Presentation ceremony of a book "Missing people" by critic-literary man Masud Alioglu was held in Azerbaijan University of Languages...

A book entitled "A Peak of Perfection" by the world-famed scientist, editor of magazine "Varlig", poet, surgeon Javad Heyet was published in "Azerneshr".
The book is a collection of articles and poems. It includes writings by doctor Javad Heyet published in magazine "Varlig" and other press organs, as well as writings by his contemporaries about this magazine, at last by known Azerbaijani and Turkish poets and their poems devoted to Javad Heyet....

Famous poet Ogtay Rza's 75th jubilee will be marked on November 11 in "Natavan" club at Azerbaijan Writers Union.
His friends, literary public representatives will attend the event....

A book "Like Kerem" (Thoughts about Nazim Hikmat's life and creativity) by Anar was printed in Turkish "Bengu" publishing house. ...

An event devoted to the 110th anniversary of Jafar Jabbarli supported by Baku City Cultura and Tourism Department will be held in Centralized Library of Nizami region on November 10. The event will be attended by figures of culture, art and science...

Today at the museum named after Heydar Aliyev in the city of Tovuz was held an event in honor of the 70-year anniversary of Colonel of the Ministry of National Security (MNS) Eldar Gasim oglu Gasimov, directly involved in the detection and prevention terrorist acts and other crimes in Azerbaijan and the post-soviet territory....

Russia is on the 153rd place due to the level of freedom of speech. According to the rate chart prepared by “Reporters without Borders” Russia held 141st place last year. It should be noted that the rate chart on the state of freedom of speech in the world countries is prepared by this organization every year. The main reason of Russia’s going down for 12 steps is the killing of journalist and law defenders....

Information Center of USA, the financial news agency “Bloomberg” bought the magazine “Business Week” belonging to the publishing group “McGraw Hill”. According to the information of “The Guild of Periodical Press Publishers”, first of all “Bloomberg” committed to pay cash 5 million dollars and also above 10 million dollars in case of staff reduction of the magazine....

From the 1st November of 2009 the test review of the new popular-scientific channel “My planet” will be broadcated by WholeRussia State Television and Radio Company. The Vice-president of the Company Dmitry Mednikov informed about this. According to him, 10 million dollars were spended to the new project. It is expected to have the number of the viewers up to 15 million persons....

A round table on theme “reasons for professionalism problem in mass media” will be held organized by Azerbaijan Free Speech Foundation in a conference hall of Caspian Plaza Business Center at 12:00pm on 27 October. According to the Foundation’s information, it is intended to discuss widely analogous problem with participation of specialists at the event. Along with experts, lawyers, leaders of mass media capable to directly assist to settlement of specialty problem in the mass media are invited to the round table....

Web sites of American The New York Times newspaper and its international version - The International Herald Tribune - have turned to a uniform resource. As editor of The International Herald Tribune Martin Gottlib noted in his speech to readers, the newspapers had decided to unite efforts to create “a 24-hour news resource” to function on the basis of The New York Times web site.

In Azerbaijan 31 March is marked as the Day of genocide of Azerbaijanis, Trend News informs. In March, 1918, dashnaks seizing power in Baku under leadership of Stepan Shaumyan committed a ruthless genocide of the Azerbaijani people. As a result of the committed crime in March-April in Baku, Shamakha, Guba and in other regions of Azerbaijan they killed innocent Azerbaijanis and the whole villages were burnt down. During that period brotherly Turkey gave a support hand to Azerbaijan to rescue the Azerbaijani population from the total annihilation and slaughter carried out by Armenians.

The National Security Ministry of Azerbaijan decided to publish documentary materials concerning the March events of 1918 in the form of a separate book, AzerTadj informs. The book composed by historical sciences doctor Solmaz Rustamova-Togidi, “March, 1918. Baku. The Azerbaijan pogroms in documents” will undoubtedly cause a great interest as it is a collection of documents gathered by the Extreme investigatory commission, created by the Azerbaijan government in July, 1918 to investigate facts of violence, pogroms and marauding, committed in relation to the Muslim population and their property within all the Transcaucasia from the beginning of the I World War.

In Tbilisi on 27-29 March, seminar for journalists of Armenia and Azerbaijan covering the conflict was held within the limits of the project of the Foundation of the European cooperation.

The CNN TV for the first time of its 30-year history has got down to the third position in prime-time programs ratings, the Associated Press informs. Upon the March results, the CNN let the Fox News and MSNBC forward.