Baku, March ۱۲ (AzerTAc). An Azerbaijan-Croatia business forum has today been held in Baku with participation of Presidents Ilham Aliyev and Ivo Josipovic. The event brought together officials, more than ۲۰۰ businessmen form both countries representing a wide range of fields, including agricultural, industry, energy, construction, ICT and healthcare....

YEREVAN, MARCH ۱۲, ARMENPRESS. Israelis for the first time were offered tourist visit to Armenia. in its economy site stated that regardless of the growing tension in the South Caucasus, Armenia is becoming attractive for Israeli tourists. Rome, Berlin, Prague, as well as the Greek islands Crete and Rhodes are most popular trends of tour visits this ...

Energy and Natural Resources Minister Taner Yıldız has said Turkey can facilitate the transportation of natural gas Greek Cyprus and Israel are currently working to extract in the eastern Mediterranean to northwestern markets only if and when Israel agrees to Turkey's demands regarding the killing of eight of its citizens together with a US citizen ...

The Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) rule represents an opportunity to solve the Kurdish conflict that should not be wasted, Deputy Prime Minister Beşir Atalay said yesterday, urging Kurdish politicians to back the government efforts.“The AKP era is an opportunity to settle the problems of our Kurdish citizens. This opportunity should ...

UN-Arab League special envoy on Syria Kofi Annan, currently in Damascus for key talks, is expected to visit Turkey on Monday, Turkish officials said on Sunday.Turkey's state-run Anatolia news agency quoted diplomatic sources as saying that Annan will arrive in Ankara late on Monday and leave the country on Tuesday after having talks with top Turkish ...

VLDIVOSTOK, March ۱۱ (Itar-Tass) — Two people were injured as two coal carrying trains collided near the railway station of Aur in Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Region early on Sunday, the regional emergencies department said. As a result of collision ۲۹ carriages and one electric locomotive derailed. The emergencies department reported that ...

Baku, March ۱۰ (AzerTAc). The constituent Congress of the World Azerbaijani Youth Union will be held in Baku on Monday. According to the press service of the State Committee on Work with Diaspora, the Congress organized, by the Azerbaijani youth living abroad, will bring together about ۵۰۰ delegates and guests, representatives of Azerbaijani youth ...

Georgia presented at the Vaziani military firing-ground outside Tbilisi on March ۳ its first domestically manufactured multiple rocket launcher system. “We have produced this artillery system and soon we will launch producing its rocket shells,” said President Saakashvili, who attended the presentation of the multiple rocket launcher, adding ...

 On March ۱۰, Moscow cinema in Yerevan hosted the launch of ۱۰th British Film Festival. The latter is organized by the British Council Armenia office and Embassy of Great Britain in Armenia. During the opening ceremony of the festival, the head of British Council Armenia office Arevik Saribekyan noted that the films are dedicated to the Olympic ...

А Russian military helicopter was shot down by the Mujahideen of the Caucasus Emirate near the village of Gubden in the CE Province of Dagestan on Friday, March ۹. The Mujahideen opened fire on enemy helicopter with light weapons. As a result, the helicopter was damaged and had to make ​​an emergency landing. The invaders claim that that they suffered ...

UN humanitarian aid chief Valerie Amos has said the Syrian government has agreed to allow limited access to UN aid agencies, but is asking for more time. Speaking at a press conference held in Ankara on Friday, Amos said Syrian government officials had agreed to allow a UN preliminary humanitarian assessment mission to enter the country. “In ...

The initiative on the normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations from the outset had two development paths, Armenian President and chairman of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) said. As Serzh Sargsyan said at the ۱۳th congress of RPA, the initiative didn’t develop in the way desirable for Armenia and the international community as ...

French newspaper Le Figaro published an article about Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili's recent address to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France. In his speech to the European Parliament on Tuesday, Georgia's President Saakashvili took unilateral responsibility to refuse to using force and offered dialogue without precedent conditions....

The achievement of the financial stability allowed Azerbaijan to become a serious participant in investment projects abroad. Azerbaijan invested $۶ billion in foreign countries from ۲۰۰۳ to ۲۰۱۱. Azerbaijani Minister of Economic Development Shahin Mustafayev said that Azerbaijan has become a country exporting investments. The accelerated pace of developing ...

National security is a game of managing risk – pure and simple. During the Cold War, states were the primary target for intelligence; non-state actors, like terrorists, were secondary. As a result, national intelligence services had not digested the implications of the end of the Cold War when the first wave of terrorist attacks struck. In the ...

Abstract: Vladimir Putin’s regime is best understood not in political terms, but in criminal terms. The minions and oligarchs are loyal to Putin because he offers them protection. They can commit any crimes they like, but as long as they stay loyal, they can get rich and take their money to the West. Pushing back hard and setting a firm, even ...

Hearing a foreign language on Palace Square, pictured, and other places in St. Petersburg is increasingly common as the city attracts many more tourists. City Hall wants even more. Population: ۴,۸۴۸,۷۰۰ Main industries: shipbuilding, automotive construction, trade and tourism Governor: Georgy Poltavchenko Founded in ۱۷۰۳ Interesting fact: St. Petersburg ...

Billionaire opposition politician, Bidzina Ivanishvili, announced on February ۲۱ about formal launch of his coalition, Georgian Dream, which apart of his planned party also includes Our Georgia-Free Democrats (OGFD), Republican Party and National Forum. Leaders of Conservative Party and People’s Party, Zviad Dzidziguri and Koba Davitashvili, ...

With Turkey appearing at the forefront of discussions over international intervention in Syria -- particularly regarding the implementation of a humanitarian corridor in order to bring help to civilians who are trapped in besieged cities-- the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) is one of the key elements in a puzzle that could radically change Turkey’...