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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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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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Billy Liar [DVD]

Billy Liar [DVD]

John Schlesinger's Billy Liar was released in 1963 at the tail end of the British New Cinema movement that had begun in the late 1950s with Jack Clayton's Room at the Top (1958) and Tony Richardson's Look Back in Anger (1959). This outpouring of social-realist dramas (sometimes referred to as "kitchen sink dramas"), all shot in black-and-white and usually taking placed in ind ... ...

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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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • China Tajikistan establish strategic partnership

    Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) shakes hands with Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon at the signing of a joint announcement to establish a strategic partnership, after their talks in Beijing, capital of China, May 20, 2013. Photo: XinhuaChina and Tajikistan established a strategic partnership on Monday, pledging to boost bilateral cooperation.The announcement was made during talks held between ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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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