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National actress Melek Safarova has successfully performed in Turkey. She was awarded with Grand Prix of the 9th Caspi Art International Contest.

Winners in various nominations were determined by photos and videos sent to the contest.

Melek Safarova presented the ballet composition (Image) in dance competition.

The actress thanked the organizer of the contest for the high appreciation of her creative performance, as well as the main conductor of the theater, honored art worker Fakhraddin Atayev, choreographer, honored artist Elena Aghayeva, director Samir Gulamov for the shooting and the entire theater team.

Melek Safarova is a graduate of the Baku Choreographic Academy and the Faculty of French Philology of the Azerbaijan University of Languages.

Since 2014, she has been working in the Azerbaijan Academic Musical Theater. She has successfully played in many productions. Last year she was recognized as the best ballet dancer of the theater.

Mostly dry weather is ahead for Baku and Absheron peninsula tomorrow.

Report informs, citing the National Hydrometeorology Department of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources, that the weather will be rainy at times, occasionally gloomy and mostly dry in Baku and Absheron peninsula tomorrow. Light fog will be observed in some places in the morning. Mild north-west wind will be replaced by north-east wind during the day.

Air temperature on the Absheron peninsula will be +1+4 C at night, +7+9 C in the daytime, in Baku +2+4 C at night, and +7+9 C in the daytime.

The atmospheric pressure will rise from 776 to 779 mm, and relative humidity will reach 75-85%.

It may rain occasionally in regions, while mountain and foothill areas will see snow that will be intense in some areas. Foggy weather is expected at night and in the morning, and the east wind will blow.

The air temperature will be from -3 to +2 at night, +5 to +10 C in the daytime, in the mountains from -3 to -8 C of frost at night, -3 to + 2 C in the daytime.

According to the medical-meteorological forecast, mild meteorological factors in the Absheron Peninsula will be favorable for people sensitive to the weather.

Unique and rare minerals have been discovered inside mud volcanoes in Azerbaijan.

Mud volcanoes contain rare types of minerals in breccia, a rock composed of broken fragments of minerals or rock cemented together by a fine-grained matrix.

It may have a variety of different origins, as indicated by the named types including sedimentary breccia, tectonic breccia, igneous breccia, impact breccia, and hydrothermal breccia.

The studies revealed the presence of natural minerals, nonspecific sulfates, oxides, natural iron (silicate, hematite) as well as rare types of minerals. All these minerals are possibly formed under the influence of deep fluids.

An analysis of mud breccia was made by Azerbaijani and Ukrainian scientists as part of the project "Accessory mineralization of breccia in Azerbaijan's mud volcanoes".

The studies were conducted jointly with specialists from the Ukraine's Center for Problems of Marine Geology, Geoecology and Sedimentary Ore Formation.

Bubbling and belching away like witches’ cauldrons, mud volcanoes are unbelievably beautiful natural wonders.

Azerbaijan is home to some stunning and unique natural wonders. The Land of Fire has the greatest number of mud volcanoes worldwide.

At present, there are 365 mud volcanoes in Azerbaijan. Most volcanoes are active, and 43 of them are protected by the Azerbaijan Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources. For security reasons, the admission of people there is prohibited.

Until the end of 2019, Azerbaijani scientists expect several volcanic eruptions, including Bozdag-Gobu volcanoes in Absheron district, Bahar in Alat village and Shikhzahirli volcano in Gobustan.

Tourists can get a unique panoramic view of the spectacular natural wonder in the Gobustan State Historical-Artistic Reserve.

The world’s largest mud volcanoes - Boyuk Khanizadagh and Turaghai - are both in Azerbaijan. Boyuk Khanizadagh erupted on October 10, 2001, shooting out flames for 300 meters in the air. It was the highest record for flames shot from a mud volcano.

NASA geologists studying Mars concluded that mud volcanoes of Azerbaijan are similar to uplands of the planet for their structure.

On September 5, 2004, the largest mud volcano in the territory of Azerbaijan was added into the Guinness World Records. Azerbaijan's rich fields of oil and gas condensate such as Lokbatan, Garadagh, Oil Rocks, and Mishovdag were also discovered near mud volcanoes.

The lava, mud, and liquid spewed by mud volcanoes are used as raw materials for chemical and construction industries, as well as pharmacology.

Enriched with specific components - mineral salts, organic substances, microelements, volcanic mud has medicinal properties that have a beneficial effect on the human body. Volcanic mud gives a great effect in the treatment of patients suffering from diseases of the peripheral and central nervous system, gastrointestinal tract, skin, etc.

From year to year, the Armenian propaganda campaign continues to impose on the world community a far-fetched version of the events of January 1990, and the pogroms in Baku and Sumgayit, which allegedly provoked a massacre of Armenians, Rizvan Huseynov, Director of the Center of Caucasian History.

In this sense, this year was no exception in the Armenian media, the renowned Azerbaijani historian said, adding that falsifying historical facts, Armenians have launched an anti-Azerbaijani campaign in an attempt to mislead the world community again.

"When the Armenian side begins to talk about the pogroms in Baku in January 1990, then it is apparently lying because these very events were preceded by a whole series of tragic events and provocations that cannot be kept in disguise," Huseynov noted.

"If they talk about the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, then we must return to the events in 1987-88, when the first pogroms and expulsions of Azerbaijanis from the territory of Armenia began. It was at that time that atrocities were committed in Kapan, in Gugark and other regions of Armenia, where Azerbaijanis were brutally expelled or killed. It was the first wave of refugees from the end of 1987 and the beginning of 1988 that flooded the streets of Azerbaijan's large cities - Baku, Sumgayit, Ganja and others, when destitute people became a kind of first catalyst for the events that led to the development of the Karabakh conflict," said the historian.

"It was 100-percent provocation by the Soviet KGB, which was carried out by the hands of nationalists, and in particular - party leaders, heads of police, districts, prosecutors - in a word, dignitaries of Armenia who participated in the expulsion of Azerbaijanis and thereby inspired the Armenian nationalists to these atrocities," he added.

“The USSR witnessed the picture; and the Gorbachev leadership actually provoked all these events, forcing the Azerbaijani side to take retaliatory measures,” said Huseynov. “Thus, these dispossessed people appeared in Azerbaijan’s Sumgait city as well, where, not without the support of the State Security Committee, everything was done not to let the city leadership and law enforcement agencies to act.”

“At that time, somehow, in anticipation of the Sumgait events, a huge group of criminal masterminds from all over the USSR appeared there,” the historian noted. “Who brought them is also understandable, since without an allied leadership this operation wouldn’t have succeeded. As a result, the city was paralyzed, after which there were riots led by Armenian Eduard Grigoryan, his brothers and other Armenians.”

“Nationalists beat, killed and raped the Armenians, and the purpose of this provocation was to justify the further occupation of Azerbaijani territories and large-scale aggression against the Azerbaijani people,” Huseynov said.

The historian reminded that literally immediately after the Sumgait events, a biased anti-Azerbaijani campaign was launched in the Soviet and foreign media to denigrate Azerbaijan.

“They tried to represent the Azerbaijani people as a monster, to attribute all the atrocities exclusively to the Azerbaijani people, while initially all this monstrous provocation was launched by Armenia, in particular, by the Armenian State Security Committee and the nationalists of this country,” Huseynov noted.

“Following this, the events inNagorno- Karabakh began to develop in a more dangerous way, rallies and riots by the Armenian separatists in Karabakh started,” said the historian. “The Armenian separatists sought to separate Nagorno-Karabakh from Azerbaijan, hostilities began, and all these events caused fair indignation of the Azerbaijani people.”

“Amid the complete inaction of the then Azerbaijani leadership, the situation was menacing,” Huseynov said. “As a result, a great part of the Azerbaijani intelligentsia came to the conclusion that it was necessary for Azerbaijan to gain independence to save its sovereignty and territorial integrity as the Soviet leadership of the Azerbaijan Republic was unable to do this.”

“In fact, the national liberation movement has started since 1988,” the scholar added. “The peak of this movement was the subsequent events of January 1990. While realizing the seriousness of the events, the Soviet Union Center again provoked the so-called riots of Armenians to justify sending of a huge contingent of the Soviet troops to Baku. Thus, a war was declared to the Soviet city of Baku. A contingent of troops, comparable to the contingent of the Soviet troops sent to Afghanistan during the war, was sent to Baku. The war against the Azerbaijani people was unambiguously declared.”

“This is the reality,” Huseynov said. “Therefore, if the current Armenian media outlets, journalists and the Armenian leadership do not realize that there were forces, in which the Armenian provocateurs and nationalists played a big role, trying to stop the national liberation movement in Azerbaijan, then they are simply blind. In this situation, Armenia attempted to prevent Azerbaijan to gain independence.”

“As a result, the 'Karabakh map' was used to turn the national liberation movement into an interethnic conflict, and the goal was partially achieved,” the scholar said. “Nevertheless, the Azerbaijani people eventually gained independence. I think that this period, which turned into disorder and riots followed by the January 20 tragedy, is the chain of provocations of the Armenian side and the Soviet Union Center aimed at undermining the national liberation movement in Azerbaijan.”

Azerbaijan State Philharmonic Hall will pay tribute to the memory of the victims of Black January.

As part of the concert, the State Chamber Orchestra will perform works of Gerald Raphael Finzi, Leos Janacek, Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet and Alfred Garrievich Schnittke on January 21.

The orchestra will be conducted by People's Artist Fakhraddin Karimov. The soloists include Honored Artist Siruz Mammadov (trumpet), musicians Rovshan Amrakhov (violin) and Nazrin Aslanli (violin).

The 20th of January, 1990, is marked in the modern history of Azerbaijan as one of the most tragic days for the country.

On the night of January 19, 1990, the Soviet Army started hostilities against Azerbaijan, without declaring an emergency situation. As a result of the crime, 132 people were killed, 612 people injured and 841 people illegally arrested. Hundreds of buildings were destroyed; the state and citizens suffered huge material damage.

Azerbaijani schoolchildren won a total of 8 medals - 1 gold, three silver, and four bronze at the 16th International Zhautykov Olympiad in Almaty.

Report says, citing the Ministry of Education, that 588 students from 20 countries took part in the competition. Abutalib Namazov, a student of the 11th grade of the Lyceum with a bias in physics, mathematics, and computer science, won the gold medal, Murad Eynizada won silver, and student of Ganja Secondary School No. 15 won a bronze medal in computer science.

In turn, pupils of the 11th grade of the Lyceum with a bias in physics, mathematics, and computer science Murad Agazade and Abbas Mammadov won silver medals. Student of the 9th grade Togrul Abbasov and the pupil of the 11th grade of the secondary school No. 1 of Malbeyli village of Shusha district Vugar Guliyev claimed bronze in math. The student of the 11th grade of the Lyceum of physics, mathematics, and computer science, Muhammad Yusifov, was awarded a bronze medal in physics.

Azerbaijani schoolchildren have been taking part in the International Zhautykov Olympiad since 2006. Over the years, they have won 49 awards, including three gold, 19 silver, and 27 bronze medals.

International Mugham Center invites you to enjoy poetry evening on February 10.

The evening will feature 12 wonderful poems by Rasmina Gurbatova and Ulviyya Akhundova inspired by one of the most amazing feelings in the world

The project  "Demo version of Love" talks about  difficult and beautiful path that we go from dating to breaking up.

Talented musicians Eyvaz Gashimov (drums), Azad Yusubov (bass), Elnur Huseynov (keyboards), Shamil Mammadov (guitar) will help authors to share their stories. The head of the musical group is Babir Babirli.

Notably, Ulviyya Akhundova is a talented screenwriter, poetess and translator. She also heads Public Affairs department at YARAT Contemporary Art Space. Rasmina Gurbatova is a famous designer, poetess and composer. She is a founder and creative director of Resm Jewelry .

The project is supported by Arts Council Azerbaijan. Admission to the event is free.

Arts Council is an international organization with representative offices in many countries, including Azerbaijan.

Headed by Dadash Mammadov, Arts Council Azerbaijan aims at promotion of national culture and art.

Over the 14 years of its existence, Arts Council Azerbaijan has implemented many successful art and cultural events.

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, and Youth Network.

Intermittent rain is in the forecast for Baku and Absheron peninsula tomorrow, the National Hydrometeorology Department of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources told. 

According to the information, fog and drizzle are possible in some places at night and in the morning. North-west wind will blow and occasionally intensify in the evening.

The air temperature on the Absheron peninsula will be +2+5 C at night, +6+9 C in the daytime, in Baku +3+5 C at night, and +7+9 C in the day.

The atmospheric pressure will be 775 mm, and relative humidity will be 80-85%.

It will be mostly dry in Azerbaijani regions, but it may rain in some areas in the evening. Snow may arrive in mountain and foothill areas together with the occasionally intensifying west wind and fog.

The air temperature will vary from -2 C to +3 C at night, +7+11 C in the daytime, in the mountains from -5 to -10 C of frost at night, 0+5 C in the day.

According to the medical-meteorological forecast, humid weather in the Absheron peninsula will be unfavorable for people sensitive to meteorological conditions.

Fashion show of world-famous "Vogue"  has been held within Ukrainian Fashion Industry Awards.

Azerbaijani model Nazrin Javadli took part in the fashion show.

The evening featured stunning evening gowns of the Albanian designer Bel EVE.

The 13-year-old Nazrin is the first young model from Azerbaijan to take part in such a prestigious project. The young model was awarded with an international certificate.

"We express our deep gratitude to the head of the national delegation Yusif Jafarli and teacher-choreographer Mubariz Allahverdizade," said the international organizer and director of the Best Model of the project Azerbaijan Perviz Azimzadeh.

Nazrin Javadli is a seventh grade student at the Lyceum School Complex No. 200, a pupil of High Life Fashion & Model Academy. She is a winner of the national projects "Little Miss & Mister Azerbaıjan 2016", "Star 2017", etc.

The young model is a jury member of "Littile Miss & Mister Azerbaijan 2018 ". She has also successfully participated in local and international rhythmic gymnastics competitions.

Interactive classrooms have opened in Lankaran State University and Bilasuvar Secondary School No. 1. 

The event was organized as part of Samsung Technological Embrace supported by Nargis Foundation. The project was successfully summed up in 2019.

In order to increase the interest of students and ensure the interactivity of the educational process, all classrooms are equipped with interactive whiteboards, virtual reality booths, Flip board, tablets, widescreen televisions for watching documentaries and educational films, as well as various innovative products from Samsung.

The opening ceremonies in both educational institutions were held with the participation of the leadership, teachers and students of the school and university, the head of the executive power, representatives of Samsung, Nargis Foundation and journalists.

In September, 2019, the first electronic educational office opened at a comprehensive school in the village of Alekseyevka, Guba region. The opening ceremony was attended by the Minister of Education Jeykhun Bayramov.

Technological Embrace project is co-organized by Samsung and Nargis Foundation to acquaint children in Azerbaijan with modern digital technologies and interactive transformation of the educational process.

Firstly, a special tour "Cinemobile" was organized in six cities and regions. An open-air film screenings were held in Gazakh, Ganja, Zagatala, Guba, Sabirabad and Agdam.

As part of the project, children enjoyed their favorite animated film.