President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has signed an Order on measures for ensuring activity of the Baku İnternational Center of Multiculturalism, to widely propagandize multicultural traditions in Azerbaijan. Under the Presidential Order, AZN 800 thousand was allocated to the Baku İnternational Center of Multiculturalism from the state …

Baku City Circuit (BCC), promoter of the Formula 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix, today welcomed the CEO & Executive Chairman of the Formula 1 Group, Chase Carey, to the 2019 Conference on the Benefits of Hosting Major Sports Events (BHMSE) at Baku’s Fairmont Hotel, located within the city’s iconic Flame Towers. …

Azerbaijani gymnast Mikhail Malkin has big chances to win gold at the upcoming World Cup in Trampoline Gymnastics and Tumbling, Adil Huseynzade, head coach of the Azerbaijani team in tumbling, told Trend. “We hope that Malkin will be fully ready for the competitions within two weeks,” Huseynzade added. “The competition …

This year Azerbaijan has again become the general sponsor of the Prodexpo-2019 exhibition, which will present the national stand Made in Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan will present a wide range of national products at the 26th international exhibition of food products, beverages and raw materials for their production ProdExpo-2019, the trade representation of …

A large-scale meeting on the results of 2018 was held at the head office of AzerGold CJSC. Opening the meeting, Chairman of the Board of AzerGold CJSC Zakir Ibrahimov spoke about the reforms carried out under the leadership of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and the development of the non-oil sector. …

Representatives of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces are also among the military servicemen of NATO member and partner states in the Basic Mountain Training Winter Courses underway at the Sachkhere Mountain Training School after COL Besik Kutateladze (BMTWC), the Georgia’s Minister of Defense told AZERTAC correspondent. Held within the frameworks of the NATO …

Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy (ADA) under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan and the Hennadii Udovenko Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine, as well as the Moldova`s National Diplomatic Institute within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration have signed a memorandum of cooperation. The event was held as a part …

“Cholchu” (The Steppe Man), a movie by Azerbaijani filmmaker Shamil Aliyev was named “The Film of the January Month” and got several awards at the L’Age d’Or International Arthouse Film Festival. The Azerbaijani film was also nominated for the “Pıgeon D’or Awards”. The awarding ceremony will be held in mid-2018 …

Azerbaijan has temporarily restricted poultry and animal meat imports from some regions of Russia, Trend reports with reference to Azerbaijan’s Food Safety Agency. Earlier, the World Organization for Animal Health has identified cases of Newcastle disease in Russia’s Krasnodar Krai, as well as foot-and-mouth disease in Russia’s Khabarovsk Krai regions. …

A meeting with the Special Representative of the European Union for Central Asia, Peter Burian, was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, Trend reports referring to the Turkmen foreign ministry. The parties discussed the initiatives of Turkmenistan and Romania on the construction of the “Caspian Sea-Black Sea” …