Azerbaijan

As physical and technical interference appear to the cause of the crash-land that killed 38 people, Azimuth Airlines has cancelled flights to a number of Russian airports including Mineralnye Vody, Sochi, Volgograd, Ufa, Samara, Makhachkala, and Grozny

The Vatican Secretary for Relations with States and International Organizations concluded his official visit to Azerbaijan -13 to 16 December- where his blessed the site and lay the foundation stone of a church dedicated to Saint John Paul II in Baku

Another 48 families were relocated to the country’s liberated Shusha city as part of the Great Return State Program; around 30.000 people now live in Karabakh and Eastern Zangezur, mainly former internally displaced persons and workers in various sectors

Within the framework of the Individual Partnership Cooperation Programme 2024 between the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence and NATO, a 'Training and Exercise Course' was conducted by the NATO Joint Force Command's Mobile Training Team

Azerbaijani authorities waged a deliberate ethnic cleansing campaign to empty Nagorno Karabakh of its 100.000 Armenians during the full takeover of the territory in September 2023, reads a report based on a fact-finding mission by watchdog Freedom House

Construction work on the 9 km sewer in Zangilan is 83% complete; two water reservoirs with a capacity of 4.000 cubic metres each are being built in the city

Azerbaijan is ranked 'Not Free' in the 'Internet Freedom 2024' report published by Freedom House, a human rights organisation; with a score of 34, it down 3 points from the previous edition

A special network of universities on climate change will be established by November 2024, said Azerbaijani Member of Parliament

500 needy primary school pupils in the regions of Samukh, Goygol, Gedebey, Dashkasan and Goranboy have received school materials and bags distributed by the Turkish Co-operation and Co-ordination Agency

Azerbaijan's population increased by 23.477, or 0,2%, since the beginning of 2024 and reached 10.204.247 as of 1 August 2024

The updated "myGov" platform has been launched: it provides access to key government services, digital documents and personal data management and is presented by the Digital Innovation and Development Agency

Rail transport volumes along the Azerbaijani section of the International North–South Transport Corridor grew by 25% in the first half of 2024, compared to the same period of 2023, with volumes amounting to about 435.000 tons of freight