Society
09 January 2007 [00:02]
A newspaper article that landed two journalists in jail and provoked Muslim protests underscores rifts over crucial issues - religion, freedom of speech and foreign influence - troubling Azerbaijan.
08 January 2007 [18:03]
"Rise in prices of energy deliveries will influence the activity of the press. The publication of the newspapers and the price for imported rolls of paper may rise. Our colleagues also consider that newspaper prices should raise," said chairman of the Press Council Aflatun Amashov.
08 January 2007 [17:55]
Acting director and engineer general of Synthesis Caoutchouc Plant Ikhtiyar Balakishiyev, department chief Ikhtiyar Shahverdiyev and Metleb Shamuradov were arrested because of the explosion happened in Synthesis Caoutchouc Plant of "Azerkimya" State Company located in Sumgayit on December 29, Republic Prosecutor's Office and Emergencies Ministry released joint information about the case.
08 January 2007 [17:52]
Mass death of poultries is observed in the village Boyuk Bahmanli of Fuzuli region.
08 January 2007 [17:19]
The captain, co-captain and five other crew members of a giant Antonov-124 "Ruslan" cargo plane were detained at a Norwegian airport Monday on suspicion of intending to fly while drunk, police said.
08 January 2007 [15:55]
Advocates Collegium of Azerbaijan chief Azer Tagiyev will pay an official visit to Hungary on January 15.
08 January 2007 [15:27]
The weather is forecasted to be stable in 2-3 days, Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry National Hydrometeorology Department Forecasting bureau chief Umayra Tagiyeva told.
08 January 2007 [15:11]
The period of the tender for ANS television and ANS CM radio frequency has been expired, National Television and radio Council chairman Nushirevan Meherremli stated.
08 January 2007 [01:22]
At a quaterfinal match of the First ACP World Rapid Chess Cup Azeri grandmaster defeated Russia's Alexander Morozevich.
07 January 2007 [22:35]
As Day.Az informs, citizens, disturbed by information about a petrol prices rising, try to fill full tanks.
07 January 2007 [21:21]
One more victim of the Synthesis Caoutchouc Plant blast, Gafur Mikay?l Aliyev, 60, died in the intensive care department on Sunday.
07 January 2007 [21:06]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has extended Christmas congratulations to the Orthodox Christians of Azerbaijan.
07 January 2007 [01:52]
Azerbaijan's Teymur Rajabov started his performance at the First ACP World Rapid Chess Cup by a win over Russia's Eugeny Bareev.
06 January 2007 [13:53]
More than 5 thousand people were deported from Russia to Azerbaijan in 2006, informs Russia Federal Migration Office.
05 January 2007 [00:59]
Grandmaster Teymur Rajabov opens Azerbaijan's overseas participation in the New Year as part of the 16-player field in the First ACP World rapid chess cup beginning in Odessa, Ukraine, on Friday.
05 January 2007 [00:29]
New audience for international news and retail sites on the horizon as former Soviet state looks at dropping internet ban following Niyazov's death.
04 January 2007 [21:56]
Emaar Properties will host 68 artists from around the world at its third International Art Symposium to be held from January 7 to 27, 2007, at Emaar's Dubai Polo & Equestrian Club and Global Village in Dubai.
03 January 2007 [21:15]
Five students from the leadership class participated in Whitman's first video conference with students in Azerbaijan Dec. 7 as part of an initiative to promote technology and global awareness.
03 January 2007 [13:40]
The evidence of the wealthy oil industry can be seen everywhere in Azerbaijan's capital. Baku is definitely booming. There are gleaming marble squares, presidential palaces, new shops packed with western designer goods and even British bars that now cater for the hundreds of oil workers, including dozens from the North-East.
03 January 2007 [12:44]
A conference commemorating prominent Azerbaijan poet Nizami Ganjavi will take place January 24 in Strasbourg, France.
03 January 2007 [12:42]
The Geology Institute of the National Academy of Sciences continues to implement joint projects with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
03 January 2007 [12:21]
Police are investigating the murder of a Mountain Jew in Moscow.
02 January 2007 [16:36]
One of Azerbaijani pilgrims visiting Mecca passed away.
01 January 2007 [17:29]
Over a thousand Turks spent the first day of the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha in emergency wards on Sunday after stabbing themselves or suffering other injuries while sacrificing startled animals.
01 January 2007 [16:58]
Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran became the second Indian ever after Viswanathan Anand to join the 2700 ELO rating club in the FIDE ranking list announced on Monday.
31 December 2006 [19:45]
Day of Solidarity of Azerbaijanis living throughout the world is marked in Azerbaijan on Sunday.
30 December 2006 [17:19]
Baku Mayor's Office will organize a firework at capital's sea front at 24.00, Dec 31.
30 December 2006 [17:13]
I forum of World Azerbaijani journalists will be held in Baku in 2007, stated Nazim Ibrahimov, chief of State Committee for Azerbaijanis living abroad.
30 December 2006 [17:12]
Head of Caucasus Muslims Office, Sheikhulislam Haji Allahshukur Pashazade has congratulated Azerbaijani people on Id-al-Adha.
30 December 2006 [17:10]
Representatives of State Committee for Azerbaijanis Living Abroad and a number of Diaspora organizations visited the grave of Heydar Aliyev in the Honorary Alley on occasion of December 31 - Solidarity Day of World Azerbaijanis.
30 December 2006 [17:09]
A blast causing fire hit D-4A Butadiene Workshop of Synthesis Caoutchouc Plant of Azerkimya State Company at 19:00, Dec. 29.
30 December 2006 [12:15]
At present Azerbaijani pilgrims are in Arafat Mountain, said Caucasus Muslims Department press service chief Haji Akif Agayev.
30 December 2006 [11:58]
Fire occurred in apartment situated in Isgenderov Street, Nesimi region at night December 28 to 29.
30 December 2006 [11:56]
29 December 2006 [18:31]
Azerbaijanis suffered much from xenophobia in Russia in 2006; these ideas belong to the report of Moscow Human Rights Bureau.
29 December 2006 [18:18]
The parliament has appealed to the world Azerbaijanis on occasion of December 31 - Solidarity Day of World Azerbaijanis.
29 December 2006 [18:17]
Independent Azerbaijan University students on hunger strike held a press conference.
29 December 2006 [18:13]
President Ilham Aliyev congratulated Azerbaijani people on Id-al-Adha.
29 December 2006 [18:10]
100 more officers of Azerbaijan State Television and Radio Closed Joint-Stock Company will be sent to retirement from 1 January 2007, AzTV personnel department chief Mansur Bayramov told.
29 December 2006 [16:09]
Unstable weather will dominate in Azerbaijani territory beginning from December 30 to January 1, Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry National Hydrometeorology department told.
29 December 2006 [01:13]
Azerbaijan state Social defence Foundation has issued social insurance cards to 1 089 758 of 1 220 320 applied people.
29 December 2006 [01:13]
Azeristiliktejhizat has to date supplied heating to 1720 of the planned 1885 residential buildings.
29 December 2006 [01:09]
Famous architects of the world will be involved in the construction of Independence Museum and Independence monument, Culture and Tourism Minister Abulfas Garayev told journalists.
29 December 2006 [01:09]
On Thursday Heydar Aliyev Foundation organized New Year holiday ceremony for the honors pupils of secondary schools, for juveniles, the children from refugee and displaced families, orphans.
29 December 2006 [01:01]
29 December 2006 [01:00]
Trial on case of illegal branches of foreign universities in Baku will be finished next month.
29 December 2006 [00:59]
The chief of Caucasus Muslims Department (CMD) Sheikulislam Haji Allahshukur Pashazadeh went to Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
29 December 2006 [00:54]
It is two months that the uniforms of Interior Ministry officers are being changed.
28 December 2006 [22:18]
Azerbaijan mini football national team clashed with Turkey in a second friendly.
28 December 2006 [22:17]
President Ilham Aliyev sent a message to the renowned Russian dancer and choreographer, People's Artist of the USSR, Yury Grigorovich, to congratulate him on his 80th anniversary.
28 December 2006 [22:15]
15th International contest of cartoonists was held in Korea with Azerbaijan cartoonists in attendance.
28 December 2006 [22:08]
Central Election Commission (CEC) has finished inspections in 26 constituencies.
28 December 2006 [22:07]
Emergencies Ministry appealed to the people to prevent fires during New Year celebrations.
28 December 2006 [22:04]
"We got no information about my son Vusal Garajayev after his release," said the soldier of Azerbaijani Armed Forces Vusal Garajayev's mother Zeyneb Garajayeva.
28 December 2006 [22:02]
FIFA have issued a statement making it clear Zinedine Zidane had not been awarded the World Player of the Year award following a recount.
28 December 2006 [22:01]
The cold weather began since December 26 will alternate to warm weather on December 29.
28 December 2006 [16:52]
Azerbaijan will pull Turkish Channel D from the air from Jan 3 and Turkish STV and Russian channels RTR and ORT from July 1.
28 December 2006 [16:50]
Emergencies Ministry involves forces to clear the main streets of Baku from snow and ice.
28 December 2006 [16:48]
European Court of Human Rights has sent a survey to Azerbaijani government on complaint of Azerbaijani Lawyers Forum.
28 December 2006 [16:47]
Imprisonment of the former education department chief of Tartar Fazil Museyibov was prolonged.
28 December 2006 [12:39]
"Eldar Pine State Nature Reserve will be enlarged in future," Ecology and Natural Resources Minister Huseyn Bagirov told the journalist.
28 December 2006 [12:38]
"There are objective reasons hindering Geiygol Reserve to receive the status of National Park. The Reserve needs enlarging to at least 18,000-20,000 ha," Ecology and Natural Resources Minister Huseyn Bagirov said.
28 December 2006 [12:29]
The new building of Central Children's Hospital has been commissioned in Barda.
28 December 2006 [12:22]
Samples from 14012 fowls have been taken on bird flu since April.
28 December 2006 [12:20]
The event on the overall results of 2006 in Azerbaijan Chess Federation and the opening ceremony of the new office of the Federation was held on Wednesday.
28 December 2006 [12:19]
Azerbaijani Culture days will be held in Ukraine next year.
28 December 2006 [12:18]
"Increase of Hepatitis A by 3-5% does not mean the spread of the epidemic," Health Minister Ogtay Shiraliyev who was in visit to Ganja told the journalists.
28 December 2006 [12:16]
Meeting of Milli Majlis Social Policy Permanent Commission was held on Wednesday.
28 December 2006 [12:14]
Azerbaijani consul general to Turkey Seyyad Aran will meet with Azerbaijani students studying in Turkey on occasion of World Azerbaijanis Solidarity day and Sacrifice Holiday.
28 December 2006 [12:13]
This year, 2200 persons appealed to Milli Majlis Human Rights Commission on violation of their rights.
28 December 2006 [12:11]
Health Minister Ogtay Shiraliyev was in Ganja in the frame of "Health days" held on December 16-31.
28 December 2006 [10:39]
"The information about the inactivity of Education Commission under auspices of President is untrue. State Commission on Students' Admission (SCSA) appeals to the commission to discuss its issues and takes some measures in accordance with the commission," the chief of SCSA and the member of Education Commission Maleyka Abbaszade told.
28 December 2006 [00:03]
Azerbaijan's tallest New Year tree set up in the center of the capital, Baku, a few days ago was pushed down by powerful gushes of wind in the early hours of Wednesday, causing no injuries.
28 December 2006 [00:01]
Azerbaijan national mini football team posted a 4-2 win over Turkey in a friendly match in Baku on Tuesday.
27 December 2006 [23:57]
The cultural center "Shusha" was opened December 26 under the Embassy of Azerbaijan in China.
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