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Azerbaijan hospitality can not to be reduced to only good gestures shown to foreigners or limited to having to be entertained by the assorted varieties of cuisines the Azerbaijanis has to offer (read Azerbaijan Hospitality – Part I); the Azerbaijan hospitality encompasses and embraces a people total way of living, its specificity is in the area of its acceptability of people from diverse cultural, religious beliefs and origins. Davamı »

Umud Rahimoglu: “Before coming into journalism people should take into consideration challenges”

On National Press Day our interviewer is Chairman of International Eurasia Press Fund, Press Council Deputy Chairman and Director of the International Press Institute’s Azerbaijan National Committee Umud Rahimoglu. Davamı »

David Dadge, Director of the International Press Institute (IPI), headquartered in Vienna has congratulated the International Eurasia Press Fund’s (IEPF) Chairman and the Director of IPI Azerbaijan National Committee Umud Rahimoglu on the occasion of his selection as a Deputy Chairman of Azerbaijan Press Council. A congratulation note, whish is addressed simultenaously to another IPI member from Azerbaijan, Chairman of the Journalists’ Trade Union Davamı »

Today, the Deputy Chairman of TRT Istanbul Mr. Huseyin Bashusta and his wife Mrs. Adalet paid a visit to the office of IEPF. Mr. Huseyin and his wife have been in Azerbaijan for three days. In the IEPF office, they met with Chairman of IEPF Umud Rahimoglu, who is also the deputy chairman of Azerbaijan Press Council and with other representatives of the organization. Davamı »

It was the fist time I traveled to one of the beautiful corners of Karabakh – Fuzuli. This beautiful place 15 years ago was occupied and destroyed but later liberated by Azerbaijan Army. Spring has just come and gone; the place was beautiful, everywhere covered with green looking very attractive to behold. Breathing the fresh air we walked the beautiful land, but alas! Fist time in my life I saw the poppy field. Davamı »

Today two Deputies of the Chairman were elected at the first meeting of the newly elected Executive Board of the Press Council of Azerbaijan. According to Council’s chairman Aflatun Amashov’s presentation, Umud Rahimoglu, Chairman of the International Eurasia Press Fund and Mushfiq Alaskerli were elected deputies of the chairman representing journalists and the public respectively. Davamı »

I have not lived all my life in Azerbaijan, but I have lived long enough to be a witness of the Azerbaijan hospitality. One thing the Azerbaijanis are very sure of is that they are one of the most hospitable people in the world. Although this has remained their own judgment of themselves, I will not fail to say how correct they have been to adjudge themselves so. Davamı »

Umud Rahimoglu had participated in a regional conference organized by the European center for Non-for-Profit Law in Bazaleti city of Georgia based on the project “Creating new opportunities” under the framework of “Government civil society relations”. The conference which lasted from the 3rd to the 5th of June had other participants representing Azerbaijan such as Rauf Zeyni, the president of the National NGO forum, Aydin Kerimov, the Independent Law Centre chairman. Davamı »

Vienna based International Press Institute’s (IPI) director David Dadge has addressed a letter to the president of Azerbaijan Mr. Ilham Aliyev in regard to imprisoned journalists. We’re providing the full text of the letter below:

“The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in over 120 countries, would like to express its concern at the worsening press freedom climate in Azerbaijan, Davamı »

The Second Price International Media Law Moot Court Competition will take place in 2009 at the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, at the University  of Oxford. Davamı »