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The Japanese ajmedia.jp news portal has widely covered Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev`s meeting with President of the European Council Charles Michel and Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan in Brussels and its results. The articles also highlighted the statement of European Council President Charles Michel following the second trilateral meeting …

Located thirty kilometres from the city of Goygol, in Azerbaijan’s Goygol National park, Lake Goygol is famous for its stunning, crystal-clear water. Sitting 1,500 metres above sea level surrounded by lush forests in the Lesser Caucasus Mountains, many consider Goygol (meaning Blue Lake) to be Azerbaijan’s most beautiful lake. The …

An additional freight transport lane has been opened along the border with Azerbaijan at the Yarag-Kazmalyar checkpoint in Dagestan,” Tass has reported, quoting the press service of the North Caucasus Customs Administration (NCTU) reported on April 6. “At the Yarag-Kazmalyar multilateral automobile checkpoint on the border with Azerbaijan, an additional lane for the …

Pakhlava, perhaps the most famous of the national sweets. There are many variations of pakhlava in Azerbaijan – Baku, Guba, Shaki, Ganja, and each has its own characteristics. For example, the most common, classical Baku pakhlava is in the form of diamonds, on the surface of each of which a …

The Karabakh carpets known under the name of Karabakh were and are still made at all carpet-weaving workshops across Azerbaijan. Depending on the location, the carpets were given different names but the art experts referred to all of them as Karabakh. This composition of the carpets, woven in Susa in …

Azerbaijani Minister of Energy Parviz Shahbazov has met with the Mission led by Regional Director for infrastructure of the World Bank Group Charles Joseph Cormier, who is on a visit to Baku. At the meeting, it was noted that one of the important directions of the World Bank’s multifaceted cooperation …

In Karabakh cuisine, meat, preferably lamb, is used more than any other ingredient. Local sheep are valued higher than other breeds. It is called “kasma goyun” (slaughtered sheep) or “atlik” (meat), i.e. “table or meat mutton”. If other breeds yield “pure meat” – from 48 to 52 per cent, the …