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  • Iran-Azerbaijan Republic ties excellent

    President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called Iran and Azerbaijan Republic relations brotherly and excellent, the official website of the President of Iran reports. In a meeting with Head of Caucasus Muslim Bureau Sheikhol-islam Allahshokour Pashazadeh, President Ahmadinejad said that Tehran and Baku ties are upon brotherhood, religion and love, so our relations are different from those of other ...

  • European Parliament`s members visit Azerbaijan

    Members of the European Parliament from Slovakia Boris Zala and Katarina Nevedalova visited Baku on May 17-18. The visit was organanized by the European Azerbaijan Society. The European Parliament`s members paid tributes to Azerbaijan`s national leader Heydar Aliyev and martyrs. As part of the visit the MEPs met deputy Prime Minister of Azerbaijan, chairman of the State Committe for Refugees ...

  • Azerbaijan`s President meets Greek Prime Minister

    President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has today met Prime Minister of Greece Antonis Samaras who is in Baku for a working visit. They said relations between Azerbaijan and Greece were developing successfully in political, economic, cultural spheres. They stressed good prospects exist for further expansion of bilateral energy cooperation. The sides also underscored the importance of relations ...

  • Asia markets up after US delivers positive data

    BANGKOK (AP) -- Evidence of a steady economic recovery in the U.S. helped push Asian stock markets higher Monday. A gauge of future economic activity issued Friday rose more than expected, a sign that the world's biggest economy is improving. Consumer confidence also rose, offsetting several lackluster reports on slowing manufacturing and an increase in applications for unemployment ...

  • Visiting Tajik president seeks to enhance ties

    /enpproperty--> Tajik President Emomali Rahmon seems to have enough reasons to be confident that his first visit to China under Beijing's new leadership will maintain close bilateral ties and give them "a new and fresh ...


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Blast of Silence [DVD]

Blast of Silence [DVD]

For a no-budget film shot on location in New York City on the sly with a nonactor in the lead role, there is a grand, existential audacity to Allen Baron's Blast of Silence. A particularly dour film noir made several years after the genre had been declared over in the wake ... ...

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  • Iranian ambassador to Azerbaijan Khalida Khalid and her driver released

    Azerbaijani citizens arrested in Iran have been released. The employee of the National Academy of Science of Azerbaijan, researcher and publicist Khalida Khalid and her driver Shamkhal Huseynov have been released. The statement came from Iranian ambassador to Azerbaijan Mohsun Pak Ayin. He said both citizens of Azerbaijan were released on 19 May ...

  • Greek premier arrives in Azerbaijan

    The Prime Minister of Greece, Antonis Samaras arrived in Azerbaijan on 19 May. At the International airport of Heydar Aliyev the premier was welcomed by Azerbaijan’s Minister of Industry and Energy, co-chair of the Azerbaijani-Greek intergovernmental commission Natiq Aliyev and other officials. A short protocol conversation between Antonis Samaras and Natiq Aliyev was held at the salon ...

  • Ethnically diverse Azerbaijan among most tolerant countries

    The ethnically diverse Azerbaijan where titular nation dominates, however, has included the country into the rating of the most tolerant societies. The results of the poll held in more than 80 countries (World Values Survey) were published on the website of The Washington Post. The poll aimed to draw parallels between economic development, as well as ethnic diversity of a country and tolerance ...

  • James Passin the American Who Invested in Mongolia

    The Mongolian Stock Exchange occupies a single room inside a gray building that once housed a children's movie theater, just off Skhbaatar Square in the capital city of Ulaanbaatar. On any given day, it's quieter than the nearby National Library, as 20 or so traders in cubicles click away softly on their laptops. This muted bourse hardly seems a place to make a fortune, but James ...

  • Tajik president arrives for China visit

    Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon arrived in Beijing on Sunday afternoon, kicking off his China visit.During his stay in China, Rakhmon is scheduled to hold talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping and meet with top Chinese legislator Zhang Dejiang and Vice Premier Zhang ...

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