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According to the combat training plan for 2022, the Azerbaijani Army conducts training-methodological sessions with the participation of commanders and the deputy commanders of battalions and divisions, the Ministry of Defense told AZERTAC. “The sessions evaluate the knowledge and skills of the officers, their physical fitness, as well as, improve theoretical …

“Azerbaijan’s state energy firm SOCAR aims to achieve net zero carbon emissions in early 2022 in extracting oil and gas at its own sites,” SOCAR Vice President on environmental affairs Rafiga Huseynzade told Reuters. “We have been working on that from 2010 within the framework of the World Bank’s Global …

Israeli “i24 News” TV channel has broadcast a program highlighting a genuine friendship between the Jewish and Azerbaijani peoples. Speaking at the program, President of the US-based Foundation for Ethnic Understanding Rabbi Marc Schneier emphasized that Azerbaijan, which hosts the largest Jewish community among the Muslim countries, is a model …

Azerbaijani Ambassador to Pakistan Khazar Farhadov has met with Adviser to the Pakistani Prime Minister for Commerce and Investment Abdul Razak Dawood. Khazar Farhadov hailed the role of both countries` leadership in developing Azerbaijan-Pakistan relations. Touching upon the necessity of further strengthening economic ties between the two countries, Farhadov stressed …

The poem of “Khosrow and Shirin” by great Azerbaijani poet and thinker Nizami Ganjavi contains the following lines: “The bow, like Moses, groans and glows; the musician silently hears out the singer.” These lines refer to the musical instrument kamancha. By the end of the 1st millennium, the bowed stringed …

Fuad Ibrahimov has assumed the duties of the head of Natural Gas Business Unit of SOCAR Turkey as of January 1, 2022, Trend reports with reference to Turkish media. Reportedly, Fuad Ibrahimov will be responsible for the management of Bursagaz, Kayserigaz and SOCAR Enerji Ticaret companies operating under the unit. Natural Gas …

In 2022, the Azerbaijani people will celebrate the 270th anniversary of Shusha the foundation of which was laid by Azerbaijani Karabakh khanate’s Panahali khan in 1752. Taking into account this glorious history and in order to accelerate the restoration of Shusha, President Ilham Aliyev declared 2022 as the “Year of …