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09 May 2007 [12:13]
The meeting held in Nijni Novgorod by Azerbaijan Diaspora brought together Azerbaijanis living there.
09 May 2007 [12:10]
Azerbaijani Education Minister Misir Mardanov is scheduled to visit London on May 17, Minister told the journalists.
09 May 2007 [11:46]
The event is dedicated to the Azerbaijan's late President Heydar Aliyev and is taking place from May 2nd to 12th.
08 May 2007 [16:48]
Ex-health Minister Ali Insanov brought an action against Presidium of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS) in protest against his dismissal from full membership of the academy.
08 May 2007 [16:37]
Spanish newspaper La Opinion based in Los Angeles published three articles about Azerbaijan for the first time. The author of the articles, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Gabriel Larner prepared his articles during his visit to Baku.
08 May 2007 [15:45]
The trial on Zabit Kazimov and Parviz Mammadov accused of murder of Ganja traffic police chief Ikram Khalilov was held in the Grievous Crimes Court under the chairmanship of judge Imamali Asgarov.
08 May 2007 [15:42]
The number of registered refugees in Azerbaijan has decreased.
08 May 2007 [15:39]
Economic growth in Azerbaijan causes migration of foreign nationals to our country.
08 May 2007 [13:27]
Azerbaijan's Court of Appeal today held a preparatory legal proceeding with regard to the appeal against the verdict on Haji Mammadov, gang leader, former official of Crime Investigation Department of Interior Ministry and other members of the gang, who face charges of brutal manslaughters, kidnapping and other serious crimes.
08 May 2007 [13:23]
Armenian delegation members have anveiled the details of the meeting in Baku on May 4.
08 May 2007 [11:44]
Nijni Novgorod leadership is pleased by the activity of Azerbaijanis of this city, counsellor of Azerbaijani Embassy in Russia Bakish Zeynalov told journalists during the event of Azerbaijan Diaspora in Nijni Novgorod.
08 May 2007 [09:45]
Tender has been announced for reconstructions in Azerbaijan State Culture and Art University.
08 May 2007 [09:42]
Three-day international conference "Caspian dialogue-2" started in Baku on Monday.
08 May 2007 [09:36]
Flower festival on the then President of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev's 84th birthday will be held in Baku national park.
08 May 2007 [09:32]
National Action Plan has been prepared as a result of the first national conference on problems of children with special care needs (handicapped children) organized by the State Committee on Family, Women and Children Affairs, Azerbaijan NGO Alliance on Children's Rights, USAID, Save the Children and UNICEF.
08 May 2007 [08:07]
Editor of Gundelik Azerbaijan newspaper Uzeyir Jafarov, who underwent assault by unidentified men, appealed to Prosecutor General Zakir Garalov fwith regard to the delay of the investigation into the case on assault.
08 May 2007 [08:06]
Chief of the Committee against Torture Elchin Behbudov met with Mirza Sakit, correspondent of Azadlig newspaper.
08 May 2007 [08:02]
Azerbaijan's Court of Appeals presided over by judge Shahin Yusifov will hold on Tuesday preliminary proceeding of case on the appeals of criminal gang led by Haji Mammadov, former high ranking official of the Interior Ministry Crime Investigation Department, against the decision of Azerbaijani Court of Grave Crimes.
08 May 2007 [07:59]
Concert programme is to be held in London with honored artist Aygun Baylar's participation on May 20 in London.
07 May 2007 [22:52]
Baku Main Police Office's State Traffic Police Office (STPO) will move into a new building on May 10.
07 May 2007 [22:49]
Azerbaijani soldier Yehya Agayev, who drafted to military service 20 days ago, died.
07 May 2007 [22:29]
Writer Nuride Atashi's book "Struggle for Karabakh" was published in Germany on the initiative of the Nizami Ganjavi Cultural Institution in Berlin, Germany.
07 May 2007 [22:21]
Haji Allahshukur Pashazade, head of Caucasian Muslims Office visited newly-found mass graves in Guba last month.
07 May 2007 [22:13]
Chief of the State Committee for Religious Communities Hidayat Orujov met with religious men and region public representatives during his visit to Guba.
07 May 2007 [22:11]
State Border Service's (SBS) officials arrested 30 persons, who attempted to pass Azerbaijan State Border illegally.
07 May 2007 [22:04]
Officials in Kazakhstan believe warm weather and not nearby oil fields caused the deaths of 885 seals, most of them babies, since the end of March.
07 May 2007 [16:04]
The temperature will be close to climate norm in May in Azerbaijan.
07 May 2007 [15:15]
The planned debate of the report on the situation in the South Caucasus at the spring session of NATO Parliamentary Assembly has been postponed, vice-speaker of Azerbaijani parliament Ziyafat Askerov said.
07 May 2007 [09:48]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev staying in Cairo on an official visit met with Grand Sheikh of the world largest Islamic University Dr. Muhammad Sayid Tantawy.
07 May 2007 [09:38]
Servicemen killed in the WW2 years have been commemorated with a minute of silence in Azerbaijan.
07 May 2007 [09:14]
An independent United Nations human rights expert has voiced concern about press freedom in Azerbaijan while reporting that his recent meetings there offered hope that court decisions which have caused a prevailing sense of fear among journalists will be reviewed.
07 May 2007 [08:21]
More than twenty journalists from different Azerbaijani media outlets took part in a seminar on court and crime reporting organized by the OSCE Office in Baku on Friday.
07 May 2007 [07:42]
Unidentified assailants beat two men from Tajikistan to death and injured another in what Moscow prosecutors believe may have been a hate attack, Russian news agencies reported Sunday.
05 May 2007 [13:28]
On May 4, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev visited the newly reconstructed Green Theater.
05 May 2007 [13:21]
The isolators will be built in Ali Bayramli and Khurdakhani, said Justice Ministry Penitentiary Service chief Nazim Alakbarov.
05 May 2007 [13:13]
The level of Kur River is to fall due to the nonsludging weather in Georgia and Azerbaijan.
05 May 2007 [13:05]
World Bank and Education Ministry will sign one more agreement on the development of education.
05 May 2007 [13:03]
Chief of the State Committee for Religious Communities Hidayat Orujov and Sheikh-ul-Islam Hajji Allahshukur Pashazade, chairman of the Caucasian Muslims Office will visit northern Azerbaijani regions soon.
05 May 2007 [13:02]
State Veterinary Service under Agriculture Ministry announced the results of bird flu monitoring held on April 23-27.
05 May 2007 [12:58]
Stable weather forecasted in Azerbaijan in the nearest days, deputy director of National Hydrometeorological Department of Ecology and Tourism Ministry Umayra Tagiyeva told.
05 May 2007 [12:56]
Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry announced competition among journalists on the best articles, television report on ecological theme on June 5 - World Environment Day aiming to protect environment, natural resources, preserve biodiversity, raise public awareness.
05 May 2007 [12:44]
Azerbaijani President issued an executive order on the financial aid to the participants of World War II, widows of fallen soldiers and workers of home front during wartime.
05 May 2007 [12:32]
German-Azerbaijan society will mark the 70th anniversary of the novel "Ali and Nino" in Baku on September 28-29.
05 May 2007 [12:30]
25-year-old Georgian citizen Ramin Alakbarov wanted by Dmanisi Police has been detained in Baku under article 178 (robbery) of the Criminal Code of Georgia.
05 May 2007 [12:29]
Defense Ministry web-site is being prepared.
05 May 2007 [11:44]
"Azerbaijani cultural heritage list is being analyzed. The working group composed of Culture and Tourism Ministry representatives visit the regions every week to study the archaeological excavations and the monuments in the list and also those which are not in the list," Minister Abulfas Garayev told journalists.
05 May 2007 [11:43]
The appeal of the editor of Gundelik Azerbaijan newspaper Uzeyir Jafarov, who was injured as a result of assault on April 20 to prosecutor General Zakir Garalov on transferring the criminal case from Yasamal police department to prosecutor's bodies, can be granted.
04 May 2007 [16:43]
A new district for internally displaced persons has been opened in Ramana settlement of Sabunchu, Baku. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev participated in the opening of the district.
04 May 2007 [16:28]
Azerbaijani junior taekwondo team has returned to the country after training camp in Tehran, Iran.
04 May 2007 [16:27]
A court in Baku has sentenced two journalists to jail terms for insulting Islam.
04 May 2007 [13:56]
We are going to struggle in European championship to gain higher ranks, stated Rauf Bunyadeliyev, president of Azerbaijan Bodybuilding Federation.
04 May 2007 [13:55]
Two men arrested on the incident occurred while the process of puling down meat shops in Yeni Yasamal district of Baku.
04 May 2007 [13:53]
Azerbaijani pro boxer gained victory in boxing evening organized by Colosseum Box Promotions in St. Petersburg, Russia.
04 May 2007 [13:46]
The trial on appeal of former chief of Nizami district police office Mushfig Medetov and two more prisoners ended in the Supreme Court.
04 May 2007 [13:44]
"We are not afraid of match against Armenia," said Azeri U-17 head coach Yashar Vahabzade.
04 May 2007 [13:41]
Azerbaijan's Public Television will broadcast live Eurovision-2007 song contest to be held in the Finnish capital of Helsinki.
04 May 2007 [12:57]
Azerbaijani U-17 squad will play against Armenian team in 1st Black Sea Games on July 5.
04 May 2007 [12:54]
An early morning fire in a psychiatric hospital in southern Russia Friday killed three people and injured 12 others, officials said, while a gas explosion in another part of the country killed five people in an apartment house.
04 May 2007 [12:40]
"I am pleased to be in Baku. I have travelled 130 countries. It is my third visit to Azerbaijan. I have warm relations with friends in this country," International and European Bodybuilding Federation (IFBB, EFBB) president Rafael Santonja stated today at the press conference.
04 May 2007 [11:42]
Aghali Alishov who received a bullet wound during the incident at the Peoples' Friendship University in Moscow, is to be released from hospital in a week.
04 May 2007 [11:22]
UM WELT FILM leadership, producer Ralf Marshallek and poetess Nuride Ateshi, director of the Nizami Ganjavi Azerbaijani Culture Institute in Germany signed a contract on cooperation in the film "Mahammad Asad Bey."
04 May 2007 [11:14]
2012 European junior and adult karate championship will be held Baku.
04 May 2007 [09:27]
Azerbaijan Delegation will also participate in the 6th meeting of the Steering Committee for Culture of the Council of Europe (CDCULT) scheduled for May 9-11 in Strasbourg.
03 May 2007 [18:20]
Chief of Azerbaijani Committee against Torture Elchin Behbudov met with former Health Minister Ali Insanov and editor-in-chief of Gundalik Azerbaijan newspaper Eynulla Fetullayev in Bayil detention place #1, the committee chief told.
03 May 2007 [17:56]
Azerbaijani journalists held a picket in front of Yasamal cemetery, where Elmar Huseynov, assassinated editor-in-chief of Monitor journal was buried, to mark 3 May-World Press Freedom Day.
03 May 2007 [16:49]
Volgograd security agencies detained a female passenger of a Tupolev-134 passenger jet who had threatened to set off an explosive device while the plane heading for Volgograd was still in midair.
03 May 2007 [16:13]
The prisoners going on hunger strike in Gubustan Jail break the regime rules.
03 May 2007 [13:24]
Perched high on a cliff side in the remote borderlands of eastern Georgia, the ancient Davit Gareji monastery hardly seems the kind of place that could be at the center of a modern-day diplomatic dispute.
03 May 2007 [11:59]
German embassy in Azerbaijan announced for applications to "International Parliament Scholarship" (IPS) program of German Bundestag.
03 May 2007 [09:54]
Norwegian center has been opened in Azerbaijan State University of Languages.
03 May 2007 [09:52]
The 10 countries where the Committee to Protect Journalists says press freedoms have most deteriorated over the last five years.
03 May 2007 [09:48]
Azerbaijani Education Minister Misir Mardanov will leave for Turkey.
03 May 2007 [09:43]
Editor of Gundelik Azerbaijan newspaper Uzeyir Jafarov, injured as a result of assault on April 20 appealed to Prosecutor General Zakir Garalov on transferring the criminal case from Yasamal police department to prosecutor’s bodies, the editor told.
03 May 2007 [09:29]
The villagers of the Salyan region used to make a living hunting ducks and geese that live in the lush wetlands. But since February 2006, when there was an outbreak of avian influenza in Azerbaijan and seven people died, a hunting ban has been in place.
03 May 2007 [09:17]
Azerbaijan's Court of Appeals presided over by Judge Ramella Allahverdiyeva kept the decision of court of grave crimes on attackers to to Zumrud and Markiz jewelry shops – Khosrov and Nasir Efendiyevs, Elbrus Mammadov, Elyar Salahov and Ilgar Mammadov in force.
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