It is a wonderful and memorable day in the history of our country today.  We are celebrating the opening of a new building of the Diplomatic Academy.  At the same time, we are opening a traditional meeting with the Ambassadors. The establishment of the Diplomatic Academy has been a significant event in the history of our country.  I am very pleased that the Academy has achieved rapid development in a short time and earned great authority in the country, region and the world.  The activities of the Academy on training professional personnel are evident.  I am sure...

Few aspects of Azerbaijani statehood have a more complicated history than the way in which Nakhchivan, the non-contiguous autonomous republic, acquired its special status in 1921, a status that to this day makes both Ankara and Moscow guarantors of its remaining part of the Republic of Azerbaijan.  Both this complexity and the special status of Nakhchivan are little understood by many outside observers.  But like so many other things in Azerbaijan, they continue to play a key role in the understanding of Azerbaijanis about the role of outside powers in their national life, incl...

This year, at the direction of President Ilham Aliyev, Azerbaijanis will continue to mark the 870th anniversary of the great Azerbaijani poet, Nizami Ganjavi, whose works—masterpieces of world literature—are increasingly attracting the attention of musicologists, because the poetry of Nizami refers so often to the musical instruments of his time—most particularly, the chang—and because his references so often have led artists to illustrate his manuscripts with precise pictures of those instruments. By the nineteenth century, the chang had ceased to be used and was almost complete...

An interview with H.E. Mr. Vladimir Dorokhin, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Azerbaijan ...