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09 September 2009 [08:34]
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Miklos Haraszti made presentation of his book "Self-regulation of Media" in Azerbaijani on Sept. 8.
08 September 2009 [15:54]
Employees of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Emergency Situations are participating in NATO exercises.
08 September 2009 [14:57]
“Azerbaijani Cabinet of Ministers has been tasked with solving the problem of age qualification of educational employees," Azerbaijani education Minister Misir Mardanov said.
08 September 2009 [13:27]
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development said in a report published Monday that the U.S. dollar should be replaced as the world’s standard reserve currency, giving rise to a new global currency managed by an as-yet undetermined financial regulatory organization.
08 September 2009 [13:12]
The Azerbaijani Education Minister has promised advances in ensuring safety in educational institutions.
08 September 2009 [12:58]
A total of 13 military men, including the crew, were on board the MI-8 helicopter of the Kazakh Committee for National Security's Border Guard which crashed in Kazakhstan, the Kazakh Committee for National Security said, Interfax reports.
08 September 2009 [12:34]
Azerbaijan National Agency for Mine Action (ANAMA) demined 2,618,950 square meters of area from mines and explosives in Azerbaijan in Aug. 2009, ANAMA press office said.
08 September 2009 [12:16]
The Azerbaijani crew members of the Kramco trade ship, which crashed on Monday in the Black Sea near the Kilyos district of Istanbul, are in a stable condition, Azerbaijan's General Consul in Turkey Sayyad Aran said.
08 September 2009 [10:23]
08 September 2009 [09:37]
President of Kaliningrad Martial Arts Association Nadir Agayev has been appointed head of Leningrad administration of Russia's Kaliningrad province.
08 September 2009 [09:09]
Dry cargo ship Kramco under flag of Cambodia which was carrying Azerbaijanis as well crashed on Monday in the Black Sea near Istanbul. General Consul of Azerbaijan in Turkey Sayad Aran said.
08 September 2009 [08:44]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev examined works at the construction site of the Heydar Aliyev Center on Sept. 7.
07 September 2009 [17:05]
The "Green Cyclists" club will hold a "Green Week" on environmental protection Azerbaijan on Sept. 9 to 15.
07 September 2009 [16:14]
07 September 2009 [15:54]
In some cases Azerbaijani courts do not fulfill resolutions of the Constitutional Court (CC), CC Chairman Farhad Abdullayev said.
07 September 2009 [15:38]
07 September 2009 [13:28]
Heads of Caspian litoral states from CIS are expected to be guests at the finals of the Silk Road Rally - Dakar Series - scheduled for Sept. 13, national TV channel Altyn Asyr reported quoting Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov as saying at the latest government meeting.
07 September 2009 [08:47]
Canada confirmed its first human death from influenza H1N1, making it the third country to report a fatality as the number of confirmed cases climbed to 3,200 with Japan and Australia joining the list of countries reporting confirmed infections.
05 September 2009 [12:39]
Europe's capital of culture is interested in expanding relations with Azerbaijan's Sumgayit city.
05 September 2009 [11:58]
Health Ministry of Saudi Arabia has prepared a number of proposals to prevent spread of A H1N1 among the Hajj pilgrims, Azerbaijani Health Ministry said.
05 September 2009 [11:27]
Deadline set to file an appeal against results of the competition declared by Fund of State Support to Media Development expires today, fund's Supervisory Board chairman Umud Rahimoglu said.
05 September 2009 [09:52]
A total of 43 people suffered from bite of venomous snakes in Azerbaijan since the beginning of summer, doctor at toxicology center Azer Magsudov said.
05 September 2009 [09:36]
Azerbaijan's first international television ATV International (ATV Int) may be on air late this month, editor-in-chief of news department of ATV TV channel Vagif Aydinoglu said.
05 September 2009 [09:16]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and his spouse Mehriban Aliyeva attended a concert of Russian pop star, People`s Artist of the USSR and Russian Federation Alla Pugacheva in the Heydar Aliyev Palace on Sept. 4.
05 September 2009 [08:48]
On Friday, Russia's pop diva Alla Pugachova performed a concert in Baku as a part of her farewell world tour.
04 September 2009 [17:53]
Azerbaijani Youth and Sports Minister, Azad Rahimov believes in a fair court decision on case of young activists.
04 September 2009 [17:46]
The preparatory meeting on case of the detained bloggers was held in Baku today.
04 September 2009 [17:19]
About 5 million manat was spent for Azerbaijani sports sector within 8 months.
04 September 2009 [16:57]
Representatives of Azerbaijan Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies and GSM operators of the country will visit Moscow on Sept. 7 to 9.
04 September 2009 [16:34]
Rahman Hasanov, father of Armenian-captured Azerbaijani soldier Rafig Hasanov has not heard of his son since July 27.
04 September 2009 [16:18]
Azerbaijan will chair the GUAM Youth Forum in 2010-2011, Youth and Sports Minister Azad Rahimov said at a news conference.
04 September 2009 [16:01]
Michael Jackson was mourned by his family and celebrities including Elizabeth Taylor, Barry Bonds and Macaulay Culkin at a private funeral service held Thursday night outside the elaborate mausoleum where the King of Pop will be entombed, AP reported.
04 September 2009 [15:49]
The Chairman of the Azerbaijani Parliamentary Committee supports an amendment to the "Immigration" Law.
04 September 2009 [15:38]
Azerbaijani judokas will be provided with double security in the Youth European Championship to be held in Yerevan on September 9-14.
04 September 2009 [14:52]
Four Azerbaijani seamen from the Buket ship detained by the Georgian border guards may leave Georgia on Sept. 4. The owners of the ship paid the fine for them, a source in the Azerbaijani Embassy in Georgia said.
04 September 2009 [14:43]
The vice-president of the Azerbaijani National Olympics Committee (NOC) Chingiz Huseynzade has been elected Vice President of the Islamic Solidarity Sport Federation (ISSF).
04 September 2009 [14:37]
Azerbaijan State Telegraph Agency (AzerTac) and Tajikistan`s Khovar news agency have signed a news exchange agreement, granting free reciprocal access to their material.
04 September 2009 [13:18]
The Central Security Department has not received any appeal to ensure security in Azerbaijani secondary and higher schools by the security services in a new academic year.
04 September 2009 [12:59]
The ceasefire has been violated 199 times on the Azerbaijan-Armenia contact line from mid-June to early September, Spokesman of the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry Eldar Sabiroglu said.
04 September 2009 [12:38]
Three soldiers of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces have hit mine.
04 September 2009 [12:29]
Nobody has right to interfere in buying of school uniforms by parents in Azerbaijan, Azerbaijani Education Minister Misir Mardanov said.
04 September 2009 [11:09]
The Azerbaijani public budget allocated about 60 million manat for a new academic year, Azerbaijani Education Minister Misir Mardanov said.
04 September 2009 [10:48]
The teaching of foreign languages will be intensified in Azerbaijani secondary schools in the 2009-2010 academic year.
04 September 2009 [09:41]
03 September 2009 [17:37]
Armenian and Azerbaijani sports officials met in the Armenian Ministry of Sports and Youth on Sept. 3.
03 September 2009 [17:03]
The death toll from the 7.0- magnitude earthquake that struck near the Indonesian island of Java yesterday rose to 57 people after more bodies were found, the National Disaster Management Agency said.
03 September 2009 [15:49]
03 September 2009 [14:12]
Organization for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments in the Occupied Territories of Azerbaijan made presentation of a book entitled "Forced Armenization" in Baku.
03 September 2009 [13:58]
03 September 2009 [13:46]
The flagship of the Caspian Fleet of the Russian Federation including missile ship "Tatarstan" and the hydrographic vessel "Anatoly Guzhvin" are going to pay an unofficial visit to the Baku port.
03 September 2009 [13:38]
There is no problem related to mosques, but problem of illegal buildings in Azerbaijan, Gunduz Ismayilov, official of State Committee for Work with Religious Associations, said.
03 September 2009 [12:42]
YouTube is in talks with Hollywood movie studios to offer streaming movie rentals, according to The Wall Street Journal.
03 September 2009 [10:39]
The Azerbaijani Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry held a monitoring to study the level of contamination in transboundary rivers in the decade of August.
03 September 2009 [09:47]
03 September 2009 [09:24]
A quake with magnitude 7 on Richter scale hit Indonesia (West Java) at about 14.55 by local time on Sept. 2.
03 September 2009 [09:06]
Azerbaijan Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies held a board meeting on implementation of “State Program on establishment and development of space industry in Azerbaijan Republic” on Sept. 2.
03 September 2009 [08:47]
02 September 2009 [17:54]
A British-based academic has uncovered a fragment of the world's oldest Bible hiding underneath the binding of an 18th-century book, 'The Independent' reported.
02 September 2009 [17:48]
Azerbaijani Ombudsman Elmira Suleymanova has applied to the court of Sabail district of Baku on arrest of arrested bloggers.
02 September 2009 [17:31]
Three Georgian border guards were killed on the Georgia-Turkey border on Sept. 2.
02 September 2009 [16:01]
Goofy videos weren’t on the minds of Len Kleinrock and his team at UCLA when they began tests 40 years ago on what would become the Internet, according to Associated Press.
02 September 2009 [15:42]
Armenia will ensure safety of Azerbaijani judokas in the Youth European Championship to be held in Yerevan on September 9 to 14.
02 September 2009 [15:27]
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has sent a letter to Azerbaijani Health Ministry concerning the Hajj pilgrimage, Health Ministry official Viktor Gasimov said.
02 September 2009 [12:38]
U.S. President Barack Obama hosted an iftar, the dinner that breaks daily fast in Islamic holy month of Ramadan, in White House on Tuesday, Associated Press reported.
02 September 2009 [11:28]
As of September 1, 2009 the number of Azerbaijani POWs, hostages and missing persons from the Karabakh war totals 4,166 people, Azerbaijan State Commission for POWs, Hostages and Missing Persons.
02 September 2009 [11:17]
U.S. President Barack Obama Tuesday called on the nation to prepare for the second wave of H1N1 flu that has left thousands Americans hospitalized earlier this year, Xinhua reported.
02 September 2009 [10:08]
02 September 2009 [09:19]
Azerbaijan grandmaster Teymour Radjabov has found himself in the eight spot in the new rating list as of September 2009 published by the FIDE (International Chess Federation).
02 September 2009 [09:12]
Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Culture considers it possible to create a cultural channel under one of the local TV channels.
01 September 2009 [17:43]
The officers of the Azerbaijani interior ministry have rendered harmless the gang engaged in petrol theft in Baku.
01 September 2009 [16:59]
On September 1, the building of Union of Azerbaijan Composers reopened after overhaul and reconstruction.
01 September 2009 [16:12]
01 September 2009 [15:49]
There is a need to hold a dialogue between officials and journalists on the bill on 'Defamation', Chairman of the Azerbaijani Press Council Aflatun Amashov said.
01 September 2009 [15:18]
A accident took place in Mozdok-Tbilisi gas pipeline section running via Ingushetia on Sept. 1.
01 September 2009 [12:34]
On Sept. 1, Fund for State Support to Media Development under the Azerbaijani President has released results of the competition for media outlets to get financial support in 2009.
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