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Romanian presidential advisor Azerbaijan NATO enjoy good relations
'Azerbaijan, NATO are enjoying good relations in different fields'. "Azerbaijan and NATO are enjoying good relations in different fields, particularly in the field of security. Azerbaijan is NATO`s partner in transportation of military equipments to Afghanistan. Azerbaijan is also enjoying cooperation with the European Union (EU), with the Eastern Partnership Program to be ...
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Dollar rebounds in Asia as investors await Bernanke
The dollar turned higher against the yen in Asia on Tuesday as investors waited for testimony by the US central bank chief and a policy meeting of the Japanese central bank. The dollar was changing hands at 102.61 yen in Tokyo morning trade, up from 102.26 yen in New York late Monday. The euro rose to 132.20 yen from 131.76 yen in New York while slipping to $1.2868 from $1.2884. The dollar ...
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Asia stocks muted ahead of Fed meeting
The Fed is currently conducting the third round of massive bond purchases known as quantitative easing to help drive down interest rates and spur lending. But recently improving data on the U.S. economy has led to speculation that the Fed might consider scaling back the program or winding it down earlier than ...
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Azerbaijan hints at Eurovision vote breach
THE head of Azerbaijan's state broadcaster has questioned the vote tally in the Eurovision Song Contest where it embarrassingly gave "nul points" to the entry from neighbouring Russia. The broadcaster is claiming votes for Russia were apparently not taken into account. "It is of serious concern and surprise that at the final count of votes from Azerbaijan, Russia was not given ...
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Centerra Gold risks Kyrgyz collapse
By Fozil Mashrab A legal dispute between the Kyrgyzstan government and Centerra Gold has entered a decisive stage for both sides after the Kyrgyz parliament instructed the government either to renegotiate a 2009 deal with the Canadian mining company or withdraw its mining license, though Kyrgyz Prime Minister Jantoro Satybaldiev recently ruled out any steps to nationalize the mine. The ...
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Tajikistan president visits China
/enpproperty--> China and Tajikistan established a strategic partnership on Monday, which observers said would benefit the two countries' economies and regional stability. ...
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Milli Majlis dismisses reports on bill on Azerbaijan’s occupied lands
A number of media have recently spread reports about the alleged preparation of a bill on the occupied lands of Azerbaijan in Milli Majlis. According to the press service for the Milli Majlis of Azerbaijan, in line with the information in media, there is a plan to submit the bill for discussion in the parliament of Azerbaijan soon. The statement disseminated by the press service for the Milli ...
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Baku expands role in Turkish economy
By Vladimir Socor On March 22 in Copenhagen, the Danish and Turkish prime ministers, Helle Thorning-Schmidt and Recep Tayyp Erdogan, witnessed the signing of agreements between subsidiaries of Danish Moeller-Maersk and Azerbaijan's State Oil Company (SOCAR) to develop a giant port near Izmir in Turkey. The petrochemicals holding Petrokimya (Petkim), majority-owned by SOCAR, is ...
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The right fare in Azerbaijan
importing of 1,000 London taxis to Baku, the construction of an international bus station, and a lucrative road-construction project. The group has received preferential treatment and the interlinked companies owned by the families have taken large shares or even monopolized certain transportation sectors like bus transport, taxis, road construction, and cargo-transportation services in the ...
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Azerbaijan queries Eurovision snub
Azerbaijan says Eurovision made a mistake when it recorded 'nul votes' from the country for Russia's Dina Garipova, above, at the Eurovision Song Contest. Picture: ...
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Flight recorders from crashed U.S. military plane found in Kyrgyzstan
Searchers found flight recorders from a U.S. military plane that crashed in Kyrgyzstan in early May, Kyrgyz's Transport and Communication Ministry said Monday. A ministry spokesman said the recorders were found in debris at the crash site and turned over to U.S. officials for analysis, RIA Novosti reported. The Boeing KC-135 refueling tanker with a three-member crew crashed into a gorge ...
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Fakhriya Khalafova comments on “zero” points for Russia from Azerbaijan
Azerbaijani member of jury Fakhriya Khalafova has commented on "zero" points for Russia from Azerbaijan. The statement made by Head of the Public Television of Azerbaijan Jamil Guliyev that Russia was to get a high score from Azerbaijan has caused a great resonance. Head of the Public Television made a statement on the fact of counting votes of Azerbaijani viewers in Russia's ...
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Azerbaijan flag raised on Mount Everest
19 May 2013 at 6:30 am Nepal time, Murad Ashurly as part of an international team climbed Mount Everest, the highest point of the world (8,848 meters) and set the flag of Azerbaijan there, 1news.az reports. In a telephone conversation Ashurly Murad said that the raging hurricane winds didn't leave the snow and firn in the key segments of the route above 8,600 meters, revealing sloping rock ...
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Tech cooperation week between Guangdong Inner Mongolia planned
/enpproperty--> The first technology cooperation week between Guangdong province and the Inner Mongolia autonomous region will take place in Guangdong's capital, Guangzhou, from May 25 to 31. The annual event will be one of the biggest economic cooperative ventures between the two areas. About 1,000 delegates from Inner Mongolia will visit Guangzhou and several other cities in ...
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MIR Corporation Offers Cultural Tours to Little-known Russia and Central Asia
Offering scheduled and custom journeys to Russia, along the Trans-Siberian and across the Silk Route, MIR's Seattle-based experts design imaginative trips that take travelers far from the ...
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Kyrgyz officials take cultural wrong turn
experiences, and confront the topic of sexual violence. Since American Eve Ensler wrote the play in 1996, it has been performed in over 140 countries and translated into 48 languages. A performance is scheduled for April 12 in Bishkek. The Culture Ministry sent a letter to local media outlets on April 1 saying the Vagina Monologues advocates "unnatural, perverted sex under the slogan of ...
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Azerbaijan works to return citizens detained in Iran
Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry continues the coordination work to get released Azerbaijani scholar Khalida Khalid and her assistant Shamkhal Huseynov, who have been detained in Tabriz earlier. The statement came from spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan Elman Abdullayev at a press conference ...
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Large-scale operations launched in regions of Azerbaijan bordering Russia
The operations are underway on north and north-west of Azerbaijan, APA reports. It involves bodies Azerbaijani and Russian law enforcement agencies. Posts have been created in Zaqatala, residents say. The police check both outgoing and incoming cars. Though Gakh Police Department confirmed the launch of operations, it declined to provide details citing its confidentiality. Guba Police ...
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Iranian FM to trip to Azerbaijan
Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi plans to visit Azerbaijan soon, Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan reports. Salehi had a telephone conversation with his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mammadyarov ...
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Relations with Russia occupy important place in Azerbaijan’s foreign policy
Ali Hasanov visits Astrakhan. Head of the Azerbaijani delegation arriving in Astrakhan for participation in ceremonies on occasion of the 90th jubilee of national leader, Heydar Aliyev, chief of the public policy department of the Presidential Administration of Azerbaijan Ali Hasanov met the governor of Astrakhan, Alexander Zhilkin on 20 May. Special correspondent of AzerTag, governor of the ...
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Russia was to get high score from Azerbaijan – chief of Public TV
Director of the Public Television of Azerbaijan Jamil Guliyev made a statement on the calculation of Azerbaijani votes for Russia in Eurovision 2013 song contest? AzerTag reports. The statement says: "Russia is a country that has much in common with Azerbaijan-these are common interests, common human values and common history. Today, cultural and artistic ties of Azerbaijan and Russia ...
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Mongolia coal mine sparking international interest
The government, after much deliberation, has announced that it will sell a 30% stake in the state-owned company that owns one of the largest coking coal reserves in the world, generating a flurry of interest in the industry.
Tavan Tolgoi is a huge coal mine in the Tsogttsetsii district of the southern Mongolian province of Ömnögovi. It is an extremely rural open pit coal mine that is hundreds of miles from any form of efficient transport and faces many difficulties because of this, the nearest railway, for example, is over 400 kilometers from the mine, making the transport of coal time-consuming, expensive and laborious. Read more
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