Russia & CIS

In Azerbaijan until May 13 2019 506000 citizens received compensation under the decree by President Ilham Aliyev On additional measures to resolve problem loans of individuals in Azerbaijan Trend reports with reference to the Financial Market Supervisory Authority of Azerbaijan FIMSA

The US State Department on Wednesday ordered the departure of nonemergency government employees from Iraq the US embassy in Baghdad said in a statement Reuters reports

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has received Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Belarus Igor Lyashenko

In the first quarter of 2019 growth in Azerbaijans agriculture amounted to 36 percent and this trend will continue until the end of the year Azerbaijans Minister of Agriculture Inam Karimov said at the opening of Caspian Agro 2019 the 13th Azerbaijan International Agriculture Exhibition in Baku Trend reports May 15

The price of the AZERI LT CIF oil produced at AzeriChiragGunashli block of oil and gas fields amounted to 7467 per barrel at Italian port of Augusta on May 14 which is 043 more than on May 13 a source representing Azerbaijans oil and gas market told Trend on May 15

The Great Steppe Cultural Heritage and Role in the World History international forum will be held at UNESCO headquarters in Paris on May 15 due to which Rafael Huseynov chairman of the Committee on Culture of the Azerbaijani Parliament and Azerbaijani MP Javanshir Feyziyev are currently in France Trend reports

Iran has officially stopped some commitments under a 2015 nuclear deal with world powers following an order from its national security council ISNA news agency reported

Azerbaijan will host the 1st InnoFest Innovation Festival which will consist of 12 events and will be held from May 29 to June 4 Tural Karimli director of Azerbaijans High Tech Park LLC under the Ministry of Transport Communications and High Technologies said at a press conference held for the festival Trend reports

Russian President Vladimir Putin and US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo have discussed the situation with the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty New START and Russia expressed disappointment over US withdrawal from the IntermediateRange Nuclear Forces INF Treaty Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov said on Tuesday TASS reports

Over the past 24 hours Armenian armed forces have violated the ceasefire along the line of contact between Azerbaijani and Armenian troops 23 times using heavy machine guns the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said on May 15

Facebook Inc said on Tuesday it was tightening rules around its livestreaming feature ahead of a meeting of world leaders aimed at curbing online violence in the aftermath of a massacre in New Zealand Reuters reports

VicePresident of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation Leyla Aliyeva has met with Chinese Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Le Yucheng in Beijing

VicePresident of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation Leyla Aliyeva has met with President of the Chinese Peoples Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries Li Xiaolin in Beijing

Azerbaijans pavilion has been presented at the 58th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia

A ceremony has been held to inaugurate Azerbaijans pavilion at the Beijing International Horticultural Exhibition Beijing Expo 2019

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has attended the opening of a new building of the countrys Embassy in Brussels the Kingdom of Belgium

The final document following the meeting of foreign ministers in Brussels dedicated to the 10th anniversary of launching the EU Eastern Partnership program was not planned to be adopted at all Azerbaijani Ambassador to Belgium and Luxembourg Fuad Isgandarov said

The delegation of the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan led by the Commander of the Rocket and Artillery Troops Major General Zahid Huseynov is on a visit to the Republic of Belarus the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry reported on Monday

Azercell which aims to increase the quality of human life through the modern technologies as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy has supported the implementation of various social projects throughout its course of activity

A new project is being prepared in Azerbaijan with the support of the World Bank WB aimed at expanding the selfemployment program Sahil Babayev Minister of Labor and Social Protection of the Population of Azerbaijan told reporters Trend reports