Azerbaijan is an economy that has completed its post-Soviet transition into a major oil based economy ( with the completion of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline ), from one where the state played the major role.

Azerbaijan has formal involvement with senior ex-U. S. government officials including James Baker and Henry Kissinger as they serve on the Honorary Council of Advisors of the U. S .- Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce ( USACC ).

Azerbaijan currently has diplomatic relations with 160 countries: Afghanistan, Bahrain, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, the People's Republic of China, Denmark, Egypt, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Libya, Luxembourg, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Poland, Qatar, Republic of India, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Togo, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.

soil pollution from toxic chemicals such as DDT ; energy blockade, the result of conflict with Azerbaijan, has led to deforestation when citizens scavenged for firewood ; pollution of Hrazdan ( Razdan ) and Araks Rivers ; the draining of Sevana Lich ( Lake Sevan ), a result of its use as a source for hydropower, threatens drinking water supplies ; restart of Metsamor nuclear power plant without adequate ( IAEA-recommended ) safety and backup systems

Although a cease-fire has held since 1994, the conflict with Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh has not been resolved.

An economic blockade with Turkey and Azerbaijan has cut Armenia's rail link between Gyumri and Kars to Turkey ; the rail link with Iran through the Azeri exclave of Nakhichevan ; and a natural gas and oil pipeline line with Azerbaijan.

The Minsk Group is currently co-chaired by Russia, France, and the United States and has representation from Turkey, the U. S., several European nations, Armenia, and Azerbaijan.

Ever since, football reporters and commentators on England games have called in jest for a " Russian linesman " ( although actually Bakhramov was from Azerbaijan ) whenever there has been a contentious decision to make, especially when that decision has not gone England's way.

Azerbaijan has an embassy in Astana.

The small Garmon accordion played in the Music of Azerbaijan sometimes has keys that can play microtones when a " shift " key is pressed.

Along the 20, 139-kilometer land frontier, Russia has boundaries with 14 countries: Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland ( via the Kaliningrad Oblast ), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, the People's Republic of China and North Korea.

Since 1991 the more than boundary with the former Soviet Union, which was defined in the 1921 Treaty of Moscow ( 1921 ) and Treaty of Kars, has formed Turkey's borders with the independent countries of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.

The UNCCD has 194 country Parties: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, The Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, the People's Republic of China, Colombia, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Côte d ' Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, European Union, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, The Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, the Republic of Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, South Korea, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Federated States of Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, São Tomé and Príncipe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Thailand, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

The Azerbaijan economy has been markedly stronger in recent years and, not surprisingly, the country has been making progress in developing its telecoms sector.

Construction is budgeted at $ 200 million, of which $ 50 million has been allocated from the State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan ( SOFAZ ).

There are regular flights between Azerbaijan and former Soviet countries, UK, Germany, France, Austria, Italy, Israel, Iran, Turkey, UAE, China, Georgia and has a cargo flights in UAE, Turkey, Luxembourg, Germany, China, Kyrgystan Afghanistan and Iraq.

In the Caucasian region of the former Soviet Union the phenomenon of population transfer along ethnic lines has affected many thousands of individuals in Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan proper ; from Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Georgia proper ; as well as from Chechnya and adjacent areas within Russia.

* The destruction by Azerbaijan of thousands of medieval Armenian gravestones at a cemetery in Julfa, and Azerbaijan's subsequent denial that the site had ever existed, has been widely written about as being an example of cultural genocide.

Iran has astonishingly even supported Christian Armenia against Shi ' ite Azerbaijan and has been careful not to lend too much support to Islamic Tajiks in Tajikistan, where the language is basically a dialect of Persian .</ BLOCKQUOTE > In this regard the Islamic Republic resembles another revolutionary state, the old Soviet Union.

Beginning in 1999, the Presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia initiated a direct dialogue through a series of face-to-face meetings, often facilitated by the Minsk Group Co-Chairs.

This was a quite different rhetoric, a more pragmatic one likely reflecting the reality that the ex-Soviet republics of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan had substantial Islamic political movements-similar to those in Turkey and Pakistan, relatively modern in tone and willing to participate in the US War on Terrorism to some degree, although not as direct combatants.

* September, 1991 — Mütallibov dissolves the Communist Party of Azerbaijan and proposes constitutional changes for direct nationwide elections of president.

Sea and water cargo transportation have vital importance for Azerbaijan, especially in regions where road and rail connections are disputed.

With new acquired powers, Khrushchev was able to appoint associates to the leadership in Georgia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Armenia and Moldavia ( modern Moldova ), while Malenkov, in contrast, was able to appoint an associate to leadership only in Moscow.

Despite the wide use of Azerbaijani in Azerbaijan during the Soviet era, it became the official language of Azerbaijan only in 1956.

The boundaries of Arran have shifted throughout history, sometimes encompassing the entire territory of the present day Republic of Azerbaijan, and at other times only parts of the South Caucasus.

" While in Qazaq and other Central Asian Turkic languages, бай remains a rather honorific title, in modern Turkish, and in Azerbaijan, the word " bey " ( or " bay ") simply means " mister " ( compare efendi ) or " sir " and is used in the meaning of " chieftain " only in historical context.

The mimosa ( technically, the Acacia dealbata | Silver Wattle ) is the symbol of the celebrations of Women's day in Italy and RussiaThe day is an official holiday in Afghanistan, Angola, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, China ( for women only ), Cuba, Georgia, Guinea-Bissau, Eritrea, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Macedonia ( for women only ), Madagascar ( for women only ), Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Nepal ( for women only ), Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, and Zambia.

However, the republic remains isolated, not only from the rest of Azerbaijan, but practically from the entire South Caucasus region.

The only ground forces training establishment in Azerbaijan was the Combined Arms Command School at Baku.

Some believe that the Communists ' plans failed because PFA was a truly national movement and the event only served to strengthen people's trust in the organisation and spelt the end of Soviet power in Azerbaijan.

The only Lezgin television broadcasting available in Azerbaijan is that received over the border from Russia.

In Asia, it was observed in Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Borneo, Bhutan, China ( Gengma County only ), Burma, Georgia, Guinea, India, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Laos, Malaysia ( Malaysian part of Borneo island ), Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan and Vietnam.

As a boy only a year old, he lost his father, the leader of a growing Qizilbash Shi ' i community in Iranian Azerbaijan, who died in battle.

The only significant areas where this climate is found at or near sea level in Asia is on the Black Sea coast in northern Turkey, in small pockets along or near the Caspian Sea in Azerbaijan and in small pockets along or near the Tsugaru Strait in northern Japan.

That flag existed only for a month, because on March 12 the Armenian SSR united with the Georgian SSR and the Azerbaijan SSR under the Transcaucasian SFSR ( TSFSR ), that was split again into these three republics in 1936.

Mammad Amin Rasulzade (, ,; born in January 31, 1884, Novxanı, near Baku — died March 6, 1955, Ankara ) was an Azerbaijani statesman, scholar, public figure and the first and only president of Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan ( 1918 – 1920 ).

During the summer of 1992, Elchibey secured the full withdrawal of the Russian army from Azerbaijan, which became the first and only former Soviet republic ( after the Baltic states ) free of Russian military presence.

Italy's return to the contest proved to be mixed: Raphael Gualazzi achieved a successful 2nd place behind the winning entry from Azerbaijan, but the ratings were very poor in the country ( only 1. 2 million people watched with a share of 6. 43 % on the night ).

Wild caviar production has now survived only in Azerbaijan and Iran as Russia maintains a self-imposed ban on caviar trade from wild sturgeon.

The boundaries of Arran have shifted throughout history, sometimes encompassing the entire territory of the present day Republic of Azerbaijan, and at other times only parts of the South Caucasus.

File: Behnam's House, Sahand University of Technology, Tabriz, Azerbaijan, Iran, 08-19-2006. jpg | Saffavid examples found not only in Iran but also in Central Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India

The flag of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, a de facto independent republic located in the Nagorno-Karabakh region ( or Artsakh region ) of the Republic of Azerbaijan located in South Caucasus, is derived from the flag of Armenia, with only a white pattern added.