Society
14 August 2006 [00:58]
1st International Drama Festival to be held in Kazakhstan.
14 August 2006 [00:46]
Azerbaijan's national women's volleyball team defeated Kazakhstan 3-1 in a friendly game in Baku.
13 August 2006 [18:48]
Several persons were injured as a result of the fire in a high-rise apartment building.
13 August 2006 [02:22]
"Prosecutors aim to confirm the allegations by asking questions Haji Mammadov against Zakir Nasirov," said lawyer Adil Ismayilov.
13 August 2006 [02:19]
"Milli Yol" newspaper editor-in-chief Shahin Aghabeyli, who was sentenced to one year in prison by the parliamentarian Arif Rehimzadeh's claim, met with his family.
13 August 2006 [02:16]
"Qayda-Qanun" LLC chief, Baku resident Eldar Babayev was detained in an operation held by Interior Ministry Crime Investigation Department.
13 August 2006 [02:12]
The last university entrance examinations were conducted in Azerbaijan today.
12 August 2006 [15:12]
"The Religious Belief and Conscience Freedom Support Center functions illegally and its president Ilgar Ibrahimoglu benefits from the organization for his political interests," said Adil Huseynov, Caucasus Religious Belief and Conscience Freedom Support Center (CRBCFSC) Azerbaijan Office chief.
12 August 2006 [15:00]
The plane taking off from the Heydar Aliyev International Airport en route to Surgut made emergency landing on Friday.
12 August 2006 [14:59]
The 6th international forum of Azerbaijani students studying abroad was held in the capital Baku on Saturday.
12 August 2006 [14:53]
With the support of the Canadian International Development Agency, representatives of the Association of Canada-Azerbaijan Cooperation stayed in Azerbaijan from August 1 to 10.
12 August 2006 [14:51]
Representatives of the national councils of the youth organizations of Sweden, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova and Georgia will visit Azerbaijan on August 14.
12 August 2006 [11:18]
A talented group of teenagers from New York put together a dazzling show to help young children halfway across the world. On Aug. 8, the United Kids of America song and dance troupe performed "Step By Step, Child By Child" at the Kennedy Center's Family Theater in an effort to raise money for orphanages in Azerbaijan.
11 August 2006 [22:18]
Based on information provided to the International Press Institute (IPI), there are renewed concerns about press freedom in Azerbaijan.
11 August 2006 [16:02]
Though Rehovot resident Leonid Ptashka's name might not mean much to most Israelis, in the former Soviet Union and many other places across the globe, the 42-year-old Azerbaijan-born jazz pianist is a household name.
11 August 2006 [15:56]
Caviar lovers may benefit from a five-nation deal entering into force from Saturday meant to clean up the badly polluted Caspian Sea.
11 August 2006 [15:51]
Control was beefed up in Azerbaijani border checkpoints after revealing group attempting to commit terrorist acts in London on 10 August, this year.
11 August 2006 [15:14]
Azerbaijani Border Troops soldiers will be replaced with professional personnel in accordance with the Individual Partnership Action Plan (IPAP) signed between NATO and Azerbaijani government.
11 August 2006 [14:37]
Silver medallists of Azerbaijan's last football championship Karvan lost 0-2 to Czech Slavia Prague in Baku in the first tie of the two-legged second qualifying round of UEFA Cup.
11 August 2006 [14:06]
Azerbaijan State Railway Company was put on alert due to supposed terror danger.
11 August 2006 [14:03]
The last university entrance examinations of this academic year will be conducted in Azerbaijan tomorrow.
11 August 2006 [14:01]
The ammunition depot near Saloglu village of Aghstafa region of Azerbaijan is being cleared.
11 August 2006 [13:58]
Baku Main Police Department Public Security Office detained 93 beggars during a raid in Bilajari settlement of the capital and took to Binagadi station.
11 August 2006 [10:05]
India's Viswanathan Anand won the 21st Ciudad de Villarrobledo rapid chess title following a four-way tie in the Spanish town of Villarrobledo on Sunday.
11 August 2006 [09:36]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev approved Regulations of State Committee for Family, Woman and Children Problems.
11 August 2006 [09:12]
Baku police arrested seven wanted persons. As Baku Police Department informs there is one Police Special Assignment Group (OPON) member among arrested men.
11 August 2006 [08:51]
Amnesty International is concerned at the sharp deterioration in freedom of expression in Azerbaijan, and in particular the killing, beating and intimidation of journalists.
10 August 2006 [22:41]
Armenian National Academy of Science Archeology Institute announced the results of the archeological excavations carried out in occupied Azerbaijani region of Agdam.
10 August 2006 [22:10]
National TV and Radio Council (NTRC) appealed to the local Economic Court #1 by the claim to ban B&B cable television broadcasting in Baku, NTRC chairman Nushiravan Meherremli stated.
10 August 2006 [16:07]
An Azerbaijani court has sentenced the editor-in-chef of an opposition newspaper to a year in prison after being convicted on charges of libeling a lawmaker of the country's ruling Yeni Azerbaijan party.
10 August 2006 [15:34]
Our compatriot living in Ukraine Alimammad Guliyev is going to stage continuous protest action at Independence Square in the capital Kyiv.
10 August 2006 [14:53]
Shahin Akhundov, who was involved in the crime outside Turkey's embassy in Azerbaijan in December, 2005, was arrested in Turkey.
10 August 2006 [14:14]
President Ilham Aliyev is visiting Salyan and Lenekran regions to get acquainted with the measures implemented within the state program on socio-economic development of regions.
10 August 2006 [09:47]
In near future the Caspian Sea level will rise 1.5 meters. 87 700 hectares of the territory (1.6%) will be flooded by the sea.
10 August 2006 [09:41]
In the past seven months of the year, Azerbaijani Constitutional Court received 1,333 individual complaints.
10 August 2006 [00:06]
Social taboos are slowly being lifted on women marrying men from other countries.
09 August 2006 [18:54]
Several life-term prisoners, whose death punishments were commuted to life-term imprisonment, are going to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights.
09 August 2006 [18:40]
Azerbaijan's Court of Grave Crimes today continued the trial of the criminal gang led by Haji Mammadov, former official of Crime Investigation Department of Interior Ministry.
09 August 2006 [18:20]
In exclusive interview with Balkanalysis.com director Christopher Deliso, Canadian journalist and publisher Scott Taylor shares his insights on the current situation in the strategic Caucasus republic of Azerbaijan, from where he recently reported.
09 August 2006 [16:37]
Seven-man Azerbaijan national free style wrestling team will attend the international tournament in Siedlche, Poland, August 18-20.
09 August 2006 [16:36]
The world-wide obsession with the King of rock'n'roll, Elvis Presley, continues and now spreads to Baku.
09 August 2006 [16:26]
The 53 winners of the contest held in Azerbaijan within the framework of the Future Leaders Exchange program were named.
09 August 2006 [15:32]
"Azerbaijan and Turkey will cooperate in organizing joint trainings of sportsmen as well as in struggle against doping and several other spheres," said Turkish State Minister Mehmet Ali Shahin, who is visiting Azerbaijan.
09 August 2006 [15:15]
25-year-old resident of Laman village of Lerik region, Azerbaijan, Jamal Mirzajan Alishov was murdered in the Russian city of Stavropol.
09 August 2006 [10:33]
Fire broke out in the 3rd car of Baku-Buzovna-Merdekan electric train near "Bakavtomat" railway station.
09 August 2006 [10:31]
Resident of Veravul village of Lenkeran, 16-year-old schoolboy Samir Shakir Rasulov drowned in the sea in Baku.
09 August 2006 [10:31]
Azerbaijan's Interior Ministry Office To Fight Organized Crimes arrested a trafficker in women during a special operation.
09 August 2006 [10:24]
Air temperature will rise in Azerbaijan on August 11.
09 August 2006 [09:29]
Head of the Office of Caucasian Muslims Haji Allahshukur Pashazadeh ended his visit in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
09 August 2006 [09:12]
Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry intends to set up a special station to study the impact of Daryal Installation in Gabala Radar Station on environment.
09 August 2006 [08:43]
Six officers of Georgian Interior Ministry Security Service confiscated 30 copies of newspaper "Hummat" (published in Azerbaijan) from the members of National Assembly of Georgian Azerbaijanis (NAGA) by force today.
09 August 2006 [08:32]
Secondary schools will be financed from the state budget by new principles from next year.
08 August 2006 [21:55]
Court of Grave Crimes today continued the trial of the gang led by Haji Mammadov, former official of the Interior Ministry Crime Investigation Department.
08 August 2006 [21:31]
Turkish State Minister Mehmet Ali Shahin today met with Azerbaijani Youth and Sports Minster Azad Rahimov.
08 August 2006 [16:30]
Court of Grave Crimes today continued the trial of the gang led by Haji Mammadov, former official of the Interior Ministry Crime Investigation Department.
08 August 2006 [14:17]
Azerbaijan's chief prosecutor says he is investigating whether former Economic Minister Farhad Aliyev was involved in last year's murder of opposition journalist Elmar Husseynov.
08 August 2006 [13:46]
Next echelon of Russian military base #62 departed for Russia from Salka railway station, Georgia on 09.00 am today.
08 August 2006 [08:12]
The 4th congress of Commonwealth of Independent States oncologists and radiologists will take lace in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, from September 28, this year.
07 August 2006 [21:47]
Azerbaijan's National Security and Interior Ministries conducted a joint operation neutralizing an organized gang involved in smuggling narcotic drugs in Azerbaijan from Iran.
07 August 2006 [21:46]
The Finnish Border Guard apprehended eight Armenians who were attempting to travel to Sweden through Finland.
07 August 2006 [21:33]
One more echelon loaded with weapons, military supplies and equipment withdrawn from Russian 62nd military base in Akhalkalak, Georgia, will depart from Salka railway station tomorrow.
07 August 2006 [20:47]
Baku Police Department conducted raids on nightclubs in the capital to reinforce struggle against cases damaging public moral.
07 August 2006 [14:21]
Ministry of Emergency Situations will use Turkey's and Russia's experiences to form its structure.
06 August 2006 [20:55]
A tragic accident occurred in the village of Sutyamurdu in Lankaran District at 1400 [0900 gmt] on 4 August.
06 August 2006 [18:39]
Azerbaijan's Under-17 national football team will attend the international tournament in Palanga, Lithuania, August 16-23.
06 August 2006 [14:37]
Cable breakages in Georgia become permanent.
06 August 2006 [14:29]
Azerbaijan gets a jump on its neighbours in developing Caspian Sea oil.
05 August 2006 [16:17]
The Education Ministry appealed to the students admitted to illegal educational institutions to withdraw their documents immediately.
05 August 2006 [16:10]
World Health Organization released a report on rating of smokers in world countries.
05 August 2006 [15:56]
Azeri karate fighter Amal Atayev (80 kg) won a gold medal at the 5th World University Games in New York.
05 August 2006 [10:35]
Rahim Allahverdiyev defeated Moldavian fighter in professional kickboxing championship in Moscow.
05 August 2006 [09:39]
Azerbaijani 2 482 827 sq. meters of area has been cleared from mines and UXO in July this year.
05 August 2006 [09:35]
Azerbaijani Former Economic Development Minister Farhad Aliyev agreed to receive treatment in the Treatment Center of Main Office for Implementation of Verdicts.
05 August 2006 [09:29]
Gobustan prison life-term prisoners Georgi Geladze, Ali Guliyev and Shakir Rzakhanov, who went on hunger strike not long ago, are complaining of pressure put by the prison officials.
05 August 2006 [09:13]
The International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF) and the Human Rights Centre of Azerbaijan (HRCA) together condemn and denounce the arrest and prosecution of noted journalist and satirist Sakit Zakhidov (a.k.a. Mirza Sakit) on charges widely believed to have been fabricated and politically motivated.
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