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  • TAP sees flurry of activity as Azeri decision nears

    THESSALONIKI - The Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) remains confident about its chances to deliver gas from Azerbaijan's Shah Deniz field to Europe as the consortium's decision nears, a TAP official said. "There is a lot of activity across the board," TAP's Country Manager for Greece Rikard Scoufias told New Europe early on 20 June on the sidelines of the 7th annual South ...

  • Uzbek Pop Stars Banned From Stage for “Meaningless” Songs

    MOSCOW, June 20 (RIA Novosti) – The culture agency in the authoritarian ex-Soviet state Uzbekistan has banned several pop singers and bands from performing live due to "meaningless" songs that failed to "praise the Motherland," a statement on the agency’s website says. President Islam Karimov’s government strictly regulates the lucrative entertainment ...

  • Asia dominates worlds most expensive office spaces report

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Five of the six most expensive office areas in the world are in Asia, as demand by global companies to locate their outstripped the supply, according to a semiannual report released on Thursday by real estate services company CBRE ...

  • The EU and Azerbaijan Mismatched Objectives

    The EU and Azerbaijan: Mismatched Objectives While EU-Azeri Co-operation on Energy Has Flourished, Azerbaijan's Human-Rights Record Has ...

  • US State Department appreciates Azerbaijan’s anti-trafficking efforts in 2012

    The US State Department has released the 13th annual report on a fight against trafficking in human beings including Azerbaijan in the second category (Tier 2) again. This means that Azerbaijan is making significant efforts in this field, but it does not meet the requirements of the Act of the U.S. Trafficking Victims Protection. The document published on a website of the State Department ...


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Solaris (1972) [Blu-Ray]

Solaris (1972) [Blu-Ray]

Andrei Tarkovskys Solaris is a pulsating, frustrating, enigmatic science fiction masterpiece, a film of great metaphysical weight that demands multiple viewings and an open mind. It is a brooding, introspective work in which the vast reaches of space seem restricted in contrast to the ... ...

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  • Azerbaijan to demonstrate BUK anti-aircraft missile complex

    Azerbaijan to demonstrate "BUK" anti-aircraft missile complex for the first time in military parade. "BUK" anti-aircraft missile complex, being included in the armament of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces a few years ago, is one of the weapon systems to be demonstrated for the first time in the military parade on June 26. APA reports that military vehicles to be ...

  • Nazarbayev Karimov seek water solution

    By Margarita Assenova It was not the first time Central Asia's water disputes have taken a prominent place on the summit agenda of the presidents of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, Nursultan Nazarbayev and Islam Karimov, respectively. But the meeting in Tashkent on June 14-15 attached particular importance to water management, as it became part of the new Strategic Partnership Agreement ...

  • Azerbaijan - Travel ban restricts Azeri journalist from receiving human rights prize

    A travel ban on a prominent Azerbaijani photo and video journalist - imposed just before he planned to travel to receive a prestigious human rights prize - must be lifted immediately, the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) said on 17 June 2013.The ban has prevented Mehman Huseynov from leaving the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, to receive ...

  • GLOBAL MARKETS-Asia assets hammered on China fears Fed upset

    Thu Jun 20, 2013 1:16am EDT * MSCI Asia ex-Japan slides 3.5 pct to 9-month low * U.S. Treasury yields hit 15-mth high, underpin dollar * China "flash" PMI hits 9-month lows * Asian credit market spreads widen 23 points By Chikako Mogi and Wayne Cole TOKYO/SYDNEY, June 20 (Reuters) - Asian markets buckled badly on Thursday after the Federal Reserve heralded an eventual end to free money ...

  • Silent or public diplomacy in Azerbaijan

    What Azeri human-rights defenders and political activists hope will also be discussed is political repression within Azerbaijan, which has increased in recent ...

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