Society
27 November 2006 [16:24]
Famous Azerbaijani intelligentsia appealed to President Ilham Aliyev to the restore the broadcasting of ANS TV and ANS CM radio, ANS Group of Companies informed.
27 November 2006 [15:46]
Stable weather observing in Azerbaijan will end today.
27 November 2006 [15:39]
Court of Grave Crimes today continued the trial of the gang led by Haji Mammadov, former high ranking official of the Interior Ministry Crime Investigation Department.
27 November 2006 [14:06]
"I appreciate Pope's visit to Turkey. This is positive step in developing and improving discussions and dialogues between the two different nations," Head of the Directorate of Religious Affairs Ali Bardakoglu.
27 November 2006 [14:02]
A survey will be conducted about Azerbaijan in Great Britain.
27 November 2006 [13:59]
The first group of pilgrims will go to Hajj December 13.
27 November 2006 [13:51]
Days of St. Petersburg culture opened on Monday in Baku within the framework of the Year of Russia in Azerbaijan.
27 November 2006 [13:26]
Plane crash took place at airport Mehdabad, Tehran, early in the morning.
26 November 2006 [16:25]
In early December of this year, Mehriban Aliyeva, the spouse of Azerbaijan's President, will visit the U.S. at the invitation of Vital Voices Fund and Senator Kay Hutchinson.
26 November 2006 [16:14]
The Roundtable "Role of Internet Technology in Education" took place in the International Press Center. The roundtable was organized by Azerbaijan Internet Forum (AIF).
26 November 2006 [16:05]
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) invites bids to provide 60 blocks of flats built for internally displaced persons (IDP) from Lachin in Garadagh, Baku with the utilities.
26 November 2006 [15:44]
Two Chechen nationals were detained.
25 November 2006 [17:18]
Ministry of Emergency Situations has today organized a special tactical exercise.
25 November 2006 [14:18]
13 boys and 13 girls competed for Best Model of Azerbaijan-2006 in Heydar Aliyev Palace, Friday.
25 November 2006 [13:33]
25 November 2006 [10:59]
The delegation under the head of Haji Allahshukur Pashazadeh, the Head of Caucasian Muslims Office will visit Kuwait at the invitation of Kuwait Ministry of Religious Endowments and Islamic Affairs.
25 November 2006 [10:58]
Seven pardon acts were adopted and 41 pardon decrees were issued within passed 12 years.
25 November 2006 [10:52]
Azerbaijani national football team will leave for Kazakhstan after test match with Uzbekistan on February 7.
25 November 2006 [10:45]
4,100 legal entities, including 3,650 commercial organizations were registered during past nine month.
25 November 2006 [10:44]
The health of two Independent Azerbaijan University students holding hunger strike deteriorated.
25 November 2006 [10:43]
State Students Admission Commission will hold exams to State Service on November 25-26.
25 November 2006 [10:41]
Three cars crashed in Barda-Agdam road.
25 November 2006 [10:39]
"Thousands of Georgian Azerbaijanis live in Russia without registration now. It is inevitable that they will come to Azerbaijan, in case they are deported from the country," Nazim Ibrahimov, the chairman of the Committee on Work with Azerbaijanis Living Abroad said.
25 November 2006 [10:19]
Chief of Committee against Torture Elchin Behbudov monitored to the detention ward of Baku Main Police Board.
25 November 2006 [10:15]
Azerbaijani and Turkish Diasporas leaders 1st forum will be held in Baku in March, 2007.
24 November 2006 [23:13]
Azerbaijan's Justice Ministry has appealed to Hungarian Justice Ministry for extradition of Azerbaijani Army Officer Ramil Safarov who was sentenced to life in jail. Azerbaijan and Hungary both joined European Convention on Extradition.
24 November 2006 [23:03]
Azerbaijani Greco-Roman wrestlers brought home five medals of the international tournament, which pitted about 250 athletes from Russia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Belarus and Tajikistan against each other in Tver, Russia.
24 November 2006 [23:02]
While touring Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Ambassador of Moldova to Azerbaijan Ion Robu visited Nakhchivan State University (NSU).
24 November 2006 [22:57]
24 November 2006 [22:54]
On November 24, a meeting took place at the Baku Slavic University with the delegation headed by the Speaker of Bulgaria's National Assembly Georgi Pirinski.
24 November 2006 [22:28]
"Investigation should be made in the occupied territories to get broad information about Azerbaijani war prisoners and hostages.
24 November 2006 [22:23]
Police forces remove Azadliq, NGOs and APFP from their premises.
24 November 2006 [22:18]
Azerbaijan's Court of Grave Crimes continued the trial of the gang led by Haji Mammadov, former high ranking official of the Interior Ministry Crime Investigation Department.
24 November 2006 [22:08]
Azerbaijan international Sergei Sokolov has been provisionally suspended by UEFA after failing a doping test following last month's Euro 2008 qualifier against Belgium.
24 November 2006 [16:18]
Officers of National Security, Internal Affairs, Communications and Information Technologies Ministries and Prosecutor's Office arrived at ANS premises to execute the decision made by the National Council for Television and Radio.
24 November 2006 [15:46]
Court of Grave Crimes today continued the trial of the gang led by Haji Mammadov, former high ranking official of the Interior Ministry Crime Investigation Department.
24 November 2006 [15:38]
The editor-in-chief of Azadliq newspaper Ganimat Zahid who began hunger strike since November 9 stopped the strike.
24 November 2006 [13:56]
Ten school directors were dismissed as the result of controls held in 42 Baku schools by Education Ministry, Education Minister Misir Mardanov told the journalists.
24 November 2006 [13:03]
"I don't have anything specific on the hunger strike or on the specific issues surrounding it.
24 November 2006 [10:55]
24 November 2006 [10:49]
Two dead men were found in the guard's room of the shop in Saray settlement.
24 November 2006 [10:41]
Former captain of Azerbaijan national football team, Nazim Suleymanov got invitation from Russian clubs.
24 November 2006 [10:31]
Refugees' nationality was not included in the law "Repatriation of the refugees" passed in a few days in Georgia.
24 November 2006 [10:29]
International conference of self-regulation of media organized by Azerbaijan Press Council (PC) will be held in Baku next month.
24 November 2006 [10:28]
The members of Press Council met with the chairman of State Committee for Management of Public Property Kerem Hasanov.
24 November 2006 [10:26]
The next meeting of ISESCO (Islamic Education, Science and Culture Organizations) member states' Education Ministers will be held in Baku on September 8 in 2008, Education Minister Misir Mardanov told journalists.
23 November 2006 [23:57]
The International Football Federation has released its latest rankings where Azerbaijan rose five places to 123rd in the world.
23 November 2006 [23:56]
Moscow Committee of Education (MCE) and Azerbaijani Ministry of Education expand relations, MCE said. In June 2007, MCE will organize summer camps and Russian language courses for 20 Azeri school pupils at the Moscow secondary school N 157.
23 November 2006 [23:55]
The exhibition on the occasion of three-hundredth anniversary of great statesman and political figure Benjamin Franklin was opened at the Central Scientific Library of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS).
23 November 2006 [23:33]
On Thursday the First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva received a title of ISESCO goodwill ambassador.
23 November 2006 [23:27]
159 crimes on procuration of women, brothels and human trafficking were found in Azerbaijan this year.
23 November 2006 [23:20]
FIFA suspended Iran from international soccer Thursday because of government interference.
23 November 2006 [18:11]
Ombudsman of the Azerbaijan Republic with support of UNICEF on November 22 held a conference dedicated to the question how to create a safe world for children.
23 November 2006 [18:03]
There are 253 women prisoners in Azerbaijan at the moment. They serve their punishment in the detention ward 4.
23 November 2006 [16:35]
Court of Grave Crimes today continued the trial of the gang led by Haji Mammadov, former high ranking official of the Interior Ministry Crime Investigation Department.
23 November 2006 [15:45]
FILA refused to mitigate the punishment of Azerbaijani wrestler Husameddin Rejebli, who was disqualified for two years because of found banned preparations in his blood.
23 November 2006 [10:50]
Fikret Amirov's 1001 Nights ballet will be staged in Cairo Opera and Ballet Theatre, the Culture and Tourism Minister Abulfaz Garayev told the journalists.
23 November 2006 [10:45]
Azerbaijan Football Federation Association (AFFA) moves to Nobel Avenue in early December.
23 November 2006 [10:43]
The health of two Independent Azerbaijan University students holding hunger strike in Musavat Party Office deteriorated.
23 November 2006 [10:40]
"If Ganimat Zahidov does not stop hunger strike, this is his right, we cannot exert pressure on him. But I offered him to stop the strike.
23 November 2006 [10:34]
The number of people living in the Azeri territories occupied by Armenia decreased compared with last year.
22 November 2006 [23:05]
The editor-in-chief of Azerbaijan's Senet newspaper and a correspondent of the newspaper Rafik Tagi committed a serious crime by publishing an anti-Islamic article in the newspaper, Deputy Azeri Prosecutor General Rustam Usubov told journalists on Wednesday.
22 November 2006 [23:03]
The health of an Azerbaijani opposition editor who went on hunger strike about two weeks ago to protest government pressure is deteriorating, an opposition spokesman said Wednesday.
22 November 2006 [22:10]
"50 percent increase of judges by the president will enable to consider the court cases efficiently," said Minister of Justice Fikret Mammadov.
22 November 2006 [22:08]
Lifer Dayanat Kerimov has appealed to President Ilham Aliyev and right defenders.
22 November 2006 [22:05]
"It is illegal to shut these kindergartens down in connection with privatization.
22 November 2006 [22:03]
FC Baku intends to transfer David Pyeppey Etoo, brother of Barcelona's forward, Samuel Eto'o.
22 November 2006 [21:58]
Azerbaijan's Court of Grave Crimes continued the trial of the gang led by Haji Mammadov, former high ranking official of the Interior Ministry Crime Investigation Department.
22 November 2006 [21:38]
Azerbaijan's Court of Grave Crimes continued the trial of the gang led by Haji Mammadov, former high ranking official of the Interior Ministry Crime Investigation Department.
22 November 2006 [21:18]
Iran border-guards first saw the destruction of the crosses in Armenian cemetery near the old Juga territory.
22 November 2006 [14:26]
The wedding party resulted in tragedy in Barda.
22 November 2006 [14:25]
Although Education Ministry rose an issue of abolishing Derbend branch of Azerbaijan State Economic University at the Cabinet, it was not accepted at the meeting presided over the President.
22 November 2006 [14:23]
"We persist in holding football match between Azerbaijan and Armenia in neutral field. At the same time, it does not matter where the match will take place," said AFFA Secretary General Fuad Asadov.
22 November 2006 [13:54]
The health of the hunger-striking editor of the daily Azadlig, Ganimat Zahidov, has deteriorated sharply but he rejected a plea from the journalists' union to end his fast as a campaign by journalists and opponents of President Ilham Aliyev against press freedom violations gained momentum.
22 November 2006 [13:48]
Azerbaijan's Minister of Culture and Tourism Abulfaz Qarayev met November 21 with Egyptian Deputy Minister of Culture Mohammed Anwar Ibrahim and his accompanying delegation who arrived in Baku to participate in the Week of Egyptian Culture in Azerbaijan.