Migration. Artist Ibrahim Hasanov

Trailing the Fine Arts of AZERBAIJAN

By Ian PEART, United Kingdom

Sattar Bahlulzadeh’s gravestone. Sculptor Omar Eldarov

Azerbaijan is certainly better known now to the West than when I landed here 24 years ago, and its exploits in sports: the first European games, Qarabag’s footballing exploits across Europe, and Formula 1 have all helped to raise the profile. Winning the Eurovision Song Contest in 2011 and hosting it in the following year also helped. And finally having to fight to reclaim its lands in Karabakh in 2020 and 2023 made people even more aware of the country.

At crucial moments of the 44-day war, the President addressed the people

Diplomacy leading to victory

By Jeyhun BAYRAMOV, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan

 

The historic victory of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Azerbaijan under the leadership of Supreme Commander-in-Chief Ilham Aliyev in the second Karabakh war and the liberation of the occupied territories have been inscribed in the history of Azerbaijan in golden letters. Along with the courage and heroism of the Azerbaijani army, the diplomatic activity of President Ilham Aliyev played an important role in this victory.

Bright Baku

WHEN THE LIGHTS GO ON

Andrey VASILYEV

There are two Bakus: Baku by day, ultra-modern and realistic, and Baku by night, when a myriad of lamps and lanterns go on and the streets turn into a series of luminous and magic palaces as if they were carried over from a fairy tale.