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  • Kazakhstan defeat India in volleyball tourney

    Kazakhstan defeated India 3-2 in the China International men's volleyball tournament here. Kazakhstan won 25-12, 23-25, 24-26, 25-20, 15-7 Wednesday, reports Xinhua. "Our team is so young that they didn't cooperate well and made mistakes, but I am satisfied with their performance," said Gilyazutdinov Rafael, assistant coach of Kazakhstan team. "Our setup was bad today and that is why we lost ...

  • China to buy gas from Turkmenistan

    China will import gas from the world's second largest gas reserve in the Central Asian republic of Turkmenistan. Kakageldy Abdullayev, CEO of Turkmenistan's national gas company Turkmengaz, said the Galkynysh field will be used to build up Turkmen gas exports to China. The field is expected to produce 25 billion cubic metres of natural gas per year for China, with Turkmenistan's total gas ...

  • Azerbaijan US have strong partnership – Obama

    United States President Barack Obama has congratulated Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on upcoming Republic Day. Congratulation posted by the official website of the president says the following: "Dear Mr. President, I congratulate you and the people of Azerbaijan on Republic day On May 28, 1918, independent Azerbaijan became an example for the international community as a ...

  • Trade turnover between Azerbaijan and Russia exceeds USD 904m

    In January-April this year, the trade turnover between Azerbaijan and Russia amounted to USD 904.315m. The State Customs Committee of Azerbaijan reports that during the reporting period, Russia received products worth USD 426.696m, which corresponds to 5.07% of the total export of Azerbaijan. During the same period, imports were in the amount of USD 477.618m, representing 15.17% of total ...

  • No problem to raise pensions salaries in Azerbaijan – minister

    "Necessary funds for the rise in salaries and pensions have been provided," the minister said. There is no problem in raising pensions and salaries in Azerbaijan and I think that we all will witness such a move in 2013, the statement came from Finance Minister Samir Sharifov while addressing the meeting of the economic policy committee of the parliament which discussed the bill ...


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Wild Strawberries (Smultronstället) [DVD]

Wild Strawberries (Smultronstället) [DVD]

Like all of his films, Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries (Smultronstllet) is a deeply personal work. It is of little surprise that Bergman used it as the starting place for his 1990 memoirs, Images, which he wrote at the age of 70, and in which he noted, after having screening 40 of his films over the course of a year, "I suddenly realized that my movies had mostly been conc ... ...

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  • Azerbaijan gave Dina over 2000 votes. Where are these voices

    Azerbaijani Ambassador to Russia Polad Bulbuloglu has commented on the disappearance of votes from Azerbaijan for the Russian singer in Eurovision 2013 contest. "We wanted to make the Russian public know that this is either a technical failure or elementary provocation," he said in an interview to Komsomolskaya Pravda. "Under the court decision, all three of our providers ...

  • Russia Tajikistan in lopsided alliance

    By Shavkat Kasymov Despite the optimism with which Tajik government officials hailed their country's accession to the World Trade Organization in January, there is a need for a more realistic assessment of the potential economic prospects in regards to membership of the world trading community. Tajikistan is a remittance-dependent country with strong political affinity to Russia, ...

  • Exact date of beginning of Ramadan month in Azerbaijan made public

    The exact date of the beginning of Ramadan month in Azerbaijan has been made public. Deputy director of the Shamakhi-based Tusi Astrophysical Observatory of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS) Khidir Mikayilov ...

  • Azerbaijan to decide on routes of gas supplies to Europe in June

    Azerbaijan is to decide about routes of its gas supplies to European market in June, which will significantly raise the role of the country in ensuring the European energy security. The statement came from US ambassador to Baku Richard Morningstar at a conference in Baku 'Emerging challenges: raising energy security in the 21st century'. As for the provision of energy security, the ...

  • Azerbaijan toughens fines for mistreating animals

    According to changes to the article 126 of Code of Administrative Violations of Azerbaijan adopted at today's meeting of the Agrarian Policy Committee of the parliament, the fines for violation of rules of the treatment of animals in the country increased at least 10 times. These changes are the result of a desire to bring national legislation into line with the European Convention for the ...

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