Society
06 September 2006 [22:28]
NGOs and paper editorial offices will be moved from the Government House, APA reports. Azerbaijan's State Committee for Management of Public Property (SCMPP) notified the organizations in the building.
06 September 2006 [21:50]
Azerbaijan's National Security Ministry has neutralized a transnational organized gang, which were smuggling narcotic drugs via Iran-Azerbaijan-Russia route.
06 September 2006 [21:43]
Azerbaijan's Court of Grave Crimes today continued the trial of the 26-member gang led by Haji Mammadov, former high ranking official of the Interior Ministry Crime Investigation Department.
06 September 2006 [21:38]
Azerbaijan were held to a 1-1 draw at home by Kazakhstan in their Group A Euro 2008 qualifier on Wednesday.
06 September 2006 [21:28]
There are 399 foreign prisoners in Azerbaijan, Rafig Ramazanov, Justice Ministry Main Office to Implement Court Decisions deputy chief told.
06 September 2006 [14:54]
The National TV and Radio Council will consider license issue for transmission of foreign TV channel in Azerbaijan, Nushirevan Menerremli, NTRC chief told.
06 September 2006 [13:56]
The European Union TACIS program having been administered in the CIS including Azerbaijan since 1992 is finishing, Coordinator of the Europa House, Wolfgang Sporrer, said.
06 September 2006 [10:33]
Prisoner Azer Nuriyev stitched his mouth in Bayil Jail #1 on August6 29, his mother Zamina Nuriyeva told.
06 September 2006 [09:51]
Iranian director Jafar Panahi's controversial flick "Offside" will be screened at the 8th International East-West Film Festival opened in Baku, capital of Republic of Azerbaijan.
06 September 2006 [09:43]
The last week in Romania took place the 8th international festival of short documentaries Eko-Ethno-Folk, organized by Independent Cultural Fund Neste Tarane in association with Romanian Ministry of Culture and Religion, and Cinematography Association.
06 September 2006 [09:08]
The 3rd World Youth Employment Summit will take place in Kenya from September 13 till 16.
06 September 2006 [08:44]
Turkish Delta FM radio began broadcasting a program named "The voice of Azerbaijan".
05 September 2006 [21:58]
The head of the Azerbaijani presidential administration said on Tuesday that the level of Russian language teaching in the former Soviet republic must be improved.
05 September 2006 [20:55]
Azerbaijan's Court of Grave Crimes today continued the trial of the 26-member gang led by Haji Mammadov, former high ranking official of the Interior Ministry Crime Investigation Department.
05 September 2006 [20:49]
Azerbaijani publishing companies will be represented at the annual Frankfurt International Book Fair to be held from 4 to 8 October, according to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Azerbaijan.
05 September 2006 [20:47]
Deputy Director of Z. Buniadov Institute of Oriental Studies Shahin Mustafayev has returned from a trip to the United States.
05 September 2006 [20:46]
Geology Institute of ANAS (Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences) has signed collaboration agreement with Korea Institute of Geosciences and Mineral Researches.
05 September 2006 [20:26]
05 September 2006 [20:17]
Artyom Khachaturyan, professor of the Yerevan Slavic University called Turkmenistan's President Saparmurat Niyazov "successor of barbarians."
05 September 2006 [20:02]
Eleven people, including a 2-year old baby, died and the same number were injured Tuesday when a bus collided with a truck, officials said.
05 September 2006 [16:19]
Court of Grave Crimes today continued the trial of the 26-member gang led by Haji Mammadov, former high ranking official of the Interior Ministry Crime Investigation Department.
05 September 2006 [14:27]
The life-term prisoners of Gobustan jail of Azerbaijan have appealed to prosecutor-general Zakir Garalov, Ombudsman Elmira Suleymanova and human rights activists.
05 September 2006 [09:27]
The International Visual Arts Festival will be held in Ganja from the 8th till 10th of September 2006.
05 September 2006 [09:08]
Azerbaijani Military Prosecutors' Office officer Fuzuli Mammadov, who shot his son and himself on family dispute on 28 August, this year, is still in coma.
05 September 2006 [08:59]
Elchin Behbudov, chief of the Azerbaijan Commission against Torture appealed to President Ilham Aliyev for releasing national hero Rasim Akberov, who is held in Detention Place #1.
04 September 2006 [20:21]
Religious activists in predominantly Shiite Muslim Azerbaijan Monday called for officials to change rules barring headscarves in ID photos, saying that the law violated observant women's civil rights.
04 September 2006 [20:13]
Azerbaijan's Court of Grave Crimes today continued the trial of the 26-member gang led by Haji Mammadov, former high ranking official of the Interior Ministry Crime Investigation Department.
04 September 2006 [20:05]
The building in Hajikand settlement, in which two Azerbaijani displaced families from Khojali were housed, collapsed.
04 September 2006 [19:58]
Two-month arsons completely destroyed the villages of Yusifjanli, Novruzlu, Baghbanlar, Saybali, Sarijali and Bash Garvand of Aghdam District.
04 September 2006 [19:56]
"The editors-in-chief of some newspapers want to meet with the President to ask for stopping prosecution of journalists."
04 September 2006 [16:41]
On Tuesday, Hungarian court will hold next hearing on jailer's claim against Ramil Safarov, Azerbaijani Army officer, who was sentenced to life in prison for murdering Armenian lieutenant Gurgen Markarian in Hungary.
04 September 2006 [16:31]
Muradov Suleyman, resident of Azerbaijani region of Gusar, who was wanted for committing several grave crimes, has been arrested by Dagestan's law enforcement bodies in the capital Derbend.
04 September 2006 [16:29]
Azerbaijan's Court of Grave Crimes today continued the trial of the 26-member gang led by Haji Mammadov, former high ranking official of the Interior Ministry Crime Investigation Department.
04 September 2006 [16:26]
Azerbaijan's Interior Troops in conjunction with Sabayil executive power and Azerbaijan State Economic University established 'Shahin' military camp for children in Nigedi village of Guba.
04 September 2006 [16:25]
The second bird flu monitoring will start in mid September in Azerbaijan.
04 September 2006 [13:48]
Chechnya's prime minister said Monday the inaction of local authorities was to blame for weekend violence in a Russian region bordering on Finland after Chechens allegedly killed two Russians in a fight last week.
04 September 2006 [13:44]
Five hundred high-powered minds will convene this evening at Heichal Hatarbut in Rishon Letzion for the opening of the World Blitz Championship, a chess tournament with a purse totaling $100,000.
04 September 2006 [13:17]
The national football team of Kazakhstan is departing today, September 6, for Baku where it will play its second EURO-2008 qualifier at the Tofik Bahramov stadium.
04 September 2006 [10:44]
Poland finally claimed their first win in the 2006 women's volleyball World Grand Prix on Sunday.
03 September 2006 [12:43]
Cuba edged closer to earning a place in the women's volleyball World Grand Prix finals after beating Azerbaijan in straight sets Saturday at the tournament's qualifying round, Ningbo leg.
03 September 2006 [12:39]
A Nikola Zigic header in the 71st minute gave Serbia a laboured 1-0 win against Azerbaijan in their opening Euro 2008 Group A qualifier played behind closed doors on Saturday.
02 September 2006 [11:06]
Olympic champions China held off a strong challenge from Azerbaijan to open their FIVB World Grand Prix Ningbo leg campaign on a winning note Friday.
02 September 2006 [10:28]
Azerbaijan National Academy of Science Archeology and Ethnography Institute had excavation in Guba.
02 September 2006 [10:15]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev sent a message of condolence to the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Mr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, sharing his sorrow and grief on heavy human loss as a result of plane crash at the airport in Mashad.
02 September 2006 [09:58]
Bulgarian Sports Minister Vasili Ivanov will visit Azerbaijan soon, Rafig Abbasov, Youth and Sport Ministry press office chief informed.
02 September 2006 [09:45]
"Audio record of the confrontation between Zakir Nasirov and Haji Mammadov to sound soon," Adil Ismayilov, Interior Ministry Crime Investigation Department former chief Zakir Nasirov's lawyer told a press conference.
01 September 2006 [22:47]
Today Hungarian court held court hearings on jailers' claim against Ramil Safarov, Azerbaijani army officer, who was sentenced to life in prison for murdering Armenian lieutenant Gurgen Markarian.
01 September 2006 [21:51]
"I have known Haji Mammadov since 1989. I was a chief investigator on Baku Beer Plant director Fazil Shiraliyev's murdering fact. I worked in Prosecutors Office as a special investigator", Adil Ismayilov, IM Crime investigation Department former chief Zakir Nasirov's lawyer, told in the press conference.
01 September 2006 [21:26]
The second consultation within the Kyiv Initiative program attended by all of the three Caucasus states as well as representatives of Ukrainian and Moldovan Culture Ministries and Robert Palmer, Director of Culture and Cultural and Natural Heritage of the Council of Europe held at the Council of Europe yesterday.
01 September 2006 [16:37]
Interior Ministry Main Office to Fight Narcotics and southern regional office arrested Russian Azerbaijani, who was trafficking illicit drug on Iran-Azerbaijan-Russia route.
01 September 2006 [13:23]
Average monthly temperature is forecast to be 1-2 degrees above norms in Azerbaijan in September.
01 September 2006 [12:03]
Azerbaijani Police Academy major drowned in the Kyur river.
01 September 2006 [12:01]
The criminal case against "Bakuelectroshtamp" and "Bakipoladtokme" OJSC Managing Staff chief Nureddin Zulfugarli and his brother Loghman Zulfugarli has been voided.
01 September 2006 [10:00]
The treatment of Azerbaijan National Academy of Science former president Eldar Salayev ended his treatment and returned to Azerbaijan, Nuraddin Ismayilov, ADP press service chief stated.
01 September 2006 [09:42]
Rustam Ibrahimbayov's screenplay "Migrants" produced by "Kazakhfilm" will be demonstrated in the Russian capital, Moscow on September 6, Azerbaijan Cinematographers Union informs.
01 September 2006 [09:34]
Communications and Information Technologies Minister of Azerbaijan, Ali Abbasov, has today received newly appointed Ambassador of Germany to Azerbaijan, Per Stanchina.
31 August 2006 [21:16]
31 August 2006 [21:10]
"Mountain Jews" live harmoniously with their Muslim neighbours in the north of the country.
31 August 2006 [20:49]
Azerbaijan's Human Rights Defense Center director Eldar Zeynalov and the center member Zaliha Tahirova visited Gobustan prison.
31 August 2006 [20:48]
The cause of the landslide in Dozular village of the Azerbaijani region of has been found.
31 August 2006 [20:38]
Azerbaijan's Court of Grave Crimes today continued the trial of the 26-member gang led by Haji Mammadov, former high ranking official of Interior Ministry Crime Investigation Department.
31 August 2006 [20:30]
Azerbaijan's State Veterinary Service analyzed the blood samples taken from 36 wild birds from Absheron peninsula, Pirallahi Island, Devechi, Salyan, Aghjabedi, Lenkeran and coastal areas and also 2214 birds from poultry farms during the monitoring held from August 21-25.
31 August 2006 [15:34]
Court of Grave Crimes today continued the trial of the 26-member gang led by Haji Mammadov, former high ranking official of Interior Ministry Crime Investigation Department.
31 August 2006 [15:28]
September 1 and 5, Hungarian court will hold court hearings on prison officers' claim against Ramil Safarov, Azerbaijani army officer, who was sentenced to life in prison for murdering Armenian lieutenant Gurgen Markarian.
31 August 2006 [13:38]
More than 50 people were expelled from Russia after the first stage of operative and preventive actions against violation of migration laws, which was completed on August, 25.
31 August 2006 [13:35]
An incident happened between servicemen and residents in Toghana village of Azerbaijani region of Khanlar on August 29 at about 2300 hrs.
31 August 2006 [13:32]
The State Security Office's chief officer on duty committed suicide in Atlant holiday resort in Khachmaz region early Thursday morning.
31 August 2006 [11:46]
Resident of Chayurd village of the Azerbaijani southern region of Lerik Fazil Rzayev died at the age of 109.
31 August 2006 [11:45]
Azerbaijan's State Student Admission Commission announced the results of addition admission to the higher schools' vacancies in "Abituriyent" magazine 8th edition and results of admission to technical schools in 7th edition.
31 August 2006 [09:03]
International tournament among young judoists in Manisa, Turkey ended.
31 August 2006 [09:00]
The Gafgaz University in partnership with German DAAD and Magdeburg University will organize a two-week session.
30 August 2006 [21:12]
The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan has announced photo competition among junior photographers on the theme "To Save Animal World for the Future Generations."
30 August 2006 [21:01]
30 August 2006 [21:00]
President Ilham Aliyev issued an Executive Order on marking 125th anniversary of the Iravan Azerbaijan State Theater.
30 August 2006 [20:39]
A delegation of writers from Israel will arrive in Baku on September 4.
Dance of death at Azerbaijani border
UK wants to transfer its illegal immigrants to Armenia
Iran's response to Israel or open threat to regional states?
Minister Bayramov attends GCC meeting
Iran plays war game to avoid world's wrath over Palestinian issue
New project launched to promote country's musical and architectural heritage
Tehran airports resumes operations