizing the job fair in the office of AZERROS in Moscow.
17 May 2007 [15:26]
ICT sector revenues will likely reach petrodollars in 10 to 15 years, Azerbaijan's Communications and Information Minister, Ali Abbasov, told a board meeting marking 17 May World Information Society Day.
17 May 2007 [14:38]
We are not satisfied with unequal distribution of the limit of usage of the Samur River between Azerbaijan and Dagestan, Dagestan's Deputy Prime Minister Gitinomagamed Hajimagamedov told journalists.
17 May 2007 [14:02]
International conference "Democracy in societies in transition" is to be held in Gulustan Place in Baku May 23.
17 May 2007 [13:23]
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev today participated in the opening of 28.9-km road in Zabrat-Balakhani-Mehdiabad-Khirdalan-Binegedi circle in the framework of the project of reconstruction of the roads around Baku.
17 May 2007 [10:42]
Ex-health minister Ali Insanov's complaint to court on protesting to the decision made by Presidium of National Academy of Sciences which discharged him from the full membership will be considered.
17 May 2007 [10:37]
"The verdict about editor-in-chief of and editor of Mukhalifet (Opposition) newspaper Rovshen Kebirli and Yashar Agazade is very severe. The Press Council never supports arresting media representatives for their articles," commenting on the arrest of editor-in-chief of and editor of the newspaper, chief of the Press Council Aflatun Amashov told.
17 May 2007 [10:26]
Azerbaijani Embassy in Russia will carry out investigation on the so-called "Nagorno Karabakh Republic" representation in Moscow on Murovdag and will express its dissatisfaction to related bodies of Russia.
17 May 2007 [10:11]
President Ilham Aliyev issued an executive order on approving professional holiday of employees of Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry.
17 May 2007 [10:10]
Oklahoma Air National Guard members arrived in Baku on May 14 to participate in Operation Cherokee Angel, a medical humanitarian mission aimed at improving the health and welfare of the local population while training and working alongside Azeri medical personnel.
17 May 2007 [09:49]
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded a mutli-million dollar grant in cooperation with leading oil companies and the International Medical Corps to assist the Ministry of Health of Azerbaijan in introducing a modern, evidence-based approach to Emergency Medicine, US Embassy told.
17 May 2007 [09:24]
Azerbaijan women's volleyball team has passed to final round in international Spring Cup tournament, Volleyball Federation press secretary Zohrab Gozelbeyli told.
17 May 2007 [08:59]
Vasif Adighozalov's "Natavan" opera performance at Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater will open the conference of Union of Azerbaijani Composers, Ramiz Zohrabov, the secretary of Azerbaijan Composers Union told.
16 May 2007 [21:48]
The next trial on suit of parliamentarian, academician Jalal Aliyev against Mukhalifet (Opposition) newspaper was held at Yasamal district court.
16 May 2007 [21:36]
"I have no tie with Wrestling Federation," former head coach of Azerbaijani freestyle wrestling team Aslan Agayev told.
16 May 2007 [15:58]
The results of the fire occurred in one of 125-MW transformers installed in 220/110/10-kV Masalli substation have been removed.
16 May 2007 [15:56]
Appeal against the decision of Budapest Appeals Court upholding the life sentence of Budapest Court about Azerbaijani officer Ramil Safarov is ready.
16 May 2007 [15:53]
Azerbaijani chess player Teymour Radjabov left for France after winning silver medal in Ural club in Russian inter-club championship.
16 May 2007 [15:52]
Azerbaijan Writers' Union (AWU) held meeting on May 15.
16 May 2007 [12:56]
Today preliminary court proceeding on criminal case on ex-economic development minister Farhad Aliyev and 17 more defendants accused of corruption continued at Court of Grave Crimes.
16 May 2007 [08:50]
Armed with $230 billion in oil revenues, policymakers hope better education will reverse Azerbaijan's corrupt history.
16 May 2007 [08:43]
Appeal against court decision on Independent Azerbaijan University's (IAU) students will be considered on Wednesday.
16 May 2007 [07:57]
A group of journalists attempted to hold a picket in Sabir Park, Baku.
16 May 2007 [07:48]
Polish ambassador to Azerbaijan Krzysztof Krajewski will visit Samukh region of Azerbaijan.
15 May 2007 [23:52]
Azerbaijan's Court of Appeal held a preparatory legal proceeding with regard to the appeal against the verdict on Haji Mammadov, gang leader, former official of Crime Investigation Department of Interior Ministry and other members of the gang, who face charges of brutal manslaughters, kidnapping and other serious crimes.
15 May 2007 [23:04]
The level of Araz river rose. Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic told that the rise of the river's level overflew some territories of Sadrak region. Emergencies, Ecology and National Resources Ministries' teams have arrived in the site.
15 May 2007 [22:59]
Azerbaijani western regions were overflowed with the heavy rain. The flood in the Agstafachay River damaged old railway bridge and automobile bridge.
15 May 2007 [22:23]
Russian Ambassador to Azerbaijan, Vasili Istratov, gave a press conference, touching on broadcast of Russian channels in Azerbaijan, Estonia-Russian relations, Sergey Lavrov's forthcoming visit to Azerbaijan, stationing of missile defense system in Europe and other related issues.
15 May 2007 [13:09]
Presentation of Association of Women Lawyers was held in Baku on Monday. The association has been established with the support of USAID and ABA CELLI.
15 May 2007 [12:43]
Meeting at its Annual General Assembly on 14 May 2007 in Istanbul, Turkey, the International Press Institute (IPI) membership adopted a resolution on the extreme deterioration of press freedom in Azerbaijan.
15 May 2007 [12:40]
Linesman Tofig Bahramov became famous after the scene when the ball hit the cross bar in 1966 world championship final, stated legendary Franz Beckenbauer.
15 May 2007 [12:31]
At the half-way stage of this six-players double round robin tournament, twice world junior champion Shakhriyar Mammadyarov of Azerbaijan remained in sole lead with 3.5 points after signing peace pact with Michael Adams of England who remained in sole second spot on three points after a desired result.
15 May 2007 [09:57]
Reports on newly-found mass graves in Guba are closely followed in Ukraine, Ukrainian ambassador to Azerbaijan Stepan Volkovetski told journalists.
15 May 2007 [09:45]
Azerbaijan-Russia-Turkey business-forum is scheduled to be held in September on mutual consent, Russian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Vasili Istratov said.
15 May 2007 [09:21]
President of Azersun Holding Group of Companies Abdolbari Goozal withdrew hos suit which he brought against "Musavat" newspaper's chief editor Rauf Arifoghlu.
15 May 2007 [09:16]
Azerbaijan's Culture and Tourism Ministry has set up a working group in accordance with a presidential decree for improvement of library capacity in the country.
15 May 2007 [09:14]
The Assembly of European Forum of Azerbaijani students started in the capital of Belgium Brussels.
15 May 2007 [09:02]
Chingiz Ganizadeh, rights defender, member of Public Committee to Control Penitentiary Service at Justice Ministry monitored Gobustan jail.
15 May 2007 [08:53]
Representatives of International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) met with Samir Mamadov, Azerbaijan soldier captured by Armenians.
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