Society
25 August 2006 [10:06]
Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of Population of Azerbaijan starts to hold meetings in regions from today.
25 August 2006 [09:54]
Heads of Azerbaijani Diaspora organizations in Russia held a roundtable organized by National NGO Forum Diaspora center.
25 August 2006 [09:50]
Court of Grave Crimes today continued the trial of the criminal gang led by Haji Mammadov, former high ranking official of Interior Ministry Crime Investigation Department.
25 August 2006 [09:12]
National TV and Radio Council (NTRC) will consider renewing licenses of ANS and LIDER televisions, Nushirevan Meherremli, NTRC chief told.
25 August 2006 [08:48]
Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, State Academic National Drama Theatre, Sate Russian Drama Theatre, State Young Spectators Theatre and State Puppet Theatre buildings will be capitally renovated.
24 August 2006 [22:05]
Accident happened in Azerbaijani Aghdash region Kotavan village.
24 August 2006 [21:40]
Orkhan Ahmadov, member of the Central Sports Army Club will represent Azerbaijan at the World Diving Junior Championship to be held August 23 in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur.
24 August 2006 [21:26]
On 23 August, Minister of Labor and Social Security Fizuli Alakbarov met with Bjorn Lomborg, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center.
24 August 2006 [21:24]
Moscow Prosecutor's office detained one more suspect of Monday bomb blast in Cherkizovo market in the Russian capital.
24 August 2006 [17:05]
The students of the private Independent Azerbaijan University (IAU) issued statement today.
24 August 2006 [15:34]
Court of Grave Crimes today continued the trial of the criminal gang led by Haji Mammadov, former high ranking official of Interior Ministry Crime Investigation Department.
24 August 2006 [13:24]
Estonian Central Criminal Police exposed a big smuggling network. The leader of the mafia, Azerbaijan-born Dutch citizen has been arrested.
24 August 2006 [09:09]
The structure of the peacekeeping party in Azerbaijani Armed Forces will be expanded.
23 August 2006 [20:25]
Powerlifting European Cup, which brought together 500 athletes from 13 countries, has ended in Tolyatti, Russia.
23 August 2006 [20:21]
The International free-style wrestling tournament in memory of world champion, Ziolkowski has wrapped up in Siedlce, Poland.
23 August 2006 [20:19]
The hospital will be supplied with the medical equipment meeting the high standards.
23 August 2006 [20:07]
Horrible crime was committed in Binagadi district.
23 August 2006 [20:02]
Turkmenistan citizen Teymour Talibov died mysteriously in Alligator cafe in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku this morning.
23 August 2006 [19:53]
Prisoner of Detention Place #12 Arzu Pashayev, who was sentenced to 8 years in jail, broke out of the prison on 22 August.
23 August 2006 [13:21]
Seven victims of the bomb blast in Cherikozovo market in the Russian capital, Moscow on Monday, have been identified.
23 August 2006 [10:05]
An Azeri court on Monday dropped a criminal suit against an opposition newspaper editor who was sentenced to one year in a prison camp earlier this month for libeling a parliamentary candidate, the newspaper's deputy editor said.
23 August 2006 [09:49]
South Azerbaijan Independence Party (SAIP) has called on Iranian Azeris to boycott the new academic year, Saleh Ildirim.
23 August 2006 [09:36]
Transparency International Azerbaijan, in close cooperation with ABA/CEELI, will present its new U.S.
23 August 2006 [09:15]
State Veterinary Service at Agriculture Ministry together with Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry (ENRM) hold surveillance on bird flu on previous route.
22 August 2006 [21:52]
30 life-term prisoners of Gobustan jail in Azerbaijan started three day warning protest action on August 21.
22 August 2006 [13:58]
Azerbaijani cultural and historical monuments in the territories occupied by Armenians suffered damage of $6.72bn.
22 August 2006 [13:04]
Three ancient gravestones were found in Lenkeran region Zovle village during the construction works in the cemetery.
22 August 2006 [11:44]
Imprisoned correspondent of Azerbaijani Yeni Dushunje newspaper, which has been suspended in Georgia, Gajar Huseynov started hunger strike in the prison.
21 August 2006 [22:35]
Ten people, including two children, have died and 49 have been injured by an explosion at the Cherkizovo market place of Moscow.
21 August 2006 [21:25]
Ombudsman Elmira Suleymanova met with several life-term prisoners in Gobustan jail on 17 August.
21 August 2006 [16:42]
Court of Grave Crimes today continued the court proceeding against the criminal gang led by Haji Mammadov, former official of Crime Investigation Department of Interior Ministry.
21 August 2006 [15:49]
Baku resident Eyvaz Rzayev died in his car at 9am near the Fuzuli avenue.
21 August 2006 [13:18]
Weather temperature is forecast to rise in Aran regions and Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan.
21 August 2006 [13:15]
Azerbaijan's State Student Admission Commission (SSAC) will accept documents for additional admission to vacancies in higher schools and for the first stage of technical schools from August 23 till 27.
21 August 2006 [12:11]
The total number of crimes committed in Azerbaijan in the first six months of this year increased.
21 August 2006 [11:40]
The funeral of Mehmet Kangarli, head of the Azerbaijan National Center will be held in Karshiyaka cemetery in Ankara, Turkey on Tuesday.
21 August 2006 [10:36]
Azerbaijan's Fide Master Ulvi Bajarani won the under-12 title at the Abu Dhabi International Chess Festival even before playing his last match.
20 August 2006 [23:26]
The Azeri women's team won in their final match in the first leg of the World Grand Prix in Hong Kong yesterday, coming back from two sets down to claim a hard-fought game 3-2 against Thailand.
20 August 2006 [23:15]
Rapid World Championship chess match over eight games between Teymur Rajabov and Vishy Anand is over.
20 August 2006 [18:56]
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan held 'round table', devoted to mutual relations between journalists and police, 19 August.
20 August 2006 [11:51]
Azerbaijan failed to stop China's fierce attack as the Athens Olympic champion clinched their second consecutive victory at the 2006 FIVB World Grand Prix on Saturday.
20 August 2006 [02:39]
Grand Master Vugar Gashimov of Azerbaijan became the sole leader of the Masters Championship at the Abu Dhabi International Chess Festival after beating Russian GM Sergey Grigoriants in the sixth round.
20 August 2006 [02:00]
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has sent humanitarian aid of 5 thousand bodies of sacrificial sheep to Azerbaijani internally displaced persons (IDP) with Islamic Development Bank's funding.
19 August 2006 [16:51]
The Chinese women's volleyball team beat Thailand 3-0 on Friday at the preliminary round of the FIVB World Grand Prix in Hong Kong.
19 August 2006 [16:16]
"We are ready to open new TV and Radio channels and strengthen the broadcasting abroad," Communications and Information technologies Minister Ramil Usubov said.
19 August 2006 [15:54]
"Haji Mammadov is a skillful schemer. He managed to mislead and trick us when he was a senior official but we now should be careful so as not to be misled, Interior Minister of Azerbaijan," Ramil Usubov stated.
19 August 2006 [15:42]
It is known how much the international financial organization will donate in next years to Azerbaijan for the improvement of living conditions of refugees and IDPs, Gurban Sadigov, Cabinet of Minister's refugee and IDP problems department chairman, stated.
19 August 2006 [09:48]
Ambassadors, consuls and representatives to foreign states visited Galagayin displaced-persons camp in Sabirabad.
19 August 2006 [09:45]
State Border Service (SBS) will not have soldiers by the end of 2015, State Border Service chairman Elchin Guliyev told journalists.
19 August 2006 [09:36]
"I decided to resign from the World Azerbaijanis Congress Assembly membership and representative office in Belgium to which I was appointed in the 8th Congress in Stockholm because of the Congress’s contradicting activity towards Azerbaijan Diaspora failure in coordination works," Bulent Gurcam, Belgium-Azerbaijan House chairman and WAC member told the journalists.
18 August 2006 [21:22]
The Fifth International Aerospace Congress IAC' 2006 dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the orbital launch of space station 'Mir' will take place August 27-31 in Moscow.
18 August 2006 [21:00]
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev issued an executive order to renovate and protect historical-architectural monuments in Baku.
18 August 2006 [20:58]
"70 percent of Azerbaijan's water balance is formed outside the republic. We are obliged to use Kyur's water, because, it is the biggest water source in the country.
18 August 2006 [15:31]
Several groups involved in trafficking in women are expected to be exposed soon, the State Border Service (SBS) chief Elchin Guliyev told journalists.
18 August 2006 [14:24]
President Ilham Aliyev issued a decree on increasing the number of judges and defining jurisdiction of courts.
18 August 2006 [13:02]
Three shepherds and about 1,000 head of sheep have disappeared in Azerbaijani region of Zaatala, in Dedibot chain of mountains bordering with Dagestan, Russia.
18 August 2006 [12:59]
Narimanov district court dismissed the complaints of the private Independent Azerbaijan University students, which claimed that the Education Ministry and University authorities violated their right to receive education.
18 August 2006 [09:56]
The temperature will rise again in Azerbaijan in the first half of the next week, Umayra Tagiyeva, Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry National Hydrometeorological Office hydrological forecasting bureau chair informs.
18 August 2006 [09:48]
"Ataholding" OJSC will sponsor staging of "Arshin mal alan" musical comedy by Azerbaijani composer Uzeyir Hajibayov's in Austrian capital, Vienna in Cammeroper Theatre on 27, 28 and 30 September, this year.
18 August 2006 [09:25]
108 different textbooks were published for secondary schools in Azerbaijan this year, Education Minister Misir Mardanov stated.
17 August 2006 [22:06]
China and Russia will set up a rematch of their Athens Olympics final when they clash in the first leg of the World Grand Prix on Thursday.
17 August 2006 [21:30]
During the first half of this year the internal affairs department of Karaganda region (Kazakhstan) detained nine people, subjects of an international search hiding from the law enforcement agencies of the neighbouring states, said Senior Assistant Prosecutor of Karaganda region Bahytjamal Jaksybaeva.
17 August 2006 [21:15]
"There were no Azerbaijanis among the dead people in the bus crash on Istanbul-Tbilisi route," said Ilham Nezerli, consul of Azerbaijani Embassy in Turkey.
17 August 2006 [21:02]
Two women involved in human traffic were arrested during the joint operation conducted by Azerbaijan's State Border Service and Interior Ministry (IM) Main Office To Fight Organized Crimes (MOFOC) on August 16.
17 August 2006 [21:01]
He says the prison authorities are practicing blackmail and pursuit against him.
17 August 2006 [16:25]
Azerbaijani displaced-persons settled in the DP camps in Berde region and Berde-Yevlakh roadside Ereb-1 have been transferred to new settlements, Elman Ismayilov, State Committee for Refugees and IDPs Repatriation Department chief told.
17 August 2006 [14:25]
The International Football Federation has announced its latest rankings where Azerbaijan moved up three places to 106th.
17 August 2006 [14:12]
After the solemn ceremony of military oath, deputy Minister of Emergency Situations Faig Taghizade delivered a speech before the personnel.
17 August 2006 [14:10]
A bus en route from Istanbul to Tbilisi crashed in Kavak province in Samsun killing at six passengers and heavily injuring 31.
17 August 2006 [13:02]
45-year-old man died of heart failure in "Neftchilar" station of Baku Subway this morning.
17 August 2006 [10:11]
The echelon loaded with weapons and military equipment withdrawn from Russian 62nd military base in Akhalkhalak, Georgia, was delivered to Russian military men at Yalama station in Azerbaijan at 13:00 today.
17 August 2006 [10:03]
GM Vugar Gashimov, from Azerbaijan, and GM Alexei Fedorov, from Belarus, the top-ranked players, shared the leadership in the Masters Championship at the Abu Dhabi International Chess Festival.
17 August 2006 [09:37]
"The draft law on alternative military service will be discussed in parliament autumn session after approval of relevant organizations," Ziyafat Asgerov, Parliament vice-president and Head of standing Commission for Security and Defense Affairs told the journalists.
17 August 2006 [09:32]
Junior Faculty Development Program is implemented in Azerbaijan.
16 August 2006 [22:03]
President Aliyev issued an executive order to appoint Arif Alishanov chairman of the Azerbaijan TV and Radio Broadcast Closed JSC.
EU acknowledges strategic significance of Baku International Sea Trade Port in Middle Corridor
Weapons & ammunition discovered in Khankendi
South Korea conducts live-fire exercises near borders of DPRK
Azerbaijani Army units conduct inspection in military equipment
TikTok closed in Kyrgyzstan
Azerbaijan's AccessBank joins UN Global Compact
Navigating challenges in Azerbaijan's trade turnover amidst global uncertainties