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Azerbaijan Strikes High Note With Opening Of Gabala Int'l Music Festival

MENAFN · July 9, 2025

(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 9. The 14th Gabala International Music Festival, organized by the Heydar Aliyev Foundation with the support of Azerbaijan's Ministry of Culture, the Baku Music Academy named after Uzeyir...

Baku ID 2025 Concludes: Baku Becomes the Regional Hub for Innovation

Arabian Post · July 9, 2025

On June 19–20, Baku successfully hosted the Baku ID 2025 Innovation Festival. This year’s theme, The Regional Nexus, brought together leading entrepreneurs and technology leaders from the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa,...

Azerbaijan's Military Lyceum Hosts Meeting With Intellectually Gifted Youth (PHOTO)

MENAFN · July 9, 2025

(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 9. A solemn ceremony on the occasion of the discharge of Intellectual Capabilities Units' personnel from military service was held at the Military Lyceum named after Jamshid Nakhchivanski of the...

Azerbaijan vs Russia: why a bilateral quarrel is reverberating across Central Asia

Daryo · July 9, 2025

Azerbaijan vs Russia: why a bilateral quarrel is reverberating across Central Asia The current conflict between Azerbaijan and Russia has three key implications for Central Asian states: Stronger emphasis by Baku on cooperation within the...

® Azercell continues its Cybersecurity Awareness initiative

Azertag · July 9, 2025

Another stage of the “Cyber Education Program for Schoolchildren”, jointly implemented by Azercell and the Azerbaijan Cybersecurity Center, has been successfully completed. This time, the initiative covered the cities of Lankaran, Masalli, and...

Azercell continues its cybersecurity awareness initiative [PHOTOS]

AzerNews · July 9, 2025

Another stage of the “Cyber Education Program for Schoolchildren”, jointly implemented by Azercell and the Azerbaijan Cybersecurity Center, has been successfully completed. This time, the initiative covered the cities of Lankaran, Masalli, and...

Baku Museum Center displays art works by young artists [PHOTOS]

AzerNews · July 9, 2025

Baku Museum Centre, in collaboration with the Azerbaijan State Art Gallery, has hosted the opening of the inaugural exhibition featuring works by young artists, themed "What is Your Name?", Azernews reports. A musical performance by the band East...

MEDIA and Azerconnect Group hold forum celebrating 150 years of Azerbaijani National Press

AzerNews · July 11, 2025

In honor of the 150th anniversary of Azerbaijan’s national press, the Media Development Agency (MEDIA) and Azerconnect Group jointly organised a forum titled “The Media of the Future: Following the Footsteps of ‘Əkinçi’”. Azernews reports that the...

Bulgarian Diaspora in Azerbaijan Condemn Actions of Law Enforcement Agencies in Russian City of Yekaterinburg

Bulgarian News Agency ·

A statement condemning human rights violations during a special operation in the Russian city of Ekaterinburg was sent to BTA by the team of a public association in support of the development of the Azerbai-Bulgarianf friendship. According to the...

Explainer | What was behind the recent spat between Azerbaijan and Russia?

Open Caucasus Media · July 11, 2025

Join the voices Aliyev wants to silence. For over eight years, OC Media has worked with fearless journalists from Azerbaijan — some of whom now face decades behind bars — to bring you the stories the regime is afraid will get out. Help us fuel...

bp supports 150th anniversary celebration of Azerbaijan’s National Press

AzerNews · July 11, 2025

bp is proud to announce its support for a landmark cultural heritage initiative in Azerbaijan, as part of its ongoing social investment efforts in the country, Azernews reports. As a key element of this project, bp has funded the publication of...

Two more Azerbaijani monuments included in UNESCO's World Heritage Tentative List

APA · July 11, 2025

From July 6 to 16, 2025, the 47th session of the World Heritage Committee is being held at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, the capital of France, the Ministry of Culture told APA. In accordance with the session agenda, on July 11, discussions...

Russia offers diverse tourism and education opportunities: Sofia Malyavina

OERLive · July 11, 2025

Russia is actively promoting its diverse tourism and education opportunities to a global audience, with a particular focus on visitors and students from Arab and Asian nations. This initiative was prominently showcased at the St. Petersburg...

What’s Going on with Azerbaijan and Armenia?

The National Interest - Washington D.C. · July 11, 2025

During a particularly raucous White House cabinet meeting—largely overshadowed by the media melee surrounding the disappearance of the client list of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein—was a geopolitical news story of significant importance....

Georgian Police step up drug testing of activists, raising fears of wider political persecution

Open Caucasus Media · July 11, 2025

Join the voices Aliyev wants to silence. For over eight years, OC Media has worked with fearless journalists from Azerbaijan — some of whom now face decades behind bars — to bring you the stories the regime is afraid will get out. Help us fuel...

Average monthly salary in Azerbaijan reached AZN 1,095

APA ·

As of June 1, 2025, the number of wage-employed workers in Azerbaijan's economy was 1,769.2 thousand people, APA-Economics reports, citing the State Statistical Committee. According to the data, 873.0 thousand of them were employed in the public...

ADB to focus on selective, innovative investments in Azerbaijan's non-oil and gas sector

AzerNews · July 11, 2025

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will target its investments in Azerbaijan toward selective, innovative projects aimed at supporting economic growth in the non-oil and gas sector and fostering private sector development, Azernews reports, citing...

Two more Azerbaijani monuments included in UNESCO's Tentative List of World Heritage [PHOTOS]

AzerNews · July 11, 2025

The 47th session of the World Heritage Committee is being held at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France, Azernews reports. In accordance with the session agenda, on July 11, discussions were held regarding the nomination files submitted for...

Attorney reveals gross violations in Ruben Vardanyan’s ongoing trial in Baku

Public Radio of Armenia · July 11, 2025

Attorney and representative of Armenian prisoners of war before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), Siranush Sahakyan, has provided clarifications regarding the egregious violations of Ruben Vardanyan’s rights taking place before the...

Azerbaijan, Saudi Arabia discuss enhancement of military cooperation

Azertag · July 8, 2025

Baku, July 8, AZERTAC The official visit of a delegation led by the First Deputy Minister of Defense – Chief of the General Staff of the Azerbaijan Army, Colonel General Karim Valiyev to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is currently underway, the...