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20 May 2006 [10:36]
Delegation led by Azerbaijani Education Minister Misir Mardanov will pay an official visit to Iran at the invitation of Iranian Minister for Science, Research and Technology Mahammadmehdi Zahed from May 22 to 26.
20 May 2006 [10:29]
The name of Baku Diplomacy University will be changed to Baku Eurasia University.
20 May 2006 [10:26]
Lawyers for Azerbaijani ex-minister for economic development Farhad Aliyev appeal against the decision to prolong his imprisonment term for five more months.
19 May 2006 [19:43]
The editor in chief of an opposition newspaper in Azerbaijan has been attacked and severely beaten up.
19 May 2006 [19:29]
Azerbaijan's Youth and Sport Minister Azad Rahimov held a press conference on the occasion of the 100th day of his appointment to this post today.
19 May 2006 [19:09]
Students from Iranian Azerbaijan province at Tehran University protesting against university authorities as seen in the photos.
19 May 2006 [17:07]
May 19 President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received cellist Yo-Yo Ma, who also is the Artistic Director and Founder of the Silk Road project.
19 May 2006 [14:15]
Match between national football teams of Moldova and Azerbaijan ended in a goalless draw May 18 in Chisinau. The match was seen as a build-up to the European championship qualification matches.
19 May 2006 [13:26]
The Days of Azerbaijan will be held in Hungary on May 23-24.
19 May 2006 [13:18]
The Alban-Udin Christian church will be opened in the western Gabala District on Friday, according to the State Committee for Work with Religious Associations.
19 May 2006 [13:14]
Azerbaijan's non-governmental organizations can hold monitoring and familiarize with the living conditions of detainees held in Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba.
19 May 2006 [10:23]
Yeni Xeber paper editor-in-chief arrested while taking bribe, Prosecutor’s Office press informs.
19 May 2006 [10:14]
Azerbaijani singers held press conference today protesting against President's recent executive order on awarding group of art figures honorary titles.
19 May 2006 [09:43]
Vasif Talibov, Chairman of Supreme Assembly of the Autonomous Republic of Nakhchivan in Azerbaijan issued decree on ratification of Regulations on Emergencies Ministry of the autonomous republic, the Ministry's structure and staff.
19 May 2006 [09:26]
Veterans of the World War II Mammad Huseynov and Aziz Gambarov have been awarded by Norwegian king with medal "Participant of Norwegian liberation."
19 May 2006 [08:32]
Laszlo Cselenyi, president of Hungarian Duna TV has written to President Ilham Aliyev.
19 May 2006 [01:21]
Republic of Ireland U-21s progress in UEFA tournament.
18 May 2006 [20:23]
Center for Public Relations of the Ministry of National Security announced an organized group engaged in smuggling narcotics along Iran-Azerbaijan-Russia route had been apprehended as a result of the measures taken by the Ministry against illegal drug trafficking.
18 May 2006 [20:00]
About 30 Azerbaijani students of the Zenjan University staged a protest action related to the caricature published by the "Iran" newspaper of IRI.
18 May 2006 [18:42]
Interfax-Azerbaijan has opened its first regional bureau, located in Nakhichevan, capital of Azerbaijan's Nakhichevan autonomous republic, and it plans to set up bureaus in other parts of the country in the long term.
18 May 2006 [18:40]
Elchin Behbudov, head of Azerbaijan Committee Against Tortures intends to monitor the secret prisons, including Shusha prison established by Armenians in Azerbaijan's territories under Armenian occupation.
18 May 2006 [18:20]
An Azerbaijani, who was involved in women trafficking in the United Arab Emirates, has been arrested.
18 May 2006 [17:58]
UEFA has punished Azerbaijan's national football team.
18 May 2006 [16:20]
Azeri sportsmen led by Oktay Mehdiyev, Vice President of the Kickboxing and Muay Thai Federation of Azerbaijan achieved brilliant results at the World Kickboxing Championship, which brought together 700 sportsmen of 35 countries of world in Loutraki /Greece/.
18 May 2006 [14:39]
The US Embassy to Azerbaijan has announced Humphrey fellowship program 2007-2008 for mid-career professional development in the United States.
18 May 2006 [13:34]
Azeri national team comprising of Ravil Guliyev ( 60kg), Ramil Gasimov ( 66kg), Elnur Mammadli ( 73kg), Mehman Azizov ( 81kg), Elkhan Mammadov ( 90kg), Gadir Gadirov ( 100 kg), Nigar Jabbarova ( 52kg) and Kifayat Gasimova (57 kg) will attend the European Judo Championship to take place May 26-28 in Helsinki /Finland/, Azerbaijan Judo Federation said.
18 May 2006 [13:19]
Embassy of the Kingdom of Norway in Baku has arranged formal reception on the national holiday of Norway - Day of Constitution.
18 May 2006 [12:09]
A series of films on the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict over Nagorno Karabakh screened in a British educational institution have stirred a scandal.
18 May 2006 [11:52]
Azerbaijan's First Lady, President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, Mehriban Aliyeva, has been awarded the "Envoy of Love and Friendship" award in the Turkic World.
18 May 2006 [10:33]
Minister of Health Ogtay Shiraliyev has signed an order on providing execution of "State Program for thalassemia and hemophilia".
18 May 2006 [10:29]
Experts form Caspian states for the Caspian Sea ecology are meeting in Turkmenistan's capital, Ashgabat.
18 May 2006 [09:57]
World famous violoncello master Sergey Slovachevski will perform concert in Azerbaijani State Philharmonic hall named after Muslim Magomayev May 27.
18 May 2006 [09:34]
FIFA has published national teams' new rating list.
18 May 2006 [09:08]
Tofik Bakhramov's decision on 1966 World Cup still holds a title of the most controversial decision ever made on a football pitch.
18 May 2006 [08:56]
"EEFA has determined the venue where Azerbaijan and Armenia national teams will play in selection stage of European championship to be organized in Austria and Switzerland in 2008. But continent football organization leadership demands Azerbaijan as well as Armenia football organization leadership not to give information about that." Football Federation President of Armenia Ruben Ayrapetyan has told in his interview to "Aykakan Jimanak".
18 May 2006 [08:36]
Academic Eldar Salayev's family and human rights defenders are going to re-appeal official bodies for his treatment abroad.
18 May 2006 [08:02]
Today one of the topical problems is related to geographical names, State Land and Cartography Committee chairman Garib Mamadov has told.
17 May 2006 [21:08]
May 17, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received at Presidential Palace BP’s Executive Vice President Andrew Inglish.
17 May 2006 [20:59]
17 May 2006 [20:57]
President of Azerbaijan fired Rafael Rasulov from the position of head of the Executive Power of Sharur region of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic.
17 May 2006 [16:54]
165 000 hectares of lands have been illegally seized in Azerbaijan so far.
17 May 2006 [15:40]
Azerbaijani karateka Ilgar Garayev (65 kg) won gold medal in the World Goju Ryu Karate Championship in Canada.
17 May 2006 [15:13]
Ministry of Education applied to Justice, Taxes Ministries for stopping activity of Independent Azerbaijan University.
17 May 2006 [14:56]
President of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS), academician Mahmud Kerimov met with well known surgeon, member of the Parisian International Academy of Surgery doctor Javad Hayat.
17 May 2006 [14:53]
The Education Ministry has already drawn up a plan on higher schools entrance.
17 May 2006 [14:48]
Georgia and Azerbaijan Interior ministries representatives and border regions police offices leaders met on May 17.
17 May 2006 [13:54]
66 Appeals have been entered to the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection since ratification of the document on addressed social aid.
17 May 2006 [13:21]
The Azeri embassy in Moscow has sent a diplomatic note to the Russian Foreign Ministry expressing protest at the invitation of an Nagorno karabakh delegation to a tourism exhibition in Moscow on May 11-14.
17 May 2006 [13:13]
A parliament member says work has been tackled to investigate the mass killings of Jews by Armenian Dashnaks [members of the nationalist party] in Azerbaijan's northern Guba district that took place at the dawn of the last century.
17 May 2006 [12:33]
The State Statistical Committee told that according to statistics there are 66 crimes for every 100 people.
17 May 2006 [09:16]
An aide to Azerbaijan's president on Tuesday denied a report that a centuries-old ethnic Armenian cemetery had been destroyed.
17 May 2006 [09:11]
The Republic of Ireland Under 21 team will take on Azerbaijan this Thursday in Buckley Park, kick off is at 7.15.
17 May 2006 [08:05]
"Media outlets are exaggerating the recent increasing immigration of Iranian citizens to Azerbaijan. There is no such phenomenon at all," Azerbaijan's Interior Minister Ramil Usubov told journalists.
16 May 2006 [20:45]
The heavy rains caused floods in Azerbaijan's north-western regions Balaken and Zagatala and washed away some villages in the past several days.
16 May 2006 [20:43]
"Thousands of compatriots left Georgia for Azerbaijan in past 10 years," said Ramil Usubov, Internal Affairs Minister in his speech to the media.
16 May 2006 [20:40]
Today opening Ceremony of Azerbaijan Interior Ministry Migration Organization Administrative building held.
16 May 2006 [20:26]
"The 13 May partial re-run of parliamentary elections was conducted in high level in Azerbaijan, and there were no serious irregularities during repeat parliamentary elections to overshadow democratic elections," said Mazahir Panahov, chairman of the Central Election Commission in a meeting today.
16 May 2006 [20:23]
Armenians have completely destroyed the water pipeline from the Ziyaret Mountain in Azerbaijan's occupied region Khojavend, which supplied Tugh village people with drinkable water.
16 May 2006 [20:19]
Muslim leaders in Azerbaijan called for protests against the film "The Da Vinci Code" Tuesday, saying the film version of the best-selling book insulted all believers.
16 May 2006 [12:42]
European Sambo Championship among youth and juniors, which brought together over 500 sportsmen of 40 countries of world will take place May 17 in Greece.
16 May 2006 [10:46]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed order on granting individual pension and presidential award to a group of art figures.
16 May 2006 [10:35]
New branch will be excavated to decrease flood danger created by Kyur.
16 May 2006 [10:17]
Members of the Coordination Council of Russian Azerbaijani Youths (CCRA), post-graduate of the Moscow State University Rufet Azizov and senior student of tourism economy faculty of the University Orkhan Akbarov visited APA Information Agency.
16 May 2006 [09:54]
The U.S. Embassy is pleased to announce that world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble will visit Baku this week.
16 May 2006 [09:22]
Ex-Minister Farhad Aliyev’s imprisonment term has been prolonged for 5 more months, decision was adopted in Nasimi region Court chaired by Mammadali Zulfugarov.
16 May 2006 [09:18]
The Nasimi district Court in Baku reviewed the appeal on prolongation of the former Health Minister Ali Insanov's imprisonment.
16 May 2006 [09:05]
International scientific-theoretical conference-Tolerance in Islam organized by the Azerbaijan National Academy of Science (ANAS) in cooperation with Caucasian Muslims Office (CMO) started yesterday.
16 May 2006 [08:43]
The required condition for the activity of beaches in Azerbaijan is strict.
16 May 2006 [08:33]
"I have been illegally put into prison by Georgian authorities for two years for groundless reasons. I went on hunger strike for three times protesting against my illegal arrest, pressures in the prison and at last, Georgian intelligence services provocations against Azerbaijanis," Gajar Huseynoiv, Azerbaijani correspondent of newspaper Yeni Dushunje (New way of thinking), banned in Georgia, member of Georgia Labor Party wrote in the letter to the National Assembly of Georgian Azerbaijanis (NAGA).
15 May 2006 [18:28]
Azerbaijani top chess player Teymur Radjabov can become a world chess champion next year by winning Bulgarian Veselin Topalov.
15 May 2006 [18:20]
Statements claiming the presence of radical Shiism in Azerbaijan may lead to confrontations between various religious movements, the Islamic Party of Azerbaijan said in a press release on Monday.
15 May 2006 [16:12]
An event entitled "Role of Israel in International Relations, Azerbaijan-Israel Relations" was held at the Azerbaijan University of Languages.
15 May 2006 [16:07]
"Training of staff is in much higher level in Azerbaijani Armed Forces compared with that in Georgia and Armenia. It was many times mentioned in international events," said head of Azerbaijani Armed Forces Military Academy, Colonel Najaf Gambarov.
15 May 2006 [13:55]
The Supreme Court's Plenary Session satisfied the complaint made by a life-term prisoner in Gobustan jail Samir Hajiyev, who applied for commuting his punishment to 15-year of imprisonment.
15 May 2006 [11:51]
The inauguration of Azerbaijani composer Uzeyir Hajibeyov's monument is expected to take place in Vienna, Minister of Culture and Tourism Abulfaz Garayev said.
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