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26 June 2006 [15:30]
Blood collecting ceremony for meeting demands of patients sick with thalassemia held in Ali-Bayramli at the initiative of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation and Caucasus Muslims Office.
26 June 2006 [15:25]
Premiere of Platwright Nuraddin Gambar's "Headless Body" to take place in Youth Theater on June 29.
26 June 2006 [15:21]
Nizami Region Police Office associates have detained Surakhani resident for passing narcotic drug to prison.
26 June 2006 [15:19]
35 private beaches were closed on June 20 because of ignoring norms of Regulation on use of water reservoirs for rest and sport and warnings of Emergency Situations Ministry.
26 June 2006 [15:17]
100-person staff will arrive in Baku on June 27 to do technical preparations.
26 June 2006 [15:07]
Editor-in-chiefs Union held a meeting in connection with Azadlig newspaper’s correspondent Sakit Zahidov's arrest.
26 June 2006 [01:29]
A son of the chairman of Armenia's KGB, Georgy Badamyants, Russian SB colonel Yuri Badamyants committed suicide on June 21 in Moscow.
24 June 2006 [12:59]
The second regional meeting of education ministers and experts of Islamic countries opened in Isfahan, Islam's cultural capital for 2006, on Saturday.
24 June 2006 [09:07]
Within NATO Science Program, XXI meeting of Virtual Silk Way and opening of II meeting of OCCASION project will be held in Baku June 27.
23 June 2006 [22:04]
Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili has approved the creation of a new national park in the Caucasus Mountains.
23 June 2006 [21:55]
Grandmaster P Harikrishna struck back with a thumping victory over twice world junior champion Shakhriyar Mammadyarov of Azerbaijan in the sixth round of Aerosvit International Grandmasters Chess Tournament now underway in Crimea, Ukraine.
23 June 2006 [16:27]
At least 300 students of the private Azerbaijan International University will not be allowed to sit in final examinations this year due to their documents being in disorder and having academic debts.
23 June 2006 [15:18]
Independent Azerbaijan University students going on hunger strike today have held a press conference.
23 June 2006 [13:20]
The State Commission to Fight Illicit Drugs and Drug Addiction burnt over 100 kg of illicit drugs today.
23 June 2006 [08:47]
"Only Zaghulba, Buzovna and Bilgah beaches meet required sanitation standards at present," Azerbaijani Health Minister Ogtay Shireliyev told journalists.
23 June 2006 [08:32]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev met with the heads of Taekwondo Federation of the Republic, the winner taekwondoists and their coaches.
22 June 2006 [15:39]
Though the state-owned higher schools have not raised tuition fees for this year, some private universities have done it. The authorities of these higher schools explain it by different factors.
22 June 2006 [14:36]
The Belarussian authorities have granted refugee status to 794 people from 13 states, including several Azerbaijanis.
22 June 2006 [14:13]
Today Khatai Region Police Office entered anonym phone call on bomb in Baku Entertainment Center Eliza hall.
22 June 2006 [13:18]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev today attended the opening ceremony of the Central Military Hospital's Surgery Building of Defense Ministry in Jalil Mammadguluzadeh street of Nasimi district in Baku.
22 June 2006 [11:19]
"Armenia has destroyed thousands of pieces of historical and cultural heritage in the occupied Azerbaijani territories," said Associate Prof. Senol Kantarci from the Suleyman Demirel University Department of Ataturk's Principles and History of Turkish Revolution.
22 June 2006 [11:14]
Article by Mohammed A. R. Galadari for UAE's Khaleej Times edition.
22 June 2006 [09:46]
Ministry for Emergency Situations, State Water Rescue System (SWRS) started raiding beaches in Baku and Absheron peninsula yesterday.
22 June 2006 [09:34]
Yesterday Azerbaijan Press Council Language Committee has held a meeting.
22 June 2006 [02:04]
The first vist to Turkey by the head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Catholicos Karekin II, has triggered protests by ultra-nationalist and Islamist Turkish groups.
21 June 2006 [19:30]
Iranian expert names Caspian Sea pollution sources.
21 June 2006 [17:46]
The head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Catholicos Karekin II of All Armenians, has departed for Istanbul.
21 June 2006 [17:18]
On Tuesday, FM Abdullah Gul, currently in Baku attending the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) foreign ministers meeting, paid a visit to the Qafqaz University which is sponsored by Turkish businessmen.
21 June 2006 [17:11]
"There are some forces trying to exert influence on the religion in Azerbaijan. The country should be protected from such influences," UN resident coordinator in Azerbaijan Marco Borzotti said.
21 June 2006 [15:05]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev today received Kazakh prominent poet, scientist, social and political figure Oljas Suleymenov.
21 June 2006 [09:47]
Independent Azerbaijan University (IAU) Students appointed time for the Ministry of Education, finished yesterday.
21 June 2006 [08:52]
The 20 June - previous Africa Refugee Day under the UN General Assembly's December 4, 2004 decision 55/76 is marked as the World Refugee Day now.
21 June 2006 [08:37]
According to UNO General Assembly resolution, 20 June of every year will be marked as World Refugees Day.
21 June 2006 [08:00]
Azerbaijani State Student Admission Commission (SSAC) will start document admission for university entrance exams June 25, the Commission head Ms.Maleyka Abbaszadeh stated.
20 June 2006 [23:00]
"At present events happening in Iran is quite different that it is written in Azerbaijani media." The person resembling Azerbaijanis to animal and making diversion, is not Persian.
20 June 2006 [22:00]
The officers of Kazakhstan's Batis Regional Border Office has detained an Azerbaijani boat for illegal fishing in the Kazakh section of the Caspian Sea.
20 June 2006 [14:34]
President Ilham Aliyev has resolved to send 5 applicants of Group I, who will gain the highest points at the entrance exams, to study at European Universities.
20 June 2006 [13:28]
June 18 the constituent meeting of new structure, which will operate under the name of "Association of friends to the Azerbaijan culture in Germany", took place in headquarters of the Society "Azerbaijan Cultur Ojagi" in Berlin.
20 June 2006 [13:11]
Ministry of Emergency Situations (MES) warns the people that most of the beaches in the coastal areas of the Absheron peninsula, which are owned by different juridical and physical persons, lack necessary rescue facilities and rescue teams to provide security of citizens.
20 June 2006 [08:17]
State Land and Cartography Committee has presented package of proposals to parliament on development of agrarian field legislation base.
19 June 2006 [13:24]
The students of the private Independent Azerbaijan University (IAU) have been going on hunger strike demanding restoration of their rights for nineteen days.
19 June 2006 [09:36]
From the 19th-27th of June, a jazz festival will be held in the capital of Azerbaijan Baku which will feature world-famous jazz artists Al Jarreau and Herbie Hancock as well as musicians from many other countries, as well as Azerbaijan's own jazz stars.
19 June 2006 [08:58]
Justice Minister Fikrat Mammadov, Prosecutor General Zakir Garalov and Supreme Court Chairman Ramiz Rzayev visited Ganja two days ago.
18 June 2006 [19:29]
"The Australian" edition on Agalarovs' business
18 June 2006 [15:14]
The Education Ministry will not meet the demands of the protesting students of the Independent Azerbaijan University, within the allotted time until June 20.
18 June 2006 [15:10]
Interior Ministry Main Criminal-Search Office ex-senior operation commissioner Haji Mammadov's detachment's preparatory court process has been delayed to June 4.
17 June 2006 [12:22]
"New places of detention will be built in different regions of Azerbaijan.
17 June 2006 [08:47]
Azerbaijani citizen Polad Sirajov, who has long been held in the Guantanamo detention camp facing the charge of collaborating with al-Gaida terrorist organization, has been moved to the rehabilitation center of the International Committee of The Red Cross (ICRC).
17 June 2006 [02:06]
A remarkable event related to Azerbaijan occurred at the final of the "New Star" song contest held by French M6 TV channel.
16 June 2006 [21:51]
Copies of religious book titled "How I suffer indignity" with unanimous author are distributed in the northern regions of Azerbaijan.
16 June 2006 [16:40]
The Azerbaijan National Agency for Mine Action (ANAMA) officers today disarmed the PM-62 antitank mine that Armenians threw into the Khachin River in Husenly village of Azerbaijan's Terter region.
16 June 2006 [15:04]
The students of the private Independent Azerbaijan University (IAU), who have been going on hunger strike for sixteen days, held a press conference today.
16 June 2006 [11:58]
Hot weather, which is above norm, is forecasted to be in Azerbaijan in the third ten-day of June.
16 June 2006 [11:57]
"Three old manuscripts preserved at the Azerbaijan National Academy of Science Institute of Manuscripts have been included into the UNESCO's world memory of the world's most precious and rare written monuments," said head of the Institute of Manuscripts translation and information department, president of the Azerbaijan Medical Historians’ Union, Farid Alakbarli.
15 June 2006 [22:44]
Students at private college challenge authorities' bid to squeeze non-state higher education sector.
15 June 2006 [15:50]
On June 15, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and his spouse Mehriban Aliyeva visited Zira and Bina settlements of Azizbeyov district to become familiar with the construction activities and process of implementation of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation's projects in the settlements surrounding Baku city.
15 June 2006 [15:38]
The issue concerning ethnic monitories in Azerbaijan will be on the agenda of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Annual Session to be held next month in Brussels.
15 June 2006 [13:36]
The United Nations Population Fund launched its three-year regional project Reproductive Health Initiative for Youth in the South Caucasus (RHIYC), on June 13.
15 June 2006 [02:00]
Former Iranian vice president Masumeh Ebtekar said here on Wednesday that Iran played a leading role in protecting the environment of the Caspian Sea by initiating the Tehran Convention.
15 June 2006 [01:45]
First international conference "Traditional Medicine and Material Medica in Medieval Manuscripts" by the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, continues in Yevlakh.
15 June 2006 [01:26]
Within 5 months Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources implemented examinations in Velvelchay, Garachay (Guba-Khachmaz), Behramtepe-1, Behramtepe-2, Imishli, Shemkirchay (Shemkir), Lenkeranchay (Lenkeran), and Aghsu sand-gravel deposits.
15 June 2006 [01:24]
Deadly skirmish occurred between residents outside 'Tourist' canteen in Shamakhi city of Azerbaijan on Tuesday.
15 June 2006 [01:00]
Azerbaijan State Border Service associates discovered rather ammunition behind the fence of Ganja airport, on the side of the road packed in pasteboard, one unit F-1, 1 RGD-5, 1 RG-42 hand grenades, 1 barrel of a rifle for fire, 1517 number bullet of 5,45 mm.
15 June 2006 [00:56]
11 Azerbaijani journalists, who were detained during the recent mass demonstrations in Iran, have not been released from prison yet.
15 June 2006 [00:54]
Not depending on property form illegal establishments built by the citizens and economy subjects are liquidated in Lenkeran.
14 June 2006 [15:48]
"The information on Murad and Rena Shadeddinovs’ taking bribe was given to us from Council of Europe. They are swindler bringing spot to the name of right defenders."
14 June 2006 [09:58]
Yesterday presentation ceremony of the book "Azerbaijan national cuisine blessing" by the chairman of Azerbaijan National Culinary Investigation, Propaganda and Integration Unity to the World, Haji Jabir Khalifezade, was held.
14 June 2006 [08:49]
The trail of Natella Aliyeva and Eduard Yusifov, who are accused of trafficking persons by the Court of Grave Crimes was postponed till June 20.
14 June 2006 [08:34]
Special commission organized with regard to cargo train crash in Mughanli station of Hajigabul region.
14 June 2006 [07:59]
The next troop train of Russian military base 62 in Akhalkalaki left Chalka Railway Station in Georgia for Russia through the area of Azerbaijan as transit.
13 June 2006 [21:40]
Three men struggle to lift a squirming, nearly 2-meter (6.5 foot) gray fish with a pointy nose and distinctive jagged spine and spill it into the green waters of the Caspian Sea.
13 June 2006 [20:57]
The World Food Programme (WFP) today appealed for continued support to Azerbaijanis displaced from the disputed region of Nagorno Karabakh by the conflict with Armenia, as the United Nations agency launched a new project to help feed more than 143,500 of those affected.
13 June 2006 [14:04]
Delegation of the Justice Ministry of Azerbaijan led by chief of department Azer Jafarov has been visiting Strasbourg to take part at 7th sitting of Azerbaijan-CoE working group on independence, election, appointment and assessment of the work of judges in the country.
13 June 2006 [13:00]
Treatment of Azerbaijani resident Polad Sirajov will be completed in early next week, who has been transferred to one of the rehabilitation centers of Guantanamo prisons. Polad Sirajov is expected to be released at the end of the next week.
13 June 2006 [12:45]
Earthquake happened in north- west of Azerbaijan at a distance of 75 km at 21.21.
Poland to host event to investigate possibilities of exporting Polish agricultural products to Azerbaijan
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Documents in commercial & economic sector to be inked during Kyrgyz President's visit to Baku
China's used vehicle sales up 7.62 pct in Q1
Azerbaijan eliminates double taxation on income based on agreement with Turkiye
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AvtoVAZ may return to Uzbekistan market