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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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Solaris (1972) [Blu-Ray]

Solaris (1972) [Blu-Ray]

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  • The EU and Azerbaijan Mismatched Objectives

    In this context of a rapidly deteriorating human-rights situation and growing government hostility toward independent and opposition voices, Aliev's determination to seek enhanced relations with the EU based on "equal partnership", without human-rights conditions, is not surprising. But it should be completely unacceptable to the ...

  • China Russia and Uzbekistan drop on U.S. human trafficking list

    The U.S. State Department Wednesday downgraded China, Russia and Uzbekistan on its human trafficking list, meaning they could face sanctions. The department promoted Azerbaijan, Congo-Brazzaville and Iraq from its Tier 2 Watch List to Tier 2. China, Russia and Uzbekistan were moved from the watch list to Tier 3 on the four-tier system. The shifts came as, for the first time, the department was ...

  • 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 ...

  • Asia Headed For Losses After Bernanke

    Asian stock markets are poised to open lower on Thursday, falling in step with Wall Street shares after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke hinted that the central bank could moderate the pace of its bond purchases later this year. Japan's ...

  • 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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