Saturday 19th May, 2012

• Azerbaijan produces over 14m tonnes of oil

  News.Az

  During the first four months of 2012, Azerbaijan produced 14.8m tone of oil and 6,0bn cubic meters of marketable gas. During the similar period of 2011, oil production in the country made up ...

• 'Azerbaijan People’s Republic included Karabakh, Zangezur and Nakhchivan'

  News.Az

  The City Hall of the American city of Portland (Maine) has adopted a proclamation. In anticipation of the anniversary of the formation of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (ADR) - Republic Day ...

• Azerbaijan increases volume of construction work

  News.Az

  The volume of construction work in Azerbaijan from January to April, 2012 was increased 42.9% in comparison to the previous period. The State Statistics Committee ...

• 'Azerbaijan in Karabakh conflict has the same rights as Russia in Chechnya'

  News.Az

  It should be noted that the strong ties between Azerbaijan and Russia grew in the first period of Putin's presidency. It was at that time when not just business and friendly relations between ...

• 'No one has right to point to Azerbaijan how to defend its values'

  News.Az

  The people of Azerbaijan is a valuable element of the Islamic Ummah, and no one has the right to point how to defend its values, as the country does it even without without assistance. The ...

• Asia market volatility prompts warnings

  General Sources

  "We've seen the yen appreciate rapidly from the low-80s to the mid-79 range over a short period of time, those are rough movements," Japanese Finance Minister Jun Azumi said at a ...

• IHT Rendezvous: Mongolia Wrestles With Dinosaurs, NATO and Politics

  New York Times

  Squeezed between geopolitical giants Russia and China, Mongolia has long struggled for independence and visibility.Two events on Sunday promise to raise the global profile of the country of just 2.8 ...

• Anatolia gas link wins backers

  Asia Times

  By Vladimir Socor Interest is growing among Western gas producers in Azerbaijan, transit companies, and European importers in the Trans-Anatolia project for Caspian gas to Europe. Initiated by ...

• Pepsico milk lead sours in Russia

  Asia Times

  By John Helmer MOSCOW - If Russia's Agriculture Minister Elena Skrynnik went to the trouble last week of decrying adulteration of Russia's milk, then one thing is certain - the ...

• Nabucco pipeline takes another twist

  Asia Times

  By Vladimir Socor The consortium seeking to build the proposed Nabucco gas pipeline from the Caspian Sea to Europe has decided to reconfigure its project for a new role: a European continuation ...

• Trans-Caspian pipelineremains distant prospect

  Asia Times

  Turkmenistan to Azerbaijan to feed in gas from the Central Asian ...

• Black Sea sliver may decide Nabucco fate

  Asia Times

  By Vladimir Socor On March 22 and 25, Romania's Foreign Affairs Minister Cristian Diaconescu announced on television that a "legal dispute" ("litigium") exists between ...

• Mavrodi's Ponzi comebackseeks financial apocalypse

  Asia Times

  By Claire Bigg His company once raked in millions of dollars a day. He owned enough cash to pack several rooms full with banknotes. He was elected to the Russian State Duma and even attempted a ...

• Azerbaijan to be in the same group with Russia and Iran in world wrestling cup

  News.Az

  The world cup in Greco-Roman wrestling which will involve the national team of Azerbaijan takes off in Saransk. Under the draw, our team fell in group B together with the national teams of ...

• Population of Azerbaijan increases expenses for consumer goods purchase

  News.Az

  The population of Azerbaijan purchased consumer goods in the trading facilities of the country in the amount of AZN 5,343,800,000 in January-April of 2012. This is a growth of 9.1% over the same ...

• Azerbaijan, Georgia have no problems in Keshikchi dag

  News.Az

  "Azerbaijan and Georgia have no problems over "Keshikchi dag". Currently, Azerbaijan is working on the delimitation and demarcation of the border with Georgia, including the area ...

• Mongolia wants dinosaur auction halted

  UPI

  Mongolian officials are asking a U.S. auction house to halt the Sunday sale of a Tyrannosaurus skeleton, suggesting it was illegally smuggled from their nation. Heritage Auctions in Dallas has made ...

• Atal Bihari Vajpayee Centre in Mongolia upgraded

  New Kerala

  New Delhi, May 18 : The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Friday said it has just completed a major upgradation and modernization of the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Centre for Excellence in Information ...

• Independent UN rights expert urges greater effort to eradicate torture in Tajikistan

  UN News Centre

  The United Nations independent expert on torture today said he was encouraged by recent legal changes in Tajikistan, including the introduction of a new provision defining torture and specifying ...

• Jeff Burbank: With Eurovision 2012 Around the Corner, Azerbaijan Gets Much Unwanted Attention

  Huffington Post

  Up to a year ago, Azerbaijan, an oil-and-gas powerhouse about the size of the state of Maine, was a little-known former Soviet republic on the Caspian Sea just north of Iran. Soon, however, the eyes ...

• Mongolia - Member of Parliament files civil lawsuit against two newspapers

  IFEX

  Mongoliin Unen, Newspaper Ugluunii sonin, Newspaper (Globe International/IFEX) - Member of Parliament Kh. Battulga from the Democratic Party has filed a civil lawsuit ...

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