Society
06 April 2006 [22:31]
Education is a priority of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, the Foundation's President, UNESCO Good Will Ambassador, MP Mehriban Aliyeva told at the roundtable discussions dedicated to the second stage of the "New schools to new Azerbaijan" program.
06 April 2006 [16:40]
The World Health Organization (WHO) General Director, Lee Jong-wook arrives to Baku with work visit, the Health Ministry press service head Samaya Mammedova informs.
06 April 2006 [15:31]
The Azerbaijan National Municipal Association (NMA) might play an important role in social-economic development of regions, therefore, strategy with the regard of each region specifics has to be prepared, the EC consultant on the post-conflict issues, Owen Martins told at the third meeting of the work group for the National Municipal Association (NMA) creation.
06 April 2006 [11:36]
The International Committee of the Red Cross will thoroughly address the plight of Azerbaijani captives and missing persons, its president Jacob Kellenberger said during his recent meeting with refugees in the country's Sabirabad and Bilasuvar districts.
06 April 2006 [10:25]
The meeting of the taskforce on political prisoners set up jointly by the authorities and human rights campaigners concluded on Wednesday without achieving major results.
06 April 2006 [10:20]
Armenian separatists are trying to turn Azerbaijan's ancient town of Shusha into their own "cultural center" and plan to carry out this outrageous plan by holding an electronic referendum.
06 April 2006 [09:52]
A delegation of Hungarian media representatives have arrived in Azerbaijan to familiarize with the country.
06 April 2006 [09:12]
On April 6, 2006, Mr.Fizuli Alekperov, Minister of Labour and Social Protection of Population, and Ms.Anne-Birgitte Albrectsen, the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) Country Director for Azerbaijan will officially open the Training and Research Center in Population and demography in Baku.
06 April 2006 [09:06]
Azerbaijan's Education Ministry will launch attestation of school teachers soon, Education Minister Misir Mardanov told journalists.
06 April 2006 [08:49]
Moscow police is searching for two men and a woman related to assaulting of Azerbaijani journalist working for Russia's NTV channel Elkhan Mirzoyev.
06 April 2006 [08:46]
The World Health Organization (WHO) experts recommended Azerbaijan to keep epidemiological surveillance for three or four more months for precautions against bird flu outbreak.
06 April 2006 [08:34]
Trial of Azerbaijani Army officer Ramil Safarov, who is indicted for murder of Armenian officer Gurgen Margaryan, in Budapest brought together Azerbaijani students, Turks living in Hungary as well as many media representatives.
06 April 2006 [08:24]
Azercell Telecom Joint Enterprise donated Azerbaijani famous composer Gara Garayev's piano to the National Conservatoire of Azerbaijan.
05 April 2006 [20:38]
Ilham Aliyev, the Azerbaijani President, has been announced the Grand-Prix laureate of the Caspian Energy Integration Award – 2006 in the main nomination "The Politician of the Year in CIS and Baltic Countries".
05 April 2006 [20:34]
The complex work aimed at the struggle with bird flu continues in Azerbaijan.
05 April 2006 [17:07]
Iran protests to Azerbaijan's "claim" to introduce "Sharyar" and "Nizami Ganjavi" as Azerbaijani poets.
05 April 2006 [15:25]
The Turkish students at the Azerbaijan State Pedagogical University (ASPU) will be transferred to other universities.
05 April 2006 [15:16]
A forum of Azerbaijani students of Europe will be held in the building of the European Parliament in Brussels on 29 May.
05 April 2006 [15:09]
The Azerbaijani Health Ministry has sent tests of 43 people with bird flu suspicion to the London laboratory for more exact diagnosis.
05 April 2006 [10:27]
Process of Azerbaijani Army Officer Ramil Safarov's trial, who was accused in killing Armenian officer Gurgen Margarian, was continued.
05 April 2006 [10:12]
Workshop on studying Korean experience in the field of information technologies started in the Baku Regional Training Centre of the World Customs Organization (WCO) yesterday.
05 April 2006 [08:24]
Religious Belief and Freedom of Conscience Defense Center (RBFCDC) Caucasus Department leader Azer Ramizoghlu has been imprisoned in Tbilisi, the organization Chairman Ilgar Ibrahimoghlu informs.
05 April 2006 [07:53]
Eight video cameras have been installed in central streets of Baku to prevent traffic jams and road accidents.
05 April 2006 [07:46]
The delegates of Greek State Building Company visited Azerbaijani region of Zagatala today.
05 April 2006 [07:33]
The local departments of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of Population in Baku, Ganja, Sumgait, Naftalan, Mingechevir, Ali Bayramli cities will receive appeals by citizens wishing to obtain targeted social assistance from April 15.
04 April 2006 [21:26]
UEFA has offered to help settle a dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which have unable to agree on a match venue for their Euro 2008 qualifiers.
04 April 2006 [16:04]
On Monday Ogtay Shiraliyev considered the complaints of thalassemia-diseased people and said over the last 4 months the treatment of these patients was carried out unofficially i.e. by humanitarian way.
04 April 2006 [15:37]
Head coach Shahin Diniyev has announced the names of players who will play in the game with Turkish national team on April 12.
04 April 2006 [15:19]
As of January 1, 2006, 1,050 complaints were received by the European Court on Human Rights from Azerbaijan, MP Rabiyat Aslanova, the Chairman of the Milli Majlis Permanent Commission on Human Rights, informs.
04 April 2006 [14:52]
The National TV Broadcasting Council (NTBC) issued licenses to regional TV channels Khayal, Guba, and Alternativ, Ganja Nushiravan Maharramli, the Chair of NTBC, informed.
04 April 2006 [09:53]
About 70 patients with thalassemia disease and parents who have children sick with thalassemia have placed an action in front of Health Ministry.
04 April 2006 [09:44]
Free treatment of prisoners affected by complicated form of tuberculosis will be launched from July 1.
04 April 2006 [08:58]
Today Court process of Ramil Safarov - Azerbaijani Army Officer, who was accused in killing Armenian Gurgen Margarian, will be held in the capital of Hungary Budapest.
04 April 2006 [02:26]
None of the candidates to positions in the State Committee for Management of Public Property could score minimal points in the examinations that were conducted by the State Students Admission Commission (SSAC) on 1 April.
04 April 2006 [01:51]
The draft law "On Education" has not been presented to us so far neither in official nor in un-official form.
03 April 2006 [20:08]
Opening of "Good Morning, Children!" international foundation in Baku has been announced on Monday.
03 April 2006 [15:56]
The international conference on participation of the Georgian art institutes in the Bologna process started in the Rustaveli Theatre in Tbilisi on Monday.
03 April 2006 [15:18]
Jacob Kellenberger, the chair of the Red Cross, who has arrived in Azerbaijan with 2-day visit on Monday, met with Oktay Shiraliyev, the Azerbaijani Health Minister.
03 April 2006 [15:12]
A seminar for the Azerbaijani mass media leadership is due to take place in the Novhani village near Baku on April 8-9.
03 April 2006 [14:40]
A Russia's NTV channel producer says he was beaten up in a racist attack on the Moscow metro - the second suspected race crime within a few days.
03 April 2006 [14:26]
The next action of the Congress of Azerbaijanis from around the World will be held in Saint-Petersburg in May, the press–service Head, Ali Nijat informs.
03 April 2006 [13:01]
The FIDE published new rating list.
03 April 2006 [12:50]
The population of Azerbaijan's region of Lenkeran is facing serious problems in electricity supply. The electricity supply is often cut off in the region.
03 April 2006 [12:26]
Azerbaijani State Student Admission Commission (SSAC) will organize testing exams for school-graduates intending to continue their education in higher schools, from April 3 to June 25.
03 April 2006 [11:56]
Jakob Kellenberger, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), has arrived in Azerbaijan for a two-day visit at the invitation of the Azerbaijani government.
03 April 2006 [11:36]
Azerbaijan's Interior Ministry (IM) Main Office for Fighting Organized Crimes officers detained a car hijacker who is Georgian citizen.
03 April 2006 [10:59]
A monument to Khoja Nasreddin (the tale hero of numerous nations) was erected in the capital of Russia. Opening of the monument took place in the Yartsev Street of Moscow on April 1.
03 April 2006 [09:42]
Azerbaijani Minister of Education Misir Mardanov met President of the European Association for Education Law and Policy Ian de Groff.
03 April 2006 [08:29]
As a result of investigation measures conducted by the Ministry of National Security (MNS) of Azerbaijan, a group illegally transporting drugs through Iran-Azerbaijan-Russia-Japan route was revealed and several members were neutralized.
01 April 2006 [15:23]
Three killer quakes, ranging between 4.7 and six degrees on the Richter scale, have claimed the lives of dozens and injured above 850 others so far, inflicting heavy damage on provincial cities of Dorud and Borujerd late Thursday.
01 April 2006 [10:07]
From 100 thousand to 2 million people from CIS countries illegally migrate to Moscow every year.
01 April 2006 [09:02]
The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources offered the World Bank to fund a project on planting forest in 6 thousand hectares of territory.
01 April 2006 [08:59]
The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources is developing large-scale programs on purification of oil-polluted areas.
01 April 2006 [08:40]
Only four dead birds were found in the seashore last week. The Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry informs that no wild bird died in state nature reserves last week.
01 April 2006 [01:31]
"The 29 March total solar eclipse did not cause any seismological activeness in Azerbaijan," the Head of Republic Seismological Service Center of National Academy of Science, Arif Hasanov stated.
01 April 2006 [00:56]
The internet action has started. The action has been organized by the Azerbaijani Youth and Sports Ministry with the participation of the all-republic youth movement "Forward".
01 April 2006 [00:51]
To control observation of the Azerbaijan Republic law on "Information gathering", a new State body will be created - Ombudsmen Informational Institute, the Press Council announced.
01 April 2006 [00:35]
The Azerbaijani Education Ministry and OSCE started the realization of the joint program "Educational program on human rights", the Ministry informs.
31 March 2006 [13:50]
The Azerbaijani government has transferred $20,000 to the budget of the new established UN Central Fund of Emergencies, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry announced.
31 March 2006 [12:25]
Today Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev visited monument of Azerbaijani genocide victims. Flowers were put at the memorial and prayers were given.
31 March 2006 [10:03]
The Azerbaijani government must ensure a fair trial for three opposition youth leaders whose trial begins today in Baku, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday.
31 March 2006 [09:54]
More than 50 foreign citizens from Chechnya, Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine and other countries who settled in Azerbaijan have been given refugee status.
31 March 2006 [09:18]
Russian Defense Ministry representative Vasili Smirnov stated that Azerbaijanis also serve in the Russian Army.
31 March 2006 [08:58]
Three-day symposium on "Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Development" held in Baku under the preparation for the 14th meeting of the UN Commission for Sustainable Development completed yesterday.
31 March 2006 [08:40]
Azerbaijan National AIDS Center supported by the UN Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria will launch treatment of HIV/AIDS for the first time in the country.
31 March 2006 [08:27]
Two Baku buildings will be taken to provide servicemen of Azerbaijani Defense Ministry with apartments.
30 March 2006 [23:48]
On Thursday Ilham Aliyev, the Azerbaijani President, signed decree on increase of basic labor pension.
30 March 2006 [17:31]
Local scientists have found a strain of bird flu in a 16-year-old girl from a family in Azerbaijan which has lost three members to the H5N1 virus, Deputy Health Minister Abbas Velibeyov said on Thursday.
30 March 2006 [14:40]
The Azerbaijani Ministry's Center for Innovation and Procurement will open a special lab to expose the low-quality and fake medicines, the Health Minister, Oktay Shiraliyev told.
30 March 2006 [14:29]
The International Committee of the Red Cross (IRCR) President, Jakob Kellenberger will pay 2-day visit to Baku April 3-4. The IRCR President was invited to Baku by the Azerbaijani government, however, it will be a regional visit as well.
30 March 2006 [13:29]
The Caucasus Muslims Administration Chairman, Sheikh of Islam, Allahshukur Pashazadeh will pay a visit to Saudi Arabia, the Caucasus Muslims Administration informs.
30 March 2006 [13:18]
The world community still remains indifferent towards the terror in the Azerbaijani territory under the Armenian occupation, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources stated.
30 March 2006 [13:01]
The relations between the Azeri authorities and opposition have reached the "hostility" level, half of the participants in a recent survey said.
30 March 2006 [11:42]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed a decree on injecting some changes and supplements in some legislative acts in connection with the application of the Law on TV and Radio Broadcasting.
30 March 2006 [10:16]
Conference in commemoration of the 31 March - Day of Genocide of Azerbaijanis was organized by "Ireli"( Forward) Republic Youth Movement and students of the Baku State University.
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