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On the occasion of 23 April, the World Book and Copyright Day and with the support of the Ministry of Education, Nar and Baku Book Center has jointly launched the “Reading Hour” project for schoolchildren. The project aims to enlighten students during the pandemic and help them to spend time …

Iran, United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia were Azerbaijan’s key trade partners among the countries of the Persian Gulf region in January-March of this year, according to the country’s State Customs Committee. The bilateral trade with Iran made $101.2 million, while it amounted to $8.2 million with the UAE, …

SOCAR successfully completed its engagement in the management of Antipinskii Refinery and the oil fields, owned by the subsidiary of the refinery – NKNP LLC. Therewith, SOCAR withdraws as equity shareholder from SOCAR Energoresurs, the joint venture established by SOCAR and Sberbank PJSC. SOCAR decided not to participate as a …

Assistant to the President of Azerbaijan, Head of Foreign Policy Affairs Department of the Presidential Administration Hikmat Hajiyev has responded to a question from AZERTAC. -Some international media outlets state that the United States will take steps to recognize the so-called Armenian genocide. What is your take on that? -Everyone is …

Azerbaijan’s Yashat Foundation that was set up to help families of soldiers killed and injured during the 2020 Karabakh War, has collected over AZN 31 million ($18.2M) as of April 20, the foundation has reported. A total of 14,240 people, including 2,881 martyrs’ family members and 2,735 wounded citizens’ needs …

International Mugham Center has launched a scientific-research programme aimed at promoting Azerbaijan’s mugham art. The project coordinator, Doctor of Philology Gulhuseyn Kazimli and the head of the Research Laboratory for the Restoration and Improvement of Ancient Musical Instrument at the Azerbaijan National Conservatory Mammadali Mammadov visited the National History Museum, Trend Life reported. They viewed a number of tar samples, …

Shah Ismail Khatai’s “Dehname” and “Nasiyatname” poems have been published in Baku. The books were published by “Hədəf Nəşrləri” publishing house on the initiative of the relevant commission under the Azerbaijan Writers’ Union, Day.Az reported. The author of the project is chairman of the commission, writer, associate professor Shamil Sadig. Shah Ismail …