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For many decades, Muslim Magomayev has been and remains the idol of millions.

Memory of legendary singer and composer will be honored in the State Kremlin Palace on March 14.

The Moscow Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra and the Tenor Art of 21st Century art project have prepared a special program dedicated to the memory of the prominent singer.

"Tenor 21st Century" project includes soloists of prestigious Moscow and European opera houses.

Muslim Magomayev, the famous baritone and legendary idol of millions of people, made great contributions to the Azerbaijani music. His creative activity occupies a special place in the country’s music history.

He became famous around the USSR at the age of 19 after a stellar performance at the Kremlin Palace in Moscow. He became known in Europe after a successful performance at the Youth Festival in Helsinki, Finland.

A very important stage in mastering his vocals skills even further was his training in the La Scala Opera Theater in Milan. Muslim's stay in Italy – a country of innumerable art treasures and the home of belcanto – in the 1960s was not only beneficial for his singing, but also affected his inner world.

At age of 30, Magomayev was one of the youngest recipients of the highest artistic title, People's Artist of the USSR. He also received numerous awards for his contribution to opera and popular music in the Soviet Union.

The legendary singer also wrote songs, film soundtracks and music for theater performances. In addition, he played in films and acted as a host in television and radio broadcasts. He also loved to paint pictures, but called it his hobby.

In his later life, Magomayev struggled with a serious heart condition. In 1998, Magomayev officially ended his musical career and gave only a few performances together with his wife.

One of the greatest singers of the 20th century died of a heart failure in Moscow on October 25, 2008, and was laid to rest in Baku.

Arts Council Azerbaijan invites you to join "Start" art project, aimed at revealing the creative potential of young people, supporting and promoting talented artists.

The exhibition will feature oil paintings in different art styles, inspired by Icherishesher, the oldest part of Baku.

Artists who wants to join the exhibition can send photos of their works to the email: sergi@artscouncil.az until April 15, 2020. 

The artists should provide background information about their art works (size, etc.) and contact details.

The exhibition is supported by Icherisheher State Historical and Architectural Reserve, Azerbaijan Ministry of Culture, Arts Council Azerbaijan (NGO) as well as Youth Network.

Arts Council Azerbaijan is an international and independent art platform. The organization is the head of the International Arts Council Network operating in different countries around the world. It was created by Dadash Mammadov in 2006.

The main purpose of the organization is to promote Azerbaijani culture and art.

Many projects have been operating for many years under the auspices of the organization. Among them are Art Gazette, Production Studio, Azerbaijan Animation Museum named after Nazim Mammadov, Art School Drawing School, "Under open air" plein air, Art Residence, Youth Network.

The 5th Booktrailer Festival is pleased to announce contest rules.

The Organizing Committee has revealed steps that you need to follow to join the contest:

- Festival is open for everyone regardless of age;

- One can join the contest with a booktrailers of one book or a series of books of Azerbaijani writers regardless of their date and place of publication;

- Number of submitted works by one participant is not limited;

- Booktrailers should not violate copyright;

- Submitted works must not contain material that promotes any ethnic, racial, religious forms of hate, pornographics, any content that violates or encourages the violation of any law, rule or regulation;

- Booktrailers will not be returned or reviewed;

- The Organizing Committee has the right to use booktrailers to promote festival through social networks, sites, YouTube, mass media etc., without informing the film director and payment .

Booktrailers are short videos that promote a book or an author, providing a good illustration of the book content.

The festival aims at promoting books, supporting and developing creative forms of reading, searching talented young people in cinematography and promoting bookrailers as a part of art and business.

Anyone can take part in the festival through registration  (www.booktrailer.az). The first place will get a cash prize -1,000 ($589) manats, while the winners of the second and third places 800 manats  ($472) and 500 ($295) manats, respectively.

The winners will be also awarded in the nomination "The best mobile book-trailer". To participate in this nomination, everyone can shot a booktrailer on a mobile phone and send it to the festival. The winner in "Best Mobile Book Trailer" will receive a cash prize-1,000 ($589) manats.

The festival is organized with the support of the Ministry of Culture. The main partner of the event is Azercell, a leader of the mobile communication sector in Azerbaijan. 

For more information, please visit:

 www.booktrailer.az

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/BooktrailerFest

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BooktrailerFest

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/BooktrailerFest

For all questions, please contact: festival2020@booktrailer.az

World Beauty Congress (WBC) has announced the winners of Most Fashionable Award.

As the President of the World Beauty Congress (WBC) and Director General of the Azerbaijan Fashion Association Zamir Huseynov stressed, the main goal of the project is to discover personalities who have achieved success in various fields and can share their experience with others, Trend Life reported.

Most Fashionable Awards is an international prize that features more than 80 nominations.

The prize unites professionals from various fields and makes it possible to exchange knowledge and grow your business.

The semi-finals have already been held in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, and now have started in Israel and the Balkans.

In Azerbaijan, the winners were awarded in 88 nominations. The choice of the Top 5 in each nomination were determined according to the results of online voting and decision of jury members.

The five best nominees, who won a large number of votes, went on stage to take part in the award ceremony.

Public and cultural figures, media representatives, including Trend News Agency's correspondent Vugar Imanov were among the Top 5 nominees. The gala evening was followed by a stunning fashion show.

Most Fashionable Awards final voting will last until March 1. The final night will take place in Romanian Opera Timisoara on April 22.

The three-day event includes a 6-hour gala dinner, where all participants will meet experts in their field and representatives of other nominations.

Vice-President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation Leyla Aliyeva has visited Bona Dea International Hospital in Baku. Leyla Aliyeva met with children suffering from ichthyosis, epidermolysis bullosa and immunodeficiency. At the hospital, she was informed of the treatment of children.

Gifts were presented to children, who undergo treatment with the support of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation.

Notably, Bona Dea International Hospital opened its doors in 2018. The hospital consists of seven floors, with an area of 37,500 m². The opening ceremony was attended by the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva

The main goal of the Bona Dea International Hospital is to provide all patients with the highest quality of care and aim for the highest patient and employee satisfaction while applying innovation at all levels of care.

The hospital has 32 medical departments. It has many specialties onsite including cardiology, general surgery, endocrinology, emergency medicine and others.

The Bona Dea International Hospital aims to become one of the top hospitals in the Caspian region operating according to western European standards of healthcare.

Azerbaijani and Russian celebrities have gathered in Moscow to get ready for Zhara Music Festival.

The festival's  pre-party was attended by famous singers Emin Agalarov (EMIN), Nyusha, Mitya Fomin, Brandon Stone, Huseyn Hasanov and many others.

Zhara Music Festival enjoys global success expanding its geography.

The music festival will be held in Sochi on March 14, bringing together famous singers Grigory Leps, EMIN, Sergey Lazarev and many others. The event will be hosted by Yulia Baranovskaya and Konstantin Tarasyuk.

A day of sunshine and fascinating music awaits you in Monaco on May 7. The festival will gather some of the best Azerbaijani and Russian performers.

Being favorite among music lovers in Azerbaijan, Zhara Music Festival will also delight German audience this spring.

The event will take place at the ISS Dome Arena Dusseldorf on May 31. People's Artist of Azerbaijan Emin Agalarov (EMIN), "Rauf & Faik" duo, Elman Zeynalov (ELMAN), Jony (Jahid Huseynli),  Timati, Egor Creed, Irina Dubtsova and many others will rock the stage.

Meanwhile, the festival's fifth edition will be held in Baku from July 29 to August 2. 

Zhara offers an unforgettable experience for everyone. The festival features numerous spectacular shows and much more.

The festival is co-organized by People's Artist of Azerbaijan Emin Agalarov, Honored Artist of Russia Grigory Leps, founder of Russkoye Radio and Zolotoy Grammofon award Sergei Kozhevnikov.

More than 200 singers and bands like Chingiz Mustafayev, Monatik, Philipp Kirkorov, A’Studio, Vera Brezhneva, Bosson, Rita Dakota, Dmitry Matatov, Glyuk’oza, Nikolay Baskov, Kristina Orbakaite, Burito, Aleksandr Panayotov, Ani Lorak and others took part in the last year’s festival.

With its fascinating exhibits, Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum never ceases to amaze art lovers.

The museum actively cooperates with international partners and implements multiple cultural project aimed at promotion of Azerbaijan's carpet weaving art. The cooperation with the Hermitage Museum is another important step in this direction.

A memorandum of understanding has been recently signed between the National Carpet Museum and the Hermitage Museum.  

The signing ceremony was attended by museums’ directors Shirin Melikova and Mikhail Piotrovsky.

The document reflects the intentions of the parties on the development and expansion of bilateral relations and cultural cooperation in the field of spreading knowledge about the history, culture and traditions of the two countries.

The sides plan to conduct research work, exchange information and experience in the field of museum business, including storage and restoration of exhibits, and implement joint exhibition projects.

The memorandum provides catalogue of Azerbaijani carpets stored in the Hermitage Museum, clarification of their labels and annotations in terms of indicating Azerbaijan as their place of manufacture, as well as the organization of a joint exhibition of two museums in November 2020, as part of the IX St. Petersburg International Cultural Forum.

Special place will be taken by work to improve the conditions of access to cultural property for people with special needs.

The project "Pazyryk carpet is one of such programs. The project unites the experience of the two museums in this area. Moreover, it is also planned to present replicas of Pazyryk carpets for visually impaired people.

The project will be based on a special weaving method developed at the National Carpet Museum, which combines piled and pileless carpet weaving techniques.

Each exhibit will be accompanied by Braille text and a tiflocom commentary (a laconic description of an object.

The first inter-museum project will be coordinated by the director of the National Carpet Museum Shirin Melikova and the head of the Hermitage's Laboratory for Scientific Restoration of Precious Metals  Igor Malkiel.

This is the second joint project of two museums. At the invitation of the National Carpet Museum Igor Malkiel held a training in last year. The event discussed conservation of the museum's jewelry collection and inclusive programs.

"When the Persimmons Grew" film directed by Hilal Baydarov has been screened in Brussels as part of the Bridges International Film Festival.

The film produced jointly by Azerbaijani and Austrian filmmakers won the Heart of Sarajevo Prize for Best Documentary Film.

The plot of the film is about a lonely mother who is waiting for her son in a village in Azerbaijan. The endless ticking of the clock sets the rhythm of her life as she stares at old black-and-white photos on the wall. Outside the dogs bark and a car is pulled along by three oxen, but above all there is silence. Until the son finally arrives by train and it is persimmon harvest season again: the family reunion is blissful, but all too brief. As soon as the fruits are picked and dried, everyone leaves again, and the winter gradually sets in.

In his documentary, Hilal Baydarov not only portraits his mother, but also explores what it means to "come home."

The film director draws his own conclusion in one of the many philosophical conversations with his mother: "Home is a place where you can feel the time pass."

The winners of the “Yukselish” competition, a management skills competition aimed at creation of a personnel reserves bank in Azerbaijan, will be employed into public service without an examination, Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports Farhad Hajiyev has said.

Addressing the press conference on the completion of the registration phase for the competition held on February 7, Hajiyev said that “10,000 manats ($5,882) out of 20,000 manats ($11,764) that will be allocated to each winner of the “Yukselish” competition should be spent on education within a year after the end of the competition."

Hajiyev said that the winners of the competition will be included in the country’s bank of personnel reserves.

“As for how long these individuals will remain in the bank of personnel reserves, I do not believe that they will remain in the reserve bank for a long time. Given the ongoing reforms, they are likely to be provided with appropriate job as soon as possible,” he said.

He noted that there are even some structures that have stated that they would like to work not only with the winners, but also with candidates who will reach the final.

“The winners of the competition will not be required to pass an exam for admission to the civil service. We discussed it with Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the State Examination Center Maleyka Abbaszade. The rules for admission to the civil service will probably be amended to make this possible,” he added.

The “Yukselish” competition was established by order of President Ilham Aliyev, signed on July 26, 2019, with the aim of identifying and supporting promising executives with a high intellectual level and managerial qualities and ensuring the creation of a bank of personnel reserves in the country. An organizing committee has been created in connection with the competition.

One million manats ($588,235) were allocated to the Azerbaijani Ministry of Youth and Sports from the reserve fund of the President of Azerbaijan envisaged in the 2019 state budget of Azerbaijan for the ongoing work as part of the competition.

"For the first time these days, winter has finally shown itself with snowfall. The snow cover has reached half a meter in some places. In high mountain areas, the temperature dropped to - 24 C. Absheron logged -2C, an unusual thing for this part of the country," Head of the National Hydrometeorology Department, Umayra Tagiyeva, told journalists. 

According to Report, Tagiyeva said such weather would bring joy to children, but winds with speeds of up to 35-38 m/s forced the clouds to move away from the Absheron peninsula. Therefore, no heavy snowfall  was recorded in nearby areas. 

"A strong wind, 30 meters per second, will gradually die down towards midnight. South-west wind on February 11 will raise the temperature to 6 degrees. Although snowfall will cease in most regions, the process will continue in some southern areas until February 11 daytime. Snow is expected in the evening and at night in the south-eastern part of the Absheron peninsula".