A community portal about Azerbaijan with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a country in the South Caucasus. Located at the crossroads of Eastern Europe and...
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A community portal about Azerbaijan with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a country in the South Caucasus. Located at the crossroads of Eastern Europe and Southwest Asia, it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to the south. The Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic borders Armenia to the north and east, Iran to the south and west, and Turkey to the northwest. The Nagorno-Karabakh region in the southwest of Azerbaijan Proper declared itself independent from Azerbaijan in 1991, but it is not recognized by any nation.
ONE MORE WEEK NOW, AND OUR BELOVED MINNESOTA WILL BE CELEBRATING ITS 150-YEAR ANNIVERSARY of statehood--even if Governor Pawlenty's zeal in playing along with the Club for Growth's "low taxes=jobs=social stability" meme means a somewhat subdued celebration.
Said meme failing to address how, and by what means, such reductions in taxes would be compensated for vis-a-vis government revenue short of the obviously pathetic answer conservatives always have: Privitisation as tends, alas for it! to... Read Full Story
Robert Sedraki Kocharyan is the second president of the third republic of Armenia. Kocharyan was born in Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh on August 31, 1954. Kocharyan was drawn to politics after joining a movement to cede Nagorno‑Karabakh from the Azerbaijan SSR to the Armenian SSR. His influential political style helped him rise through the ranks of Soviet politics and by 1989, he emerged as a deputy of Armenia's Supreme Soviet. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Nagorno... Read Full Story
Azerbaijan declared its independence from the former Soviet Union on August 30, 1991. Ayaz Mutalibov, former First Secretary of the Azerbaijani Communist Party became the country's first President. After a massacre of Azerbaijanis at Khojali in Nagorno‑Karabakh in March 1992, Mutalibov resigned and the country experienced a period of political instability. Mutalibov returned to power in May 1992, but less than a week later his efforts to suspend scheduled presidential elections and ban... Read Full Story
Azerbaijan displays no interest in the project of construction of Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India gas pipeline, as told Azerbaijan's Minister of Industry and Energy Natiq Aliyev. He said because the pipeline passes a region of tensions, its construction is unreal at present.
"Perhaps, the...
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The repair works at the Baku-Supsa export pipeline took BP-Azerbaijan $53 mln to implement. BP Azerbaijan vice president on land operations Rashid Javanshir said the program of repair and replacement, which lasted for almost 18 months, have completed, which will allow improving technical state of...
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