The 2nd International Conference of the Western Azerbaijan Community "The Right to Return: Advancing Justice for Azerbaijanis Expelled from Armenia" took place in Baku the day before. Vestnik Kavkaza correspondent Marina Lagutina spoke with Stanislav Pritchin, Head of the Central Asia Sector at IMEMO RAS, about the prospects for peace in the South Caucasus.
The MGIMO GOES GREEN environmental student forum is taking place at MGIMO. It is timed to coincide with the COP29 Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Climate Change, which starts in Baku on November 11. On the sidelines of the forum, Vestnik Kavkaza spoke with Sergey Kononuchenko, the Russian Ambassador at Large, about the importance of COP29 for the global climate agenda.
The COP29 convention, which was established at the Earth Summit in 1992 to prevent dangerous human interference in the climate system, will take place in Azerbaijan soon.
Exactly one year ago, on October 7, 2023, Hamas militants, taking advantage of the Simchat Torah holiday, attacked Israeli settlements close to the Gaza Strip, killing 1,200 people and taking 251 prisoners. "Vestnik Kavkaza" spoke with Vitaly Naumkin, scientific director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, about the scale to which the Middle East conflict has grown in a year.
Yesterday, Baku Mayor Eldar Azizov arrived in Moscow on a working visit to participate in the International Municipal BRICS Forums. He told "Vestnik Kavkaza" about cooperation with the leadership of the Russian capital and the development prospects of Baku.
The US authorities have recently started saying that they support not only "democratic values" in Armenia, but also the intention to break off relations with Russia. In Russia, such a game openly causes concern. Vestnik Kavkaza spoke with Alexander Perendzhiev about why the US needs Armenia to part with its most important ally.
The international expert forum "The Slavic-Turkic World in the Greater Altai Space: History and Modernity" is taking place in Barnaul. The head of the Department of Oriental History at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Historical Sciences Alexander Vasiliev told Vestnik Kavkaza about this cultural and historical phenomenon.
The international expert forum "The Slavic-Turkic World in the Greater Altai Space: History and Modernity" is taking place in Barnaul. Leading researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Alexander Kadyrbaev, told Vestnik Kavkaza about Slavic-Turkic unity.
The international expert forum "The Slavic-Turkic World in the Greater Altai Space: History and Modernity" is taking place in Barnaul. Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Alikber Alikberov told Vestnik Kavkaza about the unity of the Slavic and Turkic peoples.
This week, Russia is hosting the largest international economic forum, SPIEF-2024, in St. Petersburg. It traditionally includes a representative Azerbaijani delegation. Vestnik Kavkaza spoke with the Executive Director of the Azerbaijan Export and Investment Promotion Agency (AZPROMO) about economic contacts between the two countries.
In Moscow, at the site of the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music, a two-day Summit of Heads of cultural institutions of the CIS member states ended. On the sidelines of the forum, Vice-Rector for International Cooperation of the Baku Music Academy named after Uzeyir Hajibeyli, Professor Yegana Akhundova spoke about Russian-Azerbaijani cooperation.
The calendar summer begins tomorrow, and it's time to think about where to go on vacation. Vestnik Kavkaza talked with the Executive Director of the Association of Tour Operators of Russia about the Caucasian destinations of outbound and domestic tourism.
This spring, the Armenian-Azerbaijani settlement received positive dynamics thanks to the launch of work on border delimitation and the voluntary withdrawal of Armenian troops from the Gazakh region of Azerbaijan. However, there is still a bigger agenda ahead. Vestnik Kavkaza spoke with Stanislav Pritchin, Chairman of the Central Asia sector of the IMEMO RAS, about its contents.
The process of delimitation of the state border delimitation with Azerbaijan caused a negative reaction among part of the Armenian public, provoking a wave of protests and an initiative to impeach Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. Vestnik Kavkaza discussed the prospects for delimitation and the situation in Armenia with Alexey Naumov, an expert of the Russian International Affairs Council.
The VI World Forum on Intercultural Dialogue ends in Baku. Representative delegations from over 110 countries, including Russia, took part in the event. Vestnik Kavkaza talked with the former Minister of Culture and Sports of Kazakhstan, President of the Turkic Culture and Heritage Foundation Aktoty Raiymkulova about the results of the forum and the importance of intercultural dialogue.
Today, on the sidelines of the VI World Forum on Intercultural Dialogue held in Baku, an agreement was signed between the Russian National Museum of Music and the Azerbaijan State Museum of Musical Culture. The Director General of the Russian National Museum of Music, Mikhail Bryzgalov, who signed the document, told Vestnik Kavkaza about contacts with his Azerbaijani colleagues.
In Moscow, within the walls of the All-Russian State Library for Foreign Literature named after. M.I.Rudomino, the Azerbaijan Cultural Center, created with the support of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, has been operating since 2011. …
Artistic director of the Moscow Musical Theater Mikhail Shvydkoy spoke with Vestnik Kavkaza correspondent about contacts between Russia and Azerbaijan in cultural and educational sphere after the countries became allies
Political observer Alexander Artamonov told Vestnik Kavkaza about the potential collapse of France due to the ineffective policies of the country's current leadership.
Today, a presentation of the book ”Features of life in big cities” by director, film and theater artist, painter and graphic artist Addis Hajiyev took place in Moscow
