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Azerbaijan topped the list of Georgia’s trading partners by exports in the first quarter of 2020, accounting $145.2 million from the total export, Georgia’s National Statistics Office has reported. The share of the top ten trading partners by exports in the total exports of Georgia amounted to 78.1 percent. The …

YARAT Contemporary Art Space presented an urban multimedia project on May 18 with the support of the Baku’s Main Department of Culture. During the event, exclusive collection of artworks was showcased to the public. Viewers were able to learn a lot of new and interesting information about museum collections and …

Turkish President Recep  Erdogan congratulated President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev on the occasion of the Azerbaijan’s national holiday- Republic Day, celebrated on May 28, press-service of President reports on May 21. In his letter, Erdogan noted that Azerbaijan has achieved great successes and continues to develop steadily since the restoration of its …

113 new cases of coronavirus infection have been recorded in Azerbaijan, while 55 patients have been recovered, the Task Force under the Cabinet of Ministers has told AZERTAC. According to the Task Force, born in 1963 and 1966, two Azerbaijani citizens have died after testing positive for COVID-19. “The overall confirmed …

Azerbaijan shut down kindergartens, schools and universities since March 3 as part of the measures to prevent the spread of COVİD-19. Despite the relaxation of the special quarantine regime on May 18, which allowed the re-opening a number of recreational places and lifting the restrictions on residents’ movement, educational institutions …

14-year-old Azerbaijani chess player Gulsanam Agayeva has won a gold medal at the online European Rapid Championship among boys and girls, Azertag reported on May 20. Competing in Group A of the continental championship (among chess players with a rating of up to 1,400), which was attended by about 1,600 …

As part of the joint cooperation between the International Turkic Culture and Heritage Foundation and the Republican Child and Youth Development Center of the Ministry of Education of Azerbaijan, May 18-24, 2020, has been announced the “Week of Museums of the Turkic World”. The program aims to acquaint schoolchildren with …