Society
03 July 2006 [03:10]
A moderate earthquake shook the southeastern Turkish province of Bingol on Sunday, a seismology center said. There were no reports of any damage or injuries.
03 July 2006 [03:04]
Ombudsman's Office associates have met with imprisoned correspondent of Azadliq newspaper Sakit Zahidov, who is detained in Interior Ministry Region Police Office temporary detention place, by the errand of commissioner for Human Rights Elmira Suleymanova.
02 July 2006 [16:49]
Azerbaijani poet Nizami Ganjavi's love stories of "Leyli ve Majnun" and "Khosrov ve Shirin" were translated into the Uzbek language.
01 July 2006 [22:07]
Azerbaijan national free-style and Greco-Roman wrestling teams will attend the European Championship, which will be held in Szombathely, Hungary, July 4-9.
01 July 2006 [22:02]
Agriculture, health agencies issue progress reports on pandemic planning.
01 July 2006 [21:25]
"Necessary measures are implemented to provide security of Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline.
01 July 2006 [21:21]
Azerbaijanis living in Logadekhi and Telavi regions of Georgia will apply to President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili and President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev.
01 July 2006 [21:12]
Turkish music star Tarkan performed a show in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku on Friday.
01 July 2006 [21:08]
Azerbaijan's Ministry of Taxes held an inspection held in the Atlantis LLC of from July 8, 2003 till January 1, 2006 and found out that tax in the amount of AZN 277.8 thousand was embezzled.
01 July 2006 [10:24]
The World Summit of Religious Leaders will take place in Moscow from July 3 to 5.
01 July 2006 [09:46]
International conference on Water Supply Problems in Emergencies will be held at Azerbaijan State Architecture and Construction University July 6-7.
01 July 2006 [09:34]
Azerbaijan Committee leader against Tortures, Elchin Behbudov today has met with ex-health and economic development ministers - Ali Insanov and Farhad Aliyev, detained in Ministry of National Security (MNS).
01 July 2006 [09:20]
Education Ministry and Emergencies Ministry today concluded an agreement on cooperation.
30 June 2006 [22:04]
Several presidential decrees were made public today.
30 June 2006 [16:46]
The students of Independent Azerbaijan University, who started hunger strike from June 10, today have stopped hunger strike. They told about it in the press conference.
30 June 2006 [15:49]
The reason of the fire on July 26 in Central Officers' House is being investigated by Ministry for Emergencies. Minister for Emergencies Kamaleddin Heydarov stated.
30 June 2006 [09:22]
Two days earlier Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev started his visit to Ujar and Zardab regions.
30 June 2006 [08:55]
The British Council has announced a competition for a study tour for journalists to London, UK, organised within the project of "Raising the Role of the Media in Monitoring Government Programmes".
29 June 2006 [18:43]
During a meeting on energy problems Azeri President Ilham Aliyev instructed the presidents of Azerigas and Azerenergy to take measures to raise the rate of natural gas and electricity bill collection.
29 June 2006 [16:58]
As a part of the judicial reforms in Azerbaijan, preparatory courses for judge candidates selected through progressive and democratic methods are underway. In accordance with the syllabus, foreign experts hold meetings with the judge candidates.
29 June 2006 [09:44]
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched implementation of a two-year program to improve the management of Azerbaijan borders in order to encourage the growth of legal trade and to prevent irregular migration and trans-border crimes such as human trafficking.
29 June 2006 [09:20]
Summer seminar will be conducted in Strasbourg (France) from July 10 to 14 at the initiative of the Council of Europe political affairs body.
29 June 2006 [08:57]
Baku-Jazz festival 2006, lasted more than a week, has been completed.
29 June 2006 [08:51]
Yesterday deliberation on the subject directed to project of Project Harmony organization of the USA, provision of schools with modern information technologies "Coordinating and exchange programs process, achieved success, problems and perspectives" was held in the Ministry of Education.
29 June 2006 [08:31]
Chances of Norwegian education enterprises for cooperation with Azerbaijan University of Languages are being studied.
29 June 2006 [08:04]
The second world forum on human rights will take place in Nantes, France from July 10 to 13, 2006.
28 June 2006 [21:34]
June 27-28 Azerbaijan State Border Service, Special State Security Service, Ministry for emergencies and Defense Ministry held joint trainings on the subject of security services in oil-gas export pipelines and any possible danger to Caspian Sea in Azerbaijan part.
28 June 2006 [15:51]
Structural reforms are expected to be carried out at Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry by the end of this year.
28 June 2006 [14:48]
The representatives of the Azerbaijani Commissioner on Human Rights surveyed several temporary detention centers of police offices and stations.
28 June 2006 [14:24]
2500 sq. meters of area burnt during the fire in the weaving factory named after Ali Bayramov situated in the second floor of a two-storey building in Uzeyir Hajibayov street 13, in Baku June 27.
28 June 2006 [13:33]
One more echelon loaded with military supplies and equipment withdrawn from Russian 62nd military base in Akhalkalak in Georgia have been delivered to Russian military men at the Yalama station at 11:00 a.m today.
28 June 2006 [13:26]
Struggle is on in legal sphere in Hungary Court of Appeal for relieving Ramil Safarov from his sentence.
28 June 2006 [09:20]
Within NATO Science Program, XXI meeting of Virtual Silk Way and opening of II meeting of OCCASION project has been held in Baku.
26 June 2006 [23:03]
Four people from Azerbaijan are the first confirmed cases of bird flu being passed from wild fowl.
26 June 2006 [22:24]
Reporters Without Borders on Monday called on the Azerbaijani authorities to shed light on the way Sakit Mirza Zahidov, a journalist with the opposition daily Azadlig, was arrested.
26 June 2006 [22:15]
Preliminary analysis of the flight-data recorder (FDR) from the Armavia Airbus A320 that crashed into the Black Sea in May has ruled out fuel exhaustion and engine problems as contributing to the accident.
26 June 2006 [20:28]
FIFA has reduced sanctions it imposed on the Turkish soccer association for trouble at a qualifying match, world soccer's ruling body said Saturday.
26 June 2006 [15:43]
Fire broke out next to the Sahil subway station in Uzeyir Hajibayov Street 13 on the second floor of Officers' House on June 26.
26 June 2006 [15:38]
Poetess Rasmiyya Sabir's book "Colorless tears" has been published.
26 June 2006 [15:36]
Azerbaijan Ombudsman Office associates have met with the student of Independent Azerbaijan University (IAU) going on hunger strike.
26 June 2006 [15:34]
Azerbaijani-Slavic World Public Union held an event on 15th jubilee of Slovenia Republic Independence Day.
26 June 2006 [15:31]
In the framework of NATO Science Program, XXI meeting of Virtual Silk Way and opening of II meeting of OCCASION project will be held in Baku on June 27.
26 June 2006 [15:30]
Blood collecting ceremony for meeting demands of patients sick with thalassemia held in Ali-Bayramli at the initiative of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation and Caucasus Muslims Office.
26 June 2006 [15:25]
Premiere of Platwright Nuraddin Gambar's "Headless Body" to take place in Youth Theater on June 29.
26 June 2006 [15:21]
Nizami Region Police Office associates have detained Surakhani resident for passing narcotic drug to prison.
26 June 2006 [15:19]
35 private beaches were closed on June 20 because of ignoring norms of Regulation on use of water reservoirs for rest and sport and warnings of Emergency Situations Ministry.
26 June 2006 [15:17]
100-person staff will arrive in Baku on June 27 to do technical preparations.
26 June 2006 [15:07]
Editor-in-chiefs Union held a meeting in connection with Azadlig newspaper’s correspondent Sakit Zahidov's arrest.
26 June 2006 [01:29]
A son of the chairman of Armenia's KGB, Georgy Badamyants, Russian SB colonel Yuri Badamyants committed suicide on June 21 in Moscow.
24 June 2006 [12:59]
The second regional meeting of education ministers and experts of Islamic countries opened in Isfahan, Islam's cultural capital for 2006, on Saturday.
24 June 2006 [09:07]
Within NATO Science Program, XXI meeting of Virtual Silk Way and opening of II meeting of OCCASION project will be held in Baku June 27.
23 June 2006 [22:04]
Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili has approved the creation of a new national park in the Caucasus Mountains.
23 June 2006 [21:55]
Grandmaster P Harikrishna struck back with a thumping victory over twice world junior champion Shakhriyar Mammadyarov of Azerbaijan in the sixth round of Aerosvit International Grandmasters Chess Tournament now underway in Crimea, Ukraine.
23 June 2006 [16:27]
At least 300 students of the private Azerbaijan International University will not be allowed to sit in final examinations this year due to their documents being in disorder and having academic debts.
23 June 2006 [15:18]
Independent Azerbaijan University students going on hunger strike today have held a press conference.
23 June 2006 [13:20]
The State Commission to Fight Illicit Drugs and Drug Addiction burnt over 100 kg of illicit drugs today.
23 June 2006 [08:47]
"Only Zaghulba, Buzovna and Bilgah beaches meet required sanitation standards at present," Azerbaijani Health Minister Ogtay Shireliyev told journalists.
23 June 2006 [08:32]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev met with the heads of Taekwondo Federation of the Republic, the winner taekwondoists and their coaches.
22 June 2006 [15:39]
Though the state-owned higher schools have not raised tuition fees for this year, some private universities have done it. The authorities of these higher schools explain it by different factors.
22 June 2006 [14:36]
The Belarussian authorities have granted refugee status to 794 people from 13 states, including several Azerbaijanis.
22 June 2006 [14:13]
Today Khatai Region Police Office entered anonym phone call on bomb in Baku Entertainment Center Eliza hall.
22 June 2006 [13:18]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev today attended the opening ceremony of the Central Military Hospital's Surgery Building of Defense Ministry in Jalil Mammadguluzadeh street of Nasimi district in Baku.
22 June 2006 [11:19]
"Armenia has destroyed thousands of pieces of historical and cultural heritage in the occupied Azerbaijani territories," said Associate Prof. Senol Kantarci from the Suleyman Demirel University Department of Ataturk's Principles and History of Turkish Revolution.
22 June 2006 [11:14]
Article by Mohammed A. R. Galadari for UAE's Khaleej Times edition.
22 June 2006 [09:46]
Ministry for Emergency Situations, State Water Rescue System (SWRS) started raiding beaches in Baku and Absheron peninsula yesterday.
22 June 2006 [09:34]
Yesterday Azerbaijan Press Council Language Committee has held a meeting.
22 June 2006 [02:04]
The first vist to Turkey by the head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Catholicos Karekin II, has triggered protests by ultra-nationalist and Islamist Turkish groups.
21 June 2006 [19:30]
Iranian expert names Caspian Sea pollution sources.
21 June 2006 [17:46]
The head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Catholicos Karekin II of All Armenians, has departed for Istanbul.
21 June 2006 [17:18]
On Tuesday, FM Abdullah Gul, currently in Baku attending the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) foreign ministers meeting, paid a visit to the Qafqaz University which is sponsored by Turkish businessmen.
21 June 2006 [17:11]
"There are some forces trying to exert influence on the religion in Azerbaijan. The country should be protected from such influences," UN resident coordinator in Azerbaijan Marco Borzotti said.
21 June 2006 [15:05]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev today received Kazakh prominent poet, scientist, social and political figure Oljas Suleymenov.
21 June 2006 [09:47]
Independent Azerbaijan University (IAU) Students appointed time for the Ministry of Education, finished yesterday.
21 June 2006 [08:52]
The 20 June - previous Africa Refugee Day under the UN General Assembly's December 4, 2004 decision 55/76 is marked as the World Refugee Day now.
21 June 2006 [08:37]
According to UNO General Assembly resolution, 20 June of every year will be marked as World Refugees Day.
Khatai Arts Center opens exhibition timed to Armed Forces Day
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Azerbaijan's Defense Ministry to destroy expired munitions at site near Pir?k??kül village
Azerbaijan urges global community not to remain silent on ongoing humanitarian law violations
Foreign Ministry undergoes structural reform in Azerbaijan
Harutyunyan: Armenian president awarded rank to so-called “defense minister” during occupation