The 2020 has become a year of fantastic changes in Azerbaijan. The country has regained its territorial integrity, lost during the first Karabakh war with Armenia. The results of the second Karabakh war led to an unprecedented consolidation of the Azerbaijani society, capable of prompting Azerbaijan to strengthen significantly its statehood and security. Azerbaijan has […]

On December 27, Armenian terrorists committed another provocation in the village of Tug in Khojavend region. As a result, a sergeant of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces Elmir Rail oglu was killed and a soldier Aliyev Emin Suleiman oglu was wounded.   There are several reasons for this and other provocations that had been committed earlier. […]

New year has brought some corrections in the internal discussion in Armenia on who is to blame and what to do.   The calls of all institutions of society and the state to dismiss Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan for the defeat in the Karabakh war, which rocked Armenia until December 31, on New Year’s Eve […]

In the past day, 341 cases of coronavirus infection were recorded in Azerbaijan, while 4,473 people were recovered and 29 died. This was announced on January 1 by the Operational Headquarters under the Cabinet of Ministers.   The total number of infected people in Azerbaijan was 219,041 cases, of which 188,280 were cured and 2,670 […]

On January 1, a resident of Azerbaijan Babayev Zabil (1981) was blown up by an anti-personnel mine in the Fizuli region.   He was taken to hospital, where doctors amputated both of his legs, but his life could not be saved, according to a joint information from the General Prosecutor’s Office, the Ministry of Internal […]

Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence has releases video footage of the Khojahan village of the Gubadli region, APA reports.   Source: Azeri-Press News Agency

Azerbaijani grandmaster Teymur Rajabov has reached the final of the online blitz chess tournament Airthings Masters, Apasport.az reports.   The 34-year-old chess player won the right by removing Russian Daniil Dubov from the competition in the semifinals.   In the final, Rajabov’s opponent will be Levon Aronian (Armenia), who won Maxime Vashie-Lagrave (France).   Dubov […]

OPEC+ countries are beginning to gradually increase oil production after nine months of tough restrictions, APA reports citing TASS.   The rate of production increase will not exceed 0.5 mln barrels per day (bpd). By setting such a small rate, the oil exporters, which account for 40% of the global oil market, will be able […]

More than 692,000 new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus infection were recorded globally in the past day, pushing the total case count to 81.47 million, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in its daily bulletin on Thursday, APA reports.   According to the WHO update, coronavirus-related deaths across the globe increased by over 13,900 […]

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday issued its first ever emergency validation, this for the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, making it the first vaccine to receive the agency’s emergency approval since the beginning of the pandemic, APA reports.   “This is a very positive step towards ensuring global access to COVID-19 vaccines. But I want […]