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Azerbaijan was featured at the “Los Angeles Times Festival of Books” held on April 13-14 at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles. Attended by over 150,000 people, this is the largest book festival in the United States. The Azerbaijan booth was put together by the Consulate General …

Favorable conditions created for foreign investors in Azerbaijan attract the businessmen to invest in various spheres in the country. Pakistani pharmaceutical company WnsFeild Pharmaceuticals eyes to enter the Azerbaijani market, said Zafar Balok, director of the company’s Sales and Export Department. He noted that the Azerbaijan-Turkey-Pakistan Forum, which was held in Baku …

Celebrations of Turkey’s 41st Children’s Day began on Sunday in the Black Sea province of Samsun with the participation of children from 40 countries, Anadolu Agency reports. The children will stay in Samsun to take part in activities including folk dancing through April 20, when they will proceed to the …

Azerbaijan’s national air carrier has held a presentation in Riyadh entitled “Azerbaijan through the eyes of a falcon”, which presented new routes of Azerbaijan Airlines to a number of cities in Saudi Arabia. The event was attended by a delegation of AZAL, led by Vice-President Eldar Hajiyev, representatives of the …

By the 11th and 12th centuries, Baku had become a large commercial seaport on the Caspian Sea. For safety reasons, the Shirvanshah dynasty initiated a large-scale building project to strengthen the city’s fortification works. A fortress, protected with three rows of walls, was built around Baku, and also a deep …

The organizers of ANIMAFILM Baku International festival held a meeting with the pupils of Landau School in Baku. The children were happy to host Elchin Hami Akhundov, the well-known animation director of Azerbaijan. He took this opportunity to explain the process of creating animated films to the schoolchildren and answered …

There are many notable Azerbaijani composers who played a major role in shaping our world through their contributions to music. With nearly 110 musical pieces, Gara Garayev was undoubtedly one of the most highly regarded national composers. His originality and his ability to unveil the meaning and emotions through music has left …

By Rashid Shirinov Azerbaijan intends to significantly increase hazelnut production in 2018, according to the Azerbaijan Hazelnut Exporters Consortium. Its representative noted that the Consortium plans to increase production by almost 48 percent. “We plan to produce 60,000-65,000 tons of hazelnut in 2018, which is much more than last year. …

The coastal Astara region of Azerbaijan is lushly forested and is known especially for its citrus fruits. Rising rapidly behind this narrow fringe, the first phalanx of wooded hills are vaguely evocative of South-East Asia with big slightly sparse tree cover on thin, red soil. Behind are folds of forested …

The English version of “The Gregorian Church as a tool of espionage against the Safavid state (17th-early 18th centuries)” book by head of the Azerbaijani Presidential Administration, academician Ramiz Mehdiyev has been published at the Azerbaijan State Translation Centre (AzSTC). The book is the logical continuation of the academician Ramiz …