Society
24 November 2006 [23:02]
While touring Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Ambassador of Moldova to Azerbaijan Ion Robu visited Nakhchivan State University (NSU).
24 November 2006 [22:57]
24 November 2006 [22:54]
On November 24, a meeting took place at the Baku Slavic University with the delegation headed by the Speaker of Bulgaria's National Assembly Georgi Pirinski.
24 November 2006 [22:28]
"Investigation should be made in the occupied territories to get broad information about Azerbaijani war prisoners and hostages.
24 November 2006 [22:23]
Police forces remove Azadliq, NGOs and APFP from their premises.
24 November 2006 [22:18]
Azerbaijan's Court of Grave Crimes continued the trial of the gang led by Haji Mammadov, former high ranking official of the Interior Ministry Crime Investigation Department.
24 November 2006 [22:08]
Azerbaijan international Sergei Sokolov has been provisionally suspended by UEFA after failing a doping test following last month's Euro 2008 qualifier against Belgium.
24 November 2006 [16:18]
Officers of National Security, Internal Affairs, Communications and Information Technologies Ministries and Prosecutor's Office arrived at ANS premises to execute the decision made by the National Council for Television and Radio.
24 November 2006 [15:46]
Court of Grave Crimes today continued the trial of the gang led by Haji Mammadov, former high ranking official of the Interior Ministry Crime Investigation Department.
24 November 2006 [15:38]
The editor-in-chief of Azadliq newspaper Ganimat Zahid who began hunger strike since November 9 stopped the strike.
24 November 2006 [13:56]
Ten school directors were dismissed as the result of controls held in 42 Baku schools by Education Ministry, Education Minister Misir Mardanov told the journalists.
24 November 2006 [13:03]
"I don't have anything specific on the hunger strike or on the specific issues surrounding it.
24 November 2006 [10:55]
24 November 2006 [10:49]
Two dead men were found in the guard's room of the shop in Saray settlement.
24 November 2006 [10:41]
Former captain of Azerbaijan national football team, Nazim Suleymanov got invitation from Russian clubs.
24 November 2006 [10:31]
Refugees' nationality was not included in the law "Repatriation of the refugees" passed in a few days in Georgia.
24 November 2006 [10:29]
International conference of self-regulation of media organized by Azerbaijan Press Council (PC) will be held in Baku next month.
24 November 2006 [10:28]
The members of Press Council met with the chairman of State Committee for Management of Public Property Kerem Hasanov.
24 November 2006 [10:26]
The next meeting of ISESCO (Islamic Education, Science and Culture Organizations) member states' Education Ministers will be held in Baku on September 8 in 2008, Education Minister Misir Mardanov told journalists.
23 November 2006 [23:57]
The International Football Federation has released its latest rankings where Azerbaijan rose five places to 123rd in the world.
23 November 2006 [23:56]
Moscow Committee of Education (MCE) and Azerbaijani Ministry of Education expand relations, MCE said. In June 2007, MCE will organize summer camps and Russian language courses for 20 Azeri school pupils at the Moscow secondary school N 157.
23 November 2006 [23:55]
The exhibition on the occasion of three-hundredth anniversary of great statesman and political figure Benjamin Franklin was opened at the Central Scientific Library of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS).
23 November 2006 [23:33]
On Thursday the First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva received a title of ISESCO goodwill ambassador.
23 November 2006 [23:27]
159 crimes on procuration of women, brothels and human trafficking were found in Azerbaijan this year.
23 November 2006 [23:20]
FIFA suspended Iran from international soccer Thursday because of government interference.
23 November 2006 [18:11]
Ombudsman of the Azerbaijan Republic with support of UNICEF on November 22 held a conference dedicated to the question how to create a safe world for children.
23 November 2006 [18:03]
There are 253 women prisoners in Azerbaijan at the moment. They serve their punishment in the detention ward 4.
23 November 2006 [16:35]
Court of Grave Crimes today continued the trial of the gang led by Haji Mammadov, former high ranking official of the Interior Ministry Crime Investigation Department.
23 November 2006 [15:45]
FILA refused to mitigate the punishment of Azerbaijani wrestler Husameddin Rejebli, who was disqualified for two years because of found banned preparations in his blood.
23 November 2006 [10:50]
Fikret Amirov's 1001 Nights ballet will be staged in Cairo Opera and Ballet Theatre, the Culture and Tourism Minister Abulfaz Garayev told the journalists.
23 November 2006 [10:45]
Azerbaijan Football Federation Association (AFFA) moves to Nobel Avenue in early December.
23 November 2006 [10:43]
The health of two Independent Azerbaijan University students holding hunger strike in Musavat Party Office deteriorated.
23 November 2006 [10:40]
"If Ganimat Zahidov does not stop hunger strike, this is his right, we cannot exert pressure on him. But I offered him to stop the strike.
23 November 2006 [10:34]
The number of people living in the Azeri territories occupied by Armenia decreased compared with last year.
22 November 2006 [23:05]
The editor-in-chief of Azerbaijan's Senet newspaper and a correspondent of the newspaper Rafik Tagi committed a serious crime by publishing an anti-Islamic article in the newspaper, Deputy Azeri Prosecutor General Rustam Usubov told journalists on Wednesday.
22 November 2006 [23:03]
The health of an Azerbaijani opposition editor who went on hunger strike about two weeks ago to protest government pressure is deteriorating, an opposition spokesman said Wednesday.
22 November 2006 [22:10]
"50 percent increase of judges by the president will enable to consider the court cases efficiently," said Minister of Justice Fikret Mammadov.
22 November 2006 [22:08]
Lifer Dayanat Kerimov has appealed to President Ilham Aliyev and right defenders.
22 November 2006 [22:05]
"It is illegal to shut these kindergartens down in connection with privatization.
22 November 2006 [22:03]
FC Baku intends to transfer David Pyeppey Etoo, brother of Barcelona's forward, Samuel Eto'o.
22 November 2006 [21:58]
Azerbaijan's Court of Grave Crimes continued the trial of the gang led by Haji Mammadov, former high ranking official of the Interior Ministry Crime Investigation Department.
22 November 2006 [21:38]
Azerbaijan's Court of Grave Crimes continued the trial of the gang led by Haji Mammadov, former high ranking official of the Interior Ministry Crime Investigation Department.
22 November 2006 [21:18]
Iran border-guards first saw the destruction of the crosses in Armenian cemetery near the old Juga territory.
22 November 2006 [14:26]
The wedding party resulted in tragedy in Barda.
22 November 2006 [14:25]
Although Education Ministry rose an issue of abolishing Derbend branch of Azerbaijan State Economic University at the Cabinet, it was not accepted at the meeting presided over the President.
22 November 2006 [14:23]
"We persist in holding football match between Azerbaijan and Armenia in neutral field. At the same time, it does not matter where the match will take place," said AFFA Secretary General Fuad Asadov.
22 November 2006 [13:54]
The health of the hunger-striking editor of the daily Azadlig, Ganimat Zahidov, has deteriorated sharply but he rejected a plea from the journalists' union to end his fast as a campaign by journalists and opponents of President Ilham Aliyev against press freedom violations gained momentum.
22 November 2006 [13:48]
Azerbaijan's Minister of Culture and Tourism Abulfaz Qarayev met November 21 with Egyptian Deputy Minister of Culture Mohammed Anwar Ibrahim and his accompanying delegation who arrived in Baku to participate in the Week of Egyptian Culture in Azerbaijan.
22 November 2006 [13:45]
Participants of the PA BSEC 28th fall session in Baku the same day have familiarized with the Museum of Azerbaijan Carpet and Applied Arts.
22 November 2006 [13:43]
The Week of Egyptian Culture in Azerbaijan opened November 21 at the 'Azerbaijan' movie theatre in Baku.
22 November 2006 [13:39]
With the participation of the Israeli ambassador to Azerbaijan, Artur Lenk, and the rector of Azerbaijan University of Foreign Languages, the head of the Milli Majlis Standing Committee on International Relations and Inter-Parliamentary Ties, Samad Seyidov, the opening ceremony of the Week (Third) of Israeli films in Azerbaijan was held in Azerbaijan University of Foreign Languages.
22 November 2006 [13:12]
XII European film festival will be held in Baku November 23-25.
22 November 2006 [11:15]
Group of students of IAU have started hunger strike in the Musavat Party Office demanding restoration of their rights to education.
22 November 2006 [11:09]
Former Commander of the Special Police Force and ex-prisoner Fahmin Hajiyev's lawyer Ganira Iskenderova gave a press conference in Baku.
21 November 2006 [21:20]
The Basketball Week for mentally retarded persons and those with congenital disabilities organized by the Azerbaijan Special Olympic Committee will be held November 28-30.
21 November 2006 [20:58]
An Iranian cleric has offered his house as a reward to anyone who kills an Azeri writer he says insulted the Prophet Mohammad.
21 November 2006 [20:41]
The current challenges and future prospects of Azerbaijan's Public Television (PTV) were the focus of a roundtable discussion organized today by the OSCE Office in Baku.
21 November 2006 [20:37]
Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan, plans to bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics.
21 November 2006 [20:32]
Azerbaijan's Court of Grave Crimes continued the trial of the gang led by Haji Mammadov, former high ranking official of the Interior Ministry Crime Investigation Department.
21 November 2006 [20:06]
English singer, Azerbaijani by origin Sami Yusuf will have a concert in Heydar Aliyev Sport and Concert Complex.
21 November 2006 [20:04]
It is proposed to protract the execution of the project begun in early 2006 on the purpose of accommodation of Azerbaijani Penitentiary system to Europe standard, the chief of Penitentiary Service.
21 November 2006 [20:02]
Shuvalan detention ward 3 and Bayil detention ward 1 will be abolished, the chief of Penitentiary Service.
21 November 2006 [19:56]
Head of the Caucasian Muslims Office Haji Allahshukur Pashazadeh appealed to the Azadliq editor-in-chief Ganimat Zahid and the journalists joining the strike to support him.
21 November 2006 [17:19]
"There are 6000 lists of medical preparations in the doping sector at the Youth and Education Ministry and these preparations are not banned in the world health. At the same time any sportsman can fail a dope-test," Ismayil Ismayilov, Youth and Sport Deputy Minister stated.
21 November 2006 [17:13]
Court of Grave Crimes today continued the trial of the gang led by Haji Mammadov, former high ranking official of the Interior Ministry Crime Investigation Department.
21 November 2006 [13:04]
The change of the leader of Turkish Culture and Arts Joint Management Association (TURKSOY) is on the agenda.
21 November 2006 [12:06]
Editors Union decided to hold protest actions, director of Azadliq newspaper Azer Ahmedov told.
21 November 2006 [12:01]
"Some radical religious groups exist in Azerbaijan. They are not some sects but private groups," chief of the State Committee on work with Religious Organizations, Hidayet Orucov stated.
21 November 2006 [11:50]
Investigation on criminal case concerning explosion of military helicopter "MI-8" by Armenians in Garakend has been stopped, Republic Prosecutor's Press Service told.
20 November 2006 [21:58]
An assessment report on Azerbaijan's Public Television (PTV) development needs, commissioned by the OSCE Office in Baku, was presented to the broadcaster's management on Monday.
20 November 2006 [21:23]
On Monday the trial on the case of the application lodged with the Court of Appeal by Natig Afendiyev has been over. The trial was presided over by Appeals Court chair Allahveren Hasanov.
20 November 2006 [21:14]
Azerbaijan's Court of Grave Crimes continued the trial of the gang led by Haji Mammadov, former high ranking official of the Interior Ministry Crime Investigation Department.
20 November 2006 [17:40]
367 religious communities have been registered in Azerbaijan up to now, Hidayat Orujoov the chief of the State Committee on Work with Religious Organizations told.
20 November 2006 [15:46]
Azerbaijani chess grandmaster Teymur Rajabov snatched third place in the international Blitz Cup of Mikhail Tal tournament in the Russian capital of Moscow.
20 November 2006 [15:28]
The European Court of Human Rights' judgement on the case of Fahmin Hajiyev will become effective in February -after three months from the date on which the judgement was passed.
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