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10 March 2007 [15:22]
The second meeting of the Congress of European Azerbaijanis is being held in Baku.
10 March 2007 [15:19]
A feeble earthquake measuring 4.8 on the Richter scale jolted eastern Turkey on Thursday, causing panic but no casualties.
10 March 2007 [15:11]
One man was killed in a brawl between locals and migrants from the Caucasus in northwestern Russian city of Petrozavodsk in the early hours of Friday, local police said.
10 March 2007 [15:01]
Resident of Babi village of Azerbaijani region of Fuzuli, 29 years old Shafaq Jahangirova got burnt in her house.
10 March 2007 [15:00]
Culture and Tourism Ministry Azerbaijan Theater Figures Union held the opening ceremony of "New Theater" festival of young producers devoted to National Theater Day – March 10.
10 March 2007 [14:50]
Baku Mayor's Office has prepared plan of measures on Novruz holiday.
10 March 2007 [14:48]
Donor is being searched for ill-health singer Baloglan Ashrafov who has been taken to Turkey in comatose state.
10 March 2007 [14:45]
Staff reduction is expected in Azerbaijan Television and Radio Programs CJSC.
10 March 2007 [14:42]
Due to inter-governmental contact on education, Azerbaijan's State Students' Admission Commission announced admission to the Universities of Turkey.
10 March 2007 [14:40]
A truck burnt today in front of the National Bank at about 12.30.
10 March 2007 [11:25]
The date of the AFFA Executive Committee meetng has been scheduled, Committee member Mirkamil Rehimov told.
10 March 2007 [10:12]
The newspaper of the Azerbaijan Writer's Union (AWU) "Literature" will be published in Russian once a month, the union press secretary Adalat Askeroglu told.
10 March 2007 [09:57]
Historical-monumental reserve Icharishahar can be removed from UNESCO World Committee on Heritable disorder's list "World monument is under the threat", State Historical-Monumental Reserve Office's chief Kamran Imanov told the journalists.
09 March 2007 [23:18]
"Proposals to house Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy have been submitted to the Cabinet," the rector of the Academy Hafiz Pashayev said.
09 March 2007 [22:56]
Azerbaijani Justice Minister Fikrat Mammadov appointed Alizadeh Huseynov chief of Gobustan jail, Justice Ministry Penitentiary Service told.
09 March 2007 [22:36]
Health Ministry suspended Sahib LLC (Clinics of Khazar University) from March 5.
09 March 2007 [22:29]
Today Appeal was made against Azerbaijan's Court of Grave Crimes' decision on former high-ranking official of Interior Ministry Crime Investigation Department Zakir Nasirov, his lawyer Adil Ismayilov informed.
09 March 2007 [17:41]
"I do not want to comment on all what Ali Insanov said of me. I presented materials to the investigation about Ali Insanov in 2004. He could be arrested because of those documents too," the chief of State Students' Admission Commission Maleyka Abbaszade told.
09 March 2007 [15:24]
Though Ramil Safarov, the officer of Azerbaijani Armed Forces was transferred to the detention place a few days ago, he was again taken to the investigation ward, the officer's father Sahib Safarov told.
09 March 2007 [13:35]
Azerbaijan Labor and Social Protection Ministry has worked out the First-ever Social Rehabilitation Program for families in low income.
09 March 2007 [13:03]
The temperature will rise in Azerbaijani regions on March 10 and 11, Azerbaijan's Ecology and Tourism Ministry National Hydrometeorological Department Forecasting bureau told.
09 March 2007 [11:39]
Iran plans to convert old residential estates of well-known public figures into museums in East Azerbaijan Province, northwest of Iran.
09 March 2007 [11:25]
The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by a death threat against an editor in the capital Baku, four days after he reported that high-ranking officials there ordered the murder of his colleague Elmar Huseynov.
09 March 2007 [11:22]
Questions asked about whether bullying in the Azerbaijani army prompted three soldiers to cross the front line.
08 March 2007 [12:24]
The Youth Medical Care organization must be established, the Health Ministry representative Faiza Aliyeva said at the meeting focused on Reproductive initiative Health of Youth in the South Caucasus.
08 March 2007 [12:23]
Youth Palace will be built in Azerbaijan, Youth and Sport Minister Azad Rahimov said.
08 March 2007 [12:03]
Parliamentary Meeting on reproductive health problems in South Caucasus is being held in Baku.
08 March 2007 [11:48]
Representatives of World Health Organization (WHO) will visit Ganja on March 10-12.
08 March 2007 [11:47]
The chief of the State Committee against Tortures Elchin Behbudov will monitor Gobustan jail in a few days.
08 March 2007 [11:43]
Large arsenal was found in Goranboy.
08 March 2007 [11:41]
State Students' Admission Commissions (SSAC) appealed to the Parliamentary Commission for Science and Education Issues to indicate the duties of the commission in Draft Law on Education.
08 March 2007 [11:39]
Hajikand woods of Ganja is to be reforested, the mayor of Ganja Eldar Azizov said.
08 March 2007 [11:28]
The delegation of the Republic of Latvia will arrive in Baku on Thursday.
07 March 2007 [23:10]
Today trial on case of former Health Minister Ali Insanov and ten more defendants accused of embezzlement, abuse of power and bribery continued in the second part of the day at Azerbaijan's Court of Grave Crimes.
07 March 2007 [23:03]
A number of journalists visited one of the military units of Interior Troops in Baku garrison.
07 March 2007 [22:37]
Azerbaijan's Court of Grave Crimes presided over by judge Gadim Babayev held the trial of the officer of Defense Ministry, Capitan Elchin Samadov.
07 March 2007 [22:09]
March 6 Ganja resident Ilham Gazanfar Meghdiyev (1977) burnt himself in 9, Israfil Mammadov Street, the investigator of Ganja Prosecutor's Office Igbal Tagiyev told.
07 March 2007 [22:05]
The temperature will rise gradually from tomorrow till March 12 in Azerbaijani region.
07 March 2007 [21:58]
Police garrison of Baku Main Police Office (BMPO) will be on alert from March 7 to 11 on the occasion of Forum I of Azerbaijani and Turkish Diaspora Organizations, deputy chief of BMPO Yashar Aliyev told.
07 March 2007 [17:21]
Reconstruction of the Azerbaijani parliament will finish until May 10.
07 March 2007 [15:56]
Technical problems in ANS TV broadcasts have not been removed completely, Mais Mammadov, the advisor of the President of ANS Group of Companies told.
07 March 2007 [15:24]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev congratulated Azerbaijani women on 8th of March - International Women's Day.
07 March 2007 [15:17]
Today trial on case of former Health Minister Ali Insanov and ten more defendants accused of embezzlement, abuse of power and bribery continued at Azerbaijan's Court of Grave Crimes.
07 March 2007 [14:29]
"State Student Admission Commission may not announce additional admission to high schools. But as there are vacancies during the admission, they ask us to announce the vacancies," commenting on Education Minister Misir Mardanov's statement that the addition admission is wrong, the Chief of the State Student Admission Commission Maleyka Abbaszadeh told.
07 March 2007 [13:01]
Azerbaijani national football squad has won first match in Alma-TV Cup in Shymkent, Kazakhstan.
07 March 2007 [12:20]
Murder happened in newly-built house in the village of Kohne Chudat of Khachmaz region.
07 March 2007 [09:28]
Soldier of Azerbaijani Armed Forces Eldeniz Nuriyev, who was captured on December 21 of last year by Armenians, at present, is being kept in Bayil Detention ward #1 of Justice Ministry's Penitentiary Service.
07 March 2007 [09:26]
Accident happened in the newly constructed building Goychay.
07 March 2007 [09:23]
European Cultural Heritage Week will be held for the first time in September, 2008 in Baku, Azerbaijan’s Culture and Tourism Minister Abulfaz Garayev said.
07 March 2007 [09:20]
The second Azerbaijani school will be opened in Great Britain on April 22, representative of "Kaspian-Khazri" Diaspora organization, the director of the first Azerbaijani school in Britain Sevinj Baloglanova told.
07 March 2007 [09:13]
Azerbaijani national archery team will not participate in the World Cup to take place on March 17 in Izmir, Turkey.
07 March 2007 [09:07]
Unofficial opening ceremony of St. Maria Catholic Church constructed in Baku will be held in late April, chief of the church Yan Chapla told.
07 March 2007 [08:48]
Azerbaijani national women's lawn hockey team played next friendly in Guanchjou, China.
07 March 2007 [08:44]
Reconstruction in Azerbaijani State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre will not start soon, The Culture and Tourism Minister Abulfaz Garayev told journalists.
07 March 2007 [08:41]
40 Azerbaijani fans will see the final match of UEFA Champions League to take place on May 23 in Olimpic stadium in Athens, Greece.
07 March 2007 [08:14]
Azerbaijan's Education Minister Misir Mardanov received World Bank senior education specialist Rosita Van Meel, country manager Gregory Jedrzejczak and senior education specialist Juan Manuel Moreno.
07 March 2007 [07:59]
Culture Law will be amended soon, the chairman of Parliament’s Commission for Cultural Issues, MP Nizami Jafarov said.
06 March 2007 [23:16]
President Ilham Aliyev issued executive order to better activities on museum in Azerbaijan, President's Office press service told.
06 March 2007 [22:56]
Murder happened in Gobustan jail yesterday, Garadagh district Prosecutor Tariyel Gurbanov told.
06 March 2007 [17:54]
Murder occurred in Military Unit of Azerbaijan's Defense Ministry on Monday.
06 March 2007 [17:51]
Chairman of the Commission for State Service at President Bahram Khalilov and secretary of the Commission to Combat Corruption at State Service Management Council Inam Kerimov held a press conference.
06 March 2007 [17:02]
Today trial on case of former Health Minister Ali Insanov and ten more defendants accused of embezzlement, abuse of power and bribery continued at Azerbaijan's Court of Grave Crimes.
06 March 2007 [16:18]
President of Moscow State University Viktor Sadonovich will pay visit to Azerbaijan, Russian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Vasili Istratov stated today.
06 March 2007 [15:02]
On Tuesday Azerbaijan's Culture and Tourism Minister Abulfez Garayev has met with cultural workers in Academic Drama Theatre on implementation of President’s Executive order on development of theatre in Azerbaijan.
06 March 2007 [14:36]
Azerbaijan's Press Council appealed to the National Security Ministry.
06 March 2007 [13:46]
ANS TV's transmission stopped due to the fail of the main transmitter from 08.00 on Tuesday.
06 March 2007 [12:39]
"Azerbaijani national squad participetes in European championship which involves best teams of the world. It is not bad to face Eorpean championship representative second time in last month in Alma TV Cup tournament.
06 March 2007 [07:35]
The rector of the Baku Music Academy Farhad Badalbeyli, the national artist Azer Zeynalov and the honored artist Gulnaz Ismayilova will pay a visit to the US, Farhad Badalbeyli told.
06 March 2007 [07:20]
The results of exams for the Bar were released on March 4, Azerbaijan's Bar Association told.
06 March 2007 [07:10]
According to the decision of the Cabinet of Ministers, March 20 -26 are non-working days, Cabinet of Ministers press service chief Akif Ali told.
06 March 2007 [00:24]
Turgay Bairamov who was accused of helping to the assassinators of Elmar Huseynov, the editor-in-chief of "Monitor" journal, to make false documents and sentenced to two years will be released March 26, Penitentiary Service told.
05 March 2007 [23:10]
President Ilham Aliyev got acquainted with the project of reconstruction of Heydar Aliyev Palace, President’s press service told.
05 March 2007 [17:42]
Unstable weather, rain, sleet and snow is forecast in Azerbaijani territory beginning from tomorrow, Azerbaijan's Ecology and Tourism Ministry National Hydrometeorology Department forecasting bureau chief Umbra Tagiyeva inform.
05 March 2007 [16:59]
The legal procedure of Akif Muradverdiyev, former officer of President's Office finished, the court stated.
05 March 2007 [16:10]
The trial of two Azerbaijani journalists accused of inciting religious hatred with an article that criticized Islam was postponed for a second time Monday by a judge who ordered a change of venue.
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