5 years have passed since Azeri Press Agency (APA) began its activity...

Azerbaijan’s Press Council and Zardabi press center are monitoring the bodies and officials who do not give information to media, chairman of the Press Council Aflatun Amashov told journalists, APA reports....

Correspondent of the Aksam newspaper of Turkey Nagehan Alci visited Nagorno Karabakh, the occupied territory of Azerbaijan, APA reports....

A hall of book and exhibition entitled "Etude" opened recently in the centre of Baku (Ahmad Javad Street, 5). Books on different themes are presented to buyers in the hall. Also buyers can order books they want....

The film "Javid omru" ("Javid's life") devoted to the life and creation of great poet and playwright of Azerbaijan Huseyn Javid was displayed in Baku Slavic University and was held a meeting with the film crew...

Writer Chingiz Abdullayev will meet with youth today in Azerbaijan Writers Union. The meeting will be held within "Week of youth" carried out by Azerbaijan Students Union and Youth and Sports Ministry....

Editor of Pakistani Ittehad newspaper Tahir Farooq visited Azerbaijan State Telegraph Agency (AzerTAc) where he met its director general Aslan Aslanov on Nov. 11.
Aslanov informed Farooq of the history of AzerTAc which was founded by the Government of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in 1920.....

Azerbaijan's Press Council has released the black list of newspaper again.
The council said the list includes the publications that regularly violate the Rules of Professional Ethics of Journalists, ignore the opinion of the persons they criticize, principle of inviolability of private life, insult people’s honor and dignity....

Poet Yusif Huseyn's book "Men de bu dunyadan bele kechdim" ("So I lived in this world") printed by "Adiloglu" publishing house....

Culture and Tourism Minister Abulfas Garayev presented awards to winners of the competition "Deyilen soz yadigardir" ("The said word is memorable") IV Republic Recitation Contest held in Lankaran and devoted to the 110th anniversary of Jafar Jabbarli on November 10....

”The limits on financial account of “TV 25” were unset”, said Deputy Finance Minister of Georgia Irakli Ghvaladze.
According to him, the Minister of Finance met on the matter with the Ombudsman. The meeting was considered the withdrawal of arrest from the accounts of television and the decision was taken...

Foundation for the Protection of freedom of speech is going to publish in pamphlet form a new directory of media operating in Azerbaijan.
According to the information from the fund, before the publication of the catalog in Azerbaijani, Russian and English languages will be made an official request to the media, gathered information about them. This includes the history of the newspaper, information about the chief editors, circulation and structure. The book will be collected materials on the written media, online media and electronic media structures....

Canadian journalists - in defense of freedom of speech” (CJFE) at a ceremony in Toronto today announced the names of the winners of the International Press Freedom Award for this year. These were "Novaya Gazeta" and the Iranian journalist Gil Banyagub. They are awarded for extraordinary courage and overcoming tremendous difficulties in communicating information. Memorial Prize was awarded to Canadian writer Terry Gould....

91 years have passed since the adoption of the state flag of Azerbaijan, APA reports....

The 4th issue of a collection "Questions of the Oriental Philology" of the Institute of Oriental Studies at Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS) was published....