Society
17 July 2006 [16:10]
The new head of the World Heath Organization (WHO) representative office in Azerbaijan will be made public in August or September this year.
17 July 2006 [16:06]
Baku Main Police Department Public Security Office has conducted tom remove illegal buildings near Ganli Gol in Yasamal District.
17 July 2006 [15:05]
15 peoples fell victim to mines and UXO in 11 accidents in Azerbaijan in six months of this year.
17 July 2006 [14:52]
The Uzbekistan U-19 squad left for Baku, Azerbaijan, for a week-long training camp which also involves three friendlies.
17 July 2006 [13:34]
The students of the private Independent Azerbaijan University (IAU) have been exempted from conscription for three months in order to solve their problems.
17 July 2006 [13:33]
The Managing Staff of the Federation of Canadian Azerbaijani Associations held a meeting on Sunaday.
17 July 2006 [13:32]
Azerbaijan State Social Protection Foundation works on amendments to the law on labor pensions.
17 July 2006 [13:29]
The health of Azerbaijan's opposition 'Azadliq' newspaper journalist Sakit Zahidov (Mirza Sakit), who is detained in Bayilov prison #1, has severely deteriorated.
17 July 2006 [13:12]
An official has dismissed allegations that attacks on journalists have assumed an alarming scale in Azerbaijan.
17 July 2006 [12:58]
July 14 marks the anniversary of the nationwide leader, former president Heydar Aliyev's coming to power in Azerbaijan for the first time in 1969.
17 July 2006 [10:33]
Azerbaijan's Supreme Court chairman Ramiz Rzayev will receive Elchin Behbudoiv, head of the Committee Against Torture.
16 July 2006 [16:20]
The expedition was organized to test radiation and nuclear security of the marine sediments in the Caspian Sea.
16 July 2006 [16:10]
Education Minister Misir Mardanov, head of the UNICEF Azerbaijan office Hanaa Singer and Professor of the Stockholm University Nadir Ahmedli held a meeting to discuss the personnel training for social sphere in the higher and specialized secondary educational institutions and other issues.
15 July 2006 [14:09]
The delegation led by the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) Executive Director James Morris will visit Azerbaijan on July 28.
15 July 2006 [08:36]
3.403.982 sq. meters of area have been cleared from mines in Azerbaijan since May 8 this year.
15 July 2006 [08:22]
The Peace and Democracy Institute director Leyla Yunus held a press conference yesterday.
15 July 2006 [00:56]
The last month has seen some notable changes on the Azerbaijani football scene. New signings, new stadiums and new foreigner rulings are just some of the developments that have taken place.
14 July 2006 [22:16]
Azerbaijani Health Ministry finished inspections in AIDS Center.
14 July 2006 [15:22]
Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry experts found the only ecologically unpolluted area in the Caspian Sea whiles monitoring, the Ministry Caspian Sea Monitoring Department chairwoman Latifa Huseynova said.
14 July 2006 [15:14]
Azerbaijan's State Committee for Religious Organizations (SCFRO) today held a meeting with representatives of Muslim religious communities functioning in Baku.
14 July 2006 [15:10]
Four life-termers still continue to go on hunger strike in Gobustan Jail.
14 July 2006 [00:41]
Attorney Toghrul Babayev has met with ex-health minister Ali Insanov detained in MNS investigation ward.
13 July 2006 [22:44]
On Thursday FC Karvan and FC Karabakh started their campaigns in UEFA Cup.
13 July 2006 [21:26]
FIDE announced players' new rating for July.
13 July 2006 [21:16]
Armenians continue fire in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan.
13 July 2006 [20:59]
6 Azerbaijanis injured in road crash in Gazi Antep province of Turkey.
13 July 2006 [20:57]
State Commission for Student Admission has announced the date of entrance examinations for institutes.
13 July 2006 [20:19]
The mines discovered by Husenli village residents of Terter region, Azerbaijan, some days ago have been rendered harmless.
13 July 2006 [18:45]
Two policemen and a Azeri man have been taken to hospital after being shot in an incident in eastern Moscow, police said Thursday.
13 July 2006 [16:20]
University graduates have submitted application for master's degree since July 7.
13 July 2006 [15:39]
On July 12, Armenians set out fire in Gulchuluk farm areas of Aghdam occupied by Armenians, beginning at 21.00, the fire crossed the contact line.
13 July 2006 [10:22]
The Grave Crimes Court on Wednesday handed down jail terms to the members of an opposition youth movement charged with attempting to topple the government with the aid of the Armenian secret service.
13 July 2006 [01:09]
On Wednesday human rights defenders Organizations Monitoring Group members-Saida Gojamanli, Novella Jafaroglu, Seadat Bananyarli and Chingiz Ganizade monitored Gobustan jail.
13 July 2006 [00:58]
"Let's fancy that one of the Armenian NGOs has recognized the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan. This cannot change anything," said Azeri writer and publicist Alekper Aliyev said.
13 July 2006 [00:41]
Ministry of Health issued a statement on the guests' having gotten poisoned at the wedding in Peshtetuk village, Lerik, Azerbaijan.
13 July 2006 [00:34]
Ministry of National Security (MNS) rendered harmless the criminal detachment bringing narcotic drugs through smuggling from Iran to Azerbaijan as a result of the raid conducted.
13 July 2006 [00:24]
ITAR-TASS Agency office of Russia in Georgia has been robbed by unknown persons.
12 July 2006 [16:31]
Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan plats the ecological map of forests burned by Armenians in the occupied territories.
12 July 2006 [16:23]
According to the agreement signed between Azerbaijan State Oil Academy (ASOA) and Oil University of China, over 49 young Chinese students will come to Baku to pursue their study in ASOA.
12 July 2006 [15:53]
A Moscow's court sent two Muscovites to prison for one and a half years Wednesday for assaulting a television producer of Azerbaijani origin in a sentence that even surprised the prosecution.
12 July 2006 [12:35]
The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned by the detention of a critical journalist in Azerbaijan on what local press freedom activists and opposition journalists call trumped up drug charges.
12 July 2006 [12:28]
Oscar organizers on Tuesday said they invited 83 countries to submit movies for foreign language film nominations for the movie industry's top honors including first timers, Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan.
12 July 2006 [11:55]
The Public Union for Humanitarian Assistance to Education, Culture and Social Fields is getting ready to hold TV marathons in Azerbaijan and abroad.
12 July 2006 [03:15]
Ministry of Health stopped DiaMed Medical Center's activity on June 29.
11 July 2006 [18:33]
On July 10, beginning from the afternoon hours Armenians started fire in Terter, Aghdam and Khojavend regions of Azerbaijan under occupation of Armenians.
11 July 2006 [18:31]
"Life sentenced prisoners continue hunger strike in Gobustan Detention Place," said Azerbaijan National Committee chief against Tortures, Elchin Behbudov.
11 July 2006 [18:03]
A group of right defenders will hold monitoring in Gobustan prison on Wednesday.
11 July 2006 [17:43]
According to Azeri representation to UNESCO inclusion of Hirkan woods in the list of Global Cultural and Natural Heritage of UNESCO and condition of Icheri Sheher will be discussed at XXX session of UNESCO Global Cultural and Natural Heritage Committee which is held in Vilnius.
11 July 2006 [17:37]
Rasim Ojagov, the outstanding Azeri film director passed away in Baku.
11 July 2006 [12:04]
11 July 2006 [11:42]
Turkish Hurriyyet newspaper continues publishing controversial reports concerning the Azeri consul-general in Istanbul Ibrahim Nabioghlu.
11 July 2006 [01:16]
Azerbaijan State Musical Comedy Theatre will close the season on July 15 with the performance 'Love Affair'.
11 July 2006 [01:11]
In the end of the last week seminar–conference on Azerbaijan held in Japan for the first time in Osaka University, Azerbaijan-Japan Friendship Society (AJFS) program's second program for making Azerbaijan known in Japan held the second seminar.
11 July 2006 [01:04]
Tender announced by the National Television and Radio Council on 43rd channel through which Khachmaz TV is broadcasting.
10 July 2006 [20:31]
"Lake Boyuk Shor in Baku shouldn't be dehydrated. It can have bad results.
10 July 2006 [16:38]
Document's admission to high schools ends on Monday.
10 July 2006 [16:27]
Natural calamities annually cause damage to Azerbaijan to the tune of $15-50m, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
10 July 2006 [16:26]
The population of Azerbaijan increased by 47,000 (0.6%) in the first half of 2006 to reach 8,483,000 as of July 1.
09 July 2006 [21:51]
Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared July 10 a day of mourning for the victims of a Siberia air crash Sunday.
09 July 2006 [21:39]
President Aliyev sent a message of condolences to Vladimir Putin.
09 July 2006 [21:22]
Pointing to the parched ground of this farming village in the Azerbaijani steppes, Aliman Mammadov said the oil pipeline built under his land by British oil giant BP has left him poor.
09 July 2006 [00:23]
Three Iranian painters have been invited to participate in the 5th Gyumri International Biennial of Contemporary Art, which is scheduled to open in Armenia on August 8.
08 July 2006 [23:30]
Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev has signed a decree to improve transportation system.
08 July 2006 [09:35]
In nearest future hot line will be opened for victims of human trafficking In Baku, at present talks continue with the government related to this matter.
08 July 2006 [09:31]
None of the historical monuments being in the registration of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism has been protected so far.
08 July 2006 [00:54]
Second Sub-Regional Training Course on implementing the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes to be held on July 10-14 in Baku, Azerbaijan.
07 July 2006 [23:24]
"There are 257 female prisoners in Azerbaijan at present, 27 of them are citizens of neighboring countries," Justice Ministry Court Awards Execution Main Office Detention Place chief for Women, Muzaffar Mammadov has told journalists.
07 July 2006 [19:52]
On Friday Samanyolu television (STV) held presentation of the film on Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.
07 July 2006 [19:49]
On Friday President Ilham Aliyev fired Nazim Mehdi Ismayilov from the post of Goychay Executive Power chairman.
07 July 2006 [19:43]
Zagatala police detained two wanted Georgian citizens on July 6.
07 July 2006 [19:39]
"Hajj pilgrimage this year will start by the end of December," official of Caucasus Muslims office informs.
07 July 2006 [19:36]
Chirman of Caucasus Muslims Office (CMO) Haji Allahshukur Pashazade visits Saudi Arabia.
07 July 2006 [19:28]
Iranian ambassador to Azerbaijan called on all Azerbaijani structures, institutions as well as juridical, political and social organizations to exert pressure on international organizations in order to achieve return of Iran's cultural heritage taken by the USA 70 years ago.
07 July 2006 [19:26]
Ministry of Health has announced the list of population group of privilege working in health enterprises operating on paid base.
07 July 2006 [15:37]
Some underground stations in the Azerbaijani capital will be renamed by fall.