Society
26 May 2006 [10:00]
New detention place will be constructed in Baku, Court Awards Execution Main Office of the Ministry of Justice informs.
26 May 2006 [09:47]
Karabakh Veterans Public Union, chaired by Etimad Asadov has been registered in the Ministry of Justice.
26 May 2006 [09:42]
May 27 Cooperation protocol will be signed between Azerbaijani Youth and Sport Ministry and Georgia Ministry for Culture, Sport and Preserve of Monuments.
26 May 2006 [09:30]
An article by Hilary Leila Krieger about Azerbaijan and Jewish population.
26 May 2006 [09:29]
The Caspian Sea Complex Ecology Monitoring Office of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural resources has started monitoring in coastline of 955 km of the Caspian Sea belonging to Azerbaijan.
26 May 2006 [09:16]
The International Committee of the Red Cross representatives visited Azerbaijani detainee Polad Sirajov, who is held in the US Guantanamo detention camp in Cuba.
26 May 2006 [08:51]
Special forces of Georgian Interior Ministry yeterday conducted operation in Rustavi prison and used physical pressure on Azerbaijani prisoners Gajar Huseynov and Telman Hasanov.
25 May 2006 [23:11]
25 May 2006 [12:30]
BOZENA 4 mine clearance flail machine (B4 MCFM) of the Way Industry company will be delivered to Azerbaijan May 29, according to press service of the Azerbaijan National Agency for Mine Action.
25 May 2006 [12:27]
The Japanese "Fuji Optical" has rendered ophthalmologic assistance to families of the refugees and IDPs in Azerbaijan, as well as the vulnerable people, has distributed eyeglasses to over 1300 people.
25 May 2006 [12:21]
On May 24, in the State Committee on Problems of Family, Women and Children (SCPFWC) took place a meeting of representatives of the state structures and the non-governmental organizations with Noeleen Heyzer, Executive Director of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM).
25 May 2006 [09:00]
President's Office ex-Administrative Office chief, Akif Muradverdiyev's imprisonment term has been prolonged 5 more years.
25 May 2006 [08:30]
The governing football body FIFA has sent 257 tickets to Azerbaijan to watch the World Cup 2006 which is to start in Germany June 9.
24 May 2006 [22:53]
A quick-spreading fire burned down most of the cargo section of Istanbul's Ataturk International Airport on Wednesday, forcing 2,000 workers to flee the thick black smoke that closed one runway to traffic and disrupted flights.
24 May 2006 [22:42]
Historians compare it to Nazi Germany.
24 May 2006 [20:56]
Protesters clashed with police forces in Imam Avenue in Urmiya, Southern Azerbaijan, Iran at 19:00 by Baku time.
24 May 2006 [20:55]
Today at 10.50 in Zazali-Dalimammadli railweay passage, train of 59 empty tank wagons moving in 50 km speed in the direction of Baku has collided with military car range.
24 May 2006 [20:54]
Human-to-human transmission of bird flu has been confirmed in Indonesia. The mutated form of the virus is the danger that scientists expected.
24 May 2006 [18:56]
With regard to beginning spring-summer season, Azerbaijan Health Ministry aimed at prevention of infectious diseases, has held laboratory examinations in Baku beaches.
24 May 2006 [18:49]
"After reading his articles I realized that this man is breathing with the air of 1937. So, Anar has to and is doomed to rule the Writers Union in that air. He has no other choice," said writer Akram Aylisli.
24 May 2006 [13:43]
Azerbaijani residents of Nijniy-Novgorod city, Russia, staged a protest action demanding unbiased investigation of Azerbaijani Mustafa Bakirov' death.
24 May 2006 [10:24]
Head of the Press Council Aflatun Amashov and Head of Azerbaijan Journalists' Union Elchin Shikhli met with Interior Minister Ramil Usubov and Prosecutor-General Zakir Garalov.
24 May 2006 [09:39]
The second flight recorder has been recovered from the site where an Armenian Airbus crashed into the Black Sea May 3, a Russian Transport Ministry official said Wednesday.
24 May 2006 [08:57]
"Effective preventive measures have been held related to the increase of water level in the Kyur River for several days," Azerbaijani Emergency Minister Kamaladdin Heydarov told journalists.
24 May 2006 [08:53]
Mega-star of Turkey, Tarkan will give concert in Republican Stadium named after Tofig Bahram June 30.
24 May 2006 [08:50]
Providing a platform for gender experts and representatives of civil society to present their comments and views on Azerbaijan's first gender law was the aim of a meeting held on May 23 by the OSCE Office in Baku.
23 May 2006 [21:24]
Iran's health minister denied on Tuesday that two siblings had died of bird flu, a day after a medical official said they had tested positive for the virus.
23 May 2006 [16:37]
Azeri national team led by chief coach Alakbar Imamaliyev and coach Gunduz Abdullayev will attend the European Taekwondo Championship to take place May 26-28 in Bonn /Germany/.
23 May 2006 [15:31]
Iran's state radio reports the government today ordered the indefinite closure of one of its newspapers for publishing a cartoon that prompted riots in the country's northwest.
23 May 2006 [14:48]
Construction of the additional two-storied building to the 4-star "Shindan" hotel to be put into operation in Astara region, in August.
23 May 2006 [13:15]
The conference aimed to join efforts of the national news agencies to effectively use information resources.
23 May 2006 [12:48]
Azerbaijan state television news program, Moambe, began broadcasting with simultaneous translation on Monday to Kvemo Kartli, a region principally populated with people of Azerbaijani origin.
23 May 2006 [11:12]
England will be a force at the World Cup even if Wayne Rooney does not recover from a broken foot, Brazil legend Carlos Alberto told BBC Sport.
23 May 2006 [10:45]
Noeleen Heyzer, Executive Director of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), will visit Azerbaijan May 23-27 to discuss future cooperation in implementation of gender priorities under the country's Poverty Reduction Strategy and National Action Plan.
23 May 2006 [10:42]
A conference, "The role of biodiversity in sustainable development in South Caucasus. Azerbaijan: achievements and prospects", started in Baku on Monday.
23 May 2006 [09:29]
Tests in Iran on the bodies of a brother and sister who died after falling ill with pneumonia-like symptoms showed they had the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, an Iranian medical official said.
23 May 2006 [09:25]
On May 22, 59th session of World Health Alliance started its work in Geneva, Switzerland.
23 May 2006 [08:57]
"The education bill should not be drawn up secretly, behind closed doors. It should be submitted to large public discussion," said head of History Institute of Azerbaijan National Academy of Science, MP Yagub Mahmudov.
23 May 2006 [08:49]
Confrontation between Azerbaijanis and local residents in Kharagun village of Chita province, caused injury of 4 Azerbaijani, one of them died at a hospital.
23 May 2006 [08:48]
Head of the Office of Caucasian Muslims (OCM) Sheikulislam Allahshukur Pashzadeh today received a delegation led by Vatican state secretary for relations with states, archbishop Jovanni Layola.
23 May 2006 [08:46]
Azerbaijani detainee of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba Polad Sirajov is being treated in the prison's rehabilitation center.
23 May 2006 [08:37]
"The Office of Caucasian Muslims is not responsible for conducting of an investigation. But we can appeal to relevant organizations for investigation into the recent happening occurred in Mehdiabad district of Baku. I believe the people of this district and perhaps, some negative cases occurred there. We have determined to warn both the imam and akhund (theologian) of the village. We'll punish both of them if they are guilty in these events," head of the Office of Caucasian Muslims, Sheikulislam Haji Allahshukur Pashazadeh told journalists.
23 May 2006 [08:17]
Special working group against corruption established in Education Ministry, working group member Elmir Hasanov has told with regard to execution of the Law "On fight against Corruption" the working group is considered to act permanently.
23 May 2006 [01:49]
The OSCE Minsk Group for the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement proposed to hold a recurrent meeting of the Armenian and Azerbaijani Presidents in Bucharest, June 4-6 within the framework of the "Black Sea for Partnership and Dialogue" summit, Russian mediator Yuri Merzlyakov informed.
23 May 2006 [01:41]
Members of Iran's Azeri minority hurled stones in violent protests on Monday, enraged by a newspaper cartoon they said insulted them, a semi-official news agency and a witness said.
22 May 2006 [20:05]
Emergency teams have recovered one of the two flight recorders from an Airbus that crashed in the Black Sea May 3 with the loss of 113 people, Russia's transportation minister said Monday.
22 May 2006 [19:35]
Dr. Lee Jong-wook, head of the World Health Organization, has died after undergoing emergency surgery for a blood clot in his brain over the weekend, officials said.
22 May 2006 [19:14]
The Azerbaijani Culture and Tourism Ministry has advised Azerbaijan movie theaters to stop showing the movie The Da Vinci Code, the press service of the ministry told Interfax on Monday.
22 May 2006 [13:22]
The Interpol's Azerbaijan bureau has detained in Japan an Azeri charged with a grave crime.
22 May 2006 [08:38]
The Emergency Ministry takes complex measures to prevent forecasted overflow in River Kur. Colonel-General Kamaladdin Heydarov, Emergency Minister, has made visit to Kur streamside, namely to Salyan to see residential areas mostly impacted by flood and the most dangerous points on river-bed with his own eyes.
22 May 2006 [08:10]
Executive Power head of Marneuli region, Amiram Shubitidze and his Deputy issued land certificates for Marneuli residents.
22 May 2006 [07:58]
Azerbaijani students of Zenjan University in Iran, who were protesting against the "Iran" newspaper publicizing caricature insulting Azerbaijanis, today appealed to the official Tehran to break up relations with Armenia.
21 May 2006 [21:30]
Article by Baris Sanli on Eurovision 2006 results.
21 May 2006 [18:08]
Finnish rockers Lordi won the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest late on Saturday, a stunning upset in a competition better known for bland dance music and bubble-gum pop.
21 May 2006 [14:02]
Some people spend a lifetime trying to score a seat in the Knesset. For Israel Beiteinu MK Yosef Shagal, it took barely one month.
20 May 2006 [21:47]
29th international judo tournament in memory of general Hazi Aslanov started May 20.
20 May 2006 [21:45]
Russia's transportation minister, who is leading a government commission on the May 3 crash of an Armenian A-320 airliner, said Saturday he still hoped the plane's flight recorders would be found.
20 May 2006 [20:40]
The United States Embassy in Azerbaijan has announced the 2007-2008 Fulbright Scholarship program.
20 May 2006 [20:37]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev today has sent a message of congratulations to the editorial staff of the local newspaper "Bakinski rabochiy" celebrating its 100 year anniversary.
20 May 2006 [20:15]
The motion of transport will be restricted in Baku from 18.00 on 20 May till 24.00 on May 23 due to the construction of new communication lines in the city.
20 May 2006 [20:08]
But she still has time to win Olympic quota place for Azerbaijan.
20 May 2006 [12:13]
The Head of OSCE Office in Baku today condemned brutal attack on Bahaddin Khaziyev, the Editor-in-Chief of opposition the Bizim Yol (Our Path) newspaper and the Deputy Chairman of Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan.
20 May 2006 [12:01]
Some residents of Mehdiabad village of Baku staged a protest action outside the Taza Pir mosque-headquarters of the Caucasian Muslims Office.
20 May 2006 [12:00]
Ed West in his article "You need friends to win in Eurovision" for Britain's The Daily Telegraph's online edition interferes in the internal affairs of Azerbaijan.
20 May 2006 [11:47]
Ali Abbasov, Communications and Information Technologies Minister, will visit Uzbekistan to attend in 35th Regional Communications Union (RCU) administration chiefs Board Session in Tashkent May, 22-24.
20 May 2006 [11:01]
"It is high time that Azerbaijan to lose in information war. Our not responding to their propaganda has led to hard results. How long will we pursue a policy on responding Armenians attacks? It is already time that we begin to wage on war against them and be the side that attacks", Director of History Institute of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, parliamentarian Yagub Mahmudov told.
20 May 2006 [10:42]
Causes of crash of passenger airplane AN-140-100, Azerbaijan Airlines State Concern, will be soon announced to public.
20 May 2006 [10:36]
Delegation led by Azerbaijani Education Minister Misir Mardanov will pay an official visit to Iran at the invitation of Iranian Minister for Science, Research and Technology Mahammadmehdi Zahed from May 22 to 26.
20 May 2006 [10:29]
The name of Baku Diplomacy University will be changed to Baku Eurasia University.
20 May 2006 [10:26]
Lawyers for Azerbaijani ex-minister for economic development Farhad Aliyev appeal against the decision to prolong his imprisonment term for five more months.
19 May 2006 [19:43]
The editor in chief of an opposition newspaper in Azerbaijan has been attacked and severely beaten up.
19 May 2006 [19:29]
Azerbaijan's Youth and Sport Minister Azad Rahimov held a press conference on the occasion of the 100th day of his appointment to this post today.
19 May 2006 [19:09]
Students from Iranian Azerbaijan province at Tehran University protesting against university authorities as seen in the photos.
19 May 2006 [17:07]
May 19 President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received cellist Yo-Yo Ma, who also is the Artistic Director and Founder of the Silk Road project.
19 May 2006 [14:15]
Match between national football teams of Moldova and Azerbaijan ended in a goalless draw May 18 in Chisinau. The match was seen as a build-up to the European championship qualification matches.
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