Society
18 May 2006 [08:36]
Academic Eldar Salayev's family and human rights defenders are going to re-appeal official bodies for his treatment abroad.
18 May 2006 [08:02]
Today one of the topical problems is related to geographical names, State Land and Cartography Committee chairman Garib Mamadov has told.
17 May 2006 [21:08]
May 17, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received at Presidential Palace BP’s Executive Vice President Andrew Inglish.
17 May 2006 [20:59]
17 May 2006 [20:57]
President of Azerbaijan fired Rafael Rasulov from the position of head of the Executive Power of Sharur region of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic.
17 May 2006 [16:54]
165 000 hectares of lands have been illegally seized in Azerbaijan so far.
17 May 2006 [15:40]
Azerbaijani karateka Ilgar Garayev (65 kg) won gold medal in the World Goju Ryu Karate Championship in Canada.
17 May 2006 [15:13]
Ministry of Education applied to Justice, Taxes Ministries for stopping activity of Independent Azerbaijan University.
17 May 2006 [14:56]
President of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS), academician Mahmud Kerimov met with well known surgeon, member of the Parisian International Academy of Surgery doctor Javad Hayat.
17 May 2006 [14:53]
The Education Ministry has already drawn up a plan on higher schools entrance.
17 May 2006 [14:48]
Georgia and Azerbaijan Interior ministries representatives and border regions police offices leaders met on May 17.
17 May 2006 [13:54]
66 Appeals have been entered to the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection since ratification of the document on addressed social aid.
17 May 2006 [13:21]
The Azeri embassy in Moscow has sent a diplomatic note to the Russian Foreign Ministry expressing protest at the invitation of an Nagorno karabakh delegation to a tourism exhibition in Moscow on May 11-14.
17 May 2006 [13:13]
A parliament member says work has been tackled to investigate the mass killings of Jews by Armenian Dashnaks [members of the nationalist party] in Azerbaijan's northern Guba district that took place at the dawn of the last century.
17 May 2006 [12:33]
The State Statistical Committee told that according to statistics there are 66 crimes for every 100 people.
17 May 2006 [09:16]
An aide to Azerbaijan's president on Tuesday denied a report that a centuries-old ethnic Armenian cemetery had been destroyed.
17 May 2006 [09:11]
The Republic of Ireland Under 21 team will take on Azerbaijan this Thursday in Buckley Park, kick off is at 7.15.
17 May 2006 [08:05]
"Media outlets are exaggerating the recent increasing immigration of Iranian citizens to Azerbaijan. There is no such phenomenon at all," Azerbaijan's Interior Minister Ramil Usubov told journalists.
16 May 2006 [20:45]
The heavy rains caused floods in Azerbaijan's north-western regions Balaken and Zagatala and washed away some villages in the past several days.
16 May 2006 [20:43]
"Thousands of compatriots left Georgia for Azerbaijan in past 10 years," said Ramil Usubov, Internal Affairs Minister in his speech to the media.
16 May 2006 [20:40]
Today opening Ceremony of Azerbaijan Interior Ministry Migration Organization Administrative building held.
16 May 2006 [20:26]
"The 13 May partial re-run of parliamentary elections was conducted in high level in Azerbaijan, and there were no serious irregularities during repeat parliamentary elections to overshadow democratic elections," said Mazahir Panahov, chairman of the Central Election Commission in a meeting today.
16 May 2006 [20:23]
Armenians have completely destroyed the water pipeline from the Ziyaret Mountain in Azerbaijan's occupied region Khojavend, which supplied Tugh village people with drinkable water.
16 May 2006 [20:19]
Muslim leaders in Azerbaijan called for protests against the film "The Da Vinci Code" Tuesday, saying the film version of the best-selling book insulted all believers.
16 May 2006 [12:42]
European Sambo Championship among youth and juniors, which brought together over 500 sportsmen of 40 countries of world will take place May 17 in Greece.
16 May 2006 [10:46]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed order on granting individual pension and presidential award to a group of art figures.
16 May 2006 [10:35]
New branch will be excavated to decrease flood danger created by Kyur.
16 May 2006 [10:17]
Members of the Coordination Council of Russian Azerbaijani Youths (CCRA), post-graduate of the Moscow State University Rufet Azizov and senior student of tourism economy faculty of the University Orkhan Akbarov visited APA Information Agency.
16 May 2006 [09:54]
The U.S. Embassy is pleased to announce that world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble will visit Baku this week.
16 May 2006 [09:22]
Ex-Minister Farhad Aliyev’s imprisonment term has been prolonged for 5 more months, decision was adopted in Nasimi region Court chaired by Mammadali Zulfugarov.
16 May 2006 [09:18]
The Nasimi district Court in Baku reviewed the appeal on prolongation of the former Health Minister Ali Insanov's imprisonment.
16 May 2006 [09:05]
International scientific-theoretical conference-Tolerance in Islam organized by the Azerbaijan National Academy of Science (ANAS) in cooperation with Caucasian Muslims Office (CMO) started yesterday.
16 May 2006 [08:43]
The required condition for the activity of beaches in Azerbaijan is strict.
16 May 2006 [08:33]
"I have been illegally put into prison by Georgian authorities for two years for groundless reasons. I went on hunger strike for three times protesting against my illegal arrest, pressures in the prison and at last, Georgian intelligence services provocations against Azerbaijanis," Gajar Huseynoiv, Azerbaijani correspondent of newspaper Yeni Dushunje (New way of thinking), banned in Georgia, member of Georgia Labor Party wrote in the letter to the National Assembly of Georgian Azerbaijanis (NAGA).
15 May 2006 [18:28]
Azerbaijani top chess player Teymur Radjabov can become a world chess champion next year by winning Bulgarian Veselin Topalov.
15 May 2006 [18:20]
Statements claiming the presence of radical Shiism in Azerbaijan may lead to confrontations between various religious movements, the Islamic Party of Azerbaijan said in a press release on Monday.
15 May 2006 [16:12]
An event entitled "Role of Israel in International Relations, Azerbaijan-Israel Relations" was held at the Azerbaijan University of Languages.
15 May 2006 [16:07]
"Training of staff is in much higher level in Azerbaijani Armed Forces compared with that in Georgia and Armenia. It was many times mentioned in international events," said head of Azerbaijani Armed Forces Military Academy, Colonel Najaf Gambarov.
15 May 2006 [13:55]
The Supreme Court's Plenary Session satisfied the complaint made by a life-term prisoner in Gobustan jail Samir Hajiyev, who applied for commuting his punishment to 15-year of imprisonment.
15 May 2006 [11:51]
The inauguration of Azerbaijani composer Uzeyir Hajibeyov's monument is expected to take place in Vienna, Minister of Culture and Tourism Abulfaz Garayev said.
14 May 2006 [09:50]
In view of the deepening US-Iranian divide, the Azeri State Committee for Work with Religious Associations has tightened control over mosques and religious organizations, the committee chairman Rafig Aliyev told journalists Friday.
13 May 2006 [15:44]
1st admission results to Russian higher schools conducted by State Students Admission Commission (SSAC) were announced.
13 May 2006 [10:00]
Featherweight pugilist Balwinder Beniwal won the lone medal, a bronze, for India at the 4th International cadet boxing tournament in Azerbaijan.
13 May 2006 [09:15]
Valdosta State University's Center for International Programs recently won an award from the Ministry of Education (MOE) of the Republic of Azerbaijan, a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia, that will help reform education in that country.
13 May 2006 [08:55]
Masazir, Boyuk-Shor, Mirzaladi, Kurdakhani, Puta, Girmizi, Shor, Gizil Nohur and Haji-Hasan lakes are polluted due to lack of centralized sewerage system in residential area.
12 May 2006 [23:11]
The Constitution Day of Norway will be celebrated in Baku.
12 May 2006 [22:57]
200 mln persons are drug addict over the world, 18 000 of them are in Azerbaijan.
12 May 2006 [22:28]
The CIS Interstate Aviation Committee experts are investigating the fragments of the flight recorder of An-140-100 plane, which crashed in Nardaran, Azerbaijan in December last year.
12 May 2006 [13:47]
Azerbaijani citizen Mushfig Faig Mammadov, member of "Jehovah's Witnesses" religious community has been arrested for evading the draft.
12 May 2006 [11:40]
Mount Vernon teachers travel to Azerbaijan over Spring Break.
12 May 2006 [10:50]
Azerbaijan National Security Ministry (MNS) neutralized an organized gang, which smuggled illicit drugs via Iran-Azerbaijan-Russia route.
12 May 2006 [10:23]
Transparency International, in close cooperation with ABA/CEELI, will present its latest quarterly report and discuss recent successes at the Anti Corruption Legal Advocacy Center in Ganja on Friday, May 12, 2006 at 4.00 pm.
12 May 2006 [10:14]
Armenians are illegally exploiting 155 kinds of various mineral deposits at the occupied Azerbaijani territories.
12 May 2006 [08:44]
Beginning from tomorrow and the day after tomorrow regarding to increase of water level in Araz Water Reservoir, the level of Kur is expected to increase.
12 May 2006 [08:13]
Azeri Education Ministry has announced the list of illegally functioning higher schools in Azerbaijan.
11 May 2006 [20:59]
Five American teenagers took home hardware from the 2006 Aliyev Cup, May 6-10 in Baku, Azerbaijan.
11 May 2006 [20:54]
Andy Keogh scored the first goals of his Republic of Ireland Under-21 career to secure a superb result for manager Don Givens' side.
11 May 2006 [15:52]
Kwon Yang Sook, spouse of the President of South Korea visited State Museum of Azerbaijan Carpet and People Applied Art, May 11.
11 May 2006 [13:27]
A delegation comprising of Turan Morali, Ambassador of Turkey to Azerbaijan, members of the Great National Assembly of Turkey and heads of municipalities visited Yevlakh region of Azerbaijan to attend the opening of "Park of friendship", symbol of Turkish-Azeri relations.
11 May 2006 [13:18]
Heavy rains in the north-western regions of Azerbaijan in the past three days caused floods in the Mazim, Balaken, Alazan and Tala rivers.
11 May 2006 [13:01]
Head of the OSCE mission on supervision over elections Girt Arens in connection with repeated elections to Milli Majlis of Azerbaijan Republic has visited Ganja.
11 May 2006 [10:52]
Education Ministry will conduct exam for Baku State University students to accredit the university.
11 May 2006 [10:28]
President Ilham Aliyev issued a decree on granting participants of the 1941-1945 war, widows of fighters died in battles or afterwards, persons conferred orders and medals for selfless labor in home front.
11 May 2006 [09:56]
Azerbaijan's 1.506.113 sq. meters area was cleared from mine and unexploded ordnances (UXO), 941 mines ad UXO were disarmed last month.
11 May 2006 [08:42]
State Committee for Family, Women and Child Problems has applied to President Ilham Aliyev to pardon a group of sentenced children on the Day of 1 June - International Children's Day, the Committee chairman Hijran Huseynova has told journalists.
10 May 2006 [21:58]
Lopez turned her back on Sofia, and several other cities.
10 May 2006 [20:26]
On May 12 in the Swiss town Nion (UEFA headquarters) the football delegations of Armenia and Azerbaijan will meet.
10 May 2006 [19:47]
Republic of Ireland under-21 manager Don Givens has enlisted the help of the English Football Association in a bid to avoid embarrassment against Azerbaijan.
10 May 2006 [18:03]
Azerbaijan's Youth and Sports Minister Azad Rahimov will pay a two-day official visit to Sofia, at the invitation of Bulgaria's State Agency for Youth and Sports on May 13.
10 May 2006 [16:42]
The 95th session of the International Labor Organization will convene June 6-10 June in Geneva.
10 May 2006 [15:41]
Solemn closing ceremony of the XXV Peoples Days festival was held in Egypt's Ayn Shams University.
10 May 2006 [14:34]
The joint meeting of the World Jews Congress and Eurasian Jewish Congress, which was to be held in Baku from May 15 to 17, was postponed.
10 May 2006 [14:33]
A ceremony was held at the Honorary Alley in commemoration of the then Azerbaijani President Heydar Aliyev's 83rd birthday today.
10 May 2006 [08:35]
Eight Azerbaijani women were convicted for prostitution by a New Delhi Metropolitan Magistrate here two years after their arrest in a raid at a city hotel.
10 May 2006 [08:34]
"All airplanes of AZAL are fit for use and they have no problems. That is why no plane purchase is expected within the next time," Jahangir Asgarov, Chief Director of Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) State Concern, told to the media.
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