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  • Ansari to undertake four-day visit to Uzbekistan

    Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari will undertake an official visit to Uzbekistan from May 21 to 24. He will be accompanied by a high-level delegation. Minister of State for Environment and Forest Jayanti Natarajan and four Members of Parliament are likely to be part of the delegation. Vice-President Ansari will depart from Delhi on May 21 and reach Tashkent on the same day. On ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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. ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 Mist

The Mist

You have to give it to Frank Darabont: When he makes a movie, he makes it all the way. His last film, The Majestic (2001), was intended to be a heart-warming populist fable in the Frank Capra vein, but he took it so far that its saccharine sentimental sweetness left a bad aftertaste in most ... ...

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    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 ...

  • 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: ...

  • 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 ...

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