Baku / 13.03.19 / Turan: The consulting company Mercer has published an annual rating of comfortable cities for foreigners assigned to work.
The ranking takes into account leisure opportunities, the economic and political environment, the work of public transport, the social environment, the level of medicine and education available to expats and their families.
Baku ranked only 195th in this list, Tbilisi - 187th, and Yerevan - 170th. Moscow took the 167th place.
As the most comfortable place to live the compilers of the rating called the Austrian Vienna and the Swiss Zurich. The third place was taken at once by three cities: Canadian Vancouver, German Munich and New Zealand Auckland. Bagdad was recognized as the most unfavorable city in the world. ----02D-
Politics
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A member of the National Council of Democratic Forces (NCDF) Jamil Hajiyev was detained at about 5:00 p.m. on Friday in front of the Baku Court of Grave Crimes.
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The United States Friday announced its largest sanctions yet on Russia’s energy sector targeting oil and LNG exports, aiming to cost Moscow billions monthly that Biden administration officials said will limit money available for the Kremlin's war in Ukraine, and giving Kyiv more leverage for negotiations, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.
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The identity card of renowned economist and political activist Gubad Ibadoglu has been invalidated, further restricting his rights after his release under house arrest. Ibadoglu himself informed Turan about this.
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BP-Azerbaijan has suspended operations at its offshore Alpha platform at the Shah Deniz gas condensate field due to a technical fault in a subsea gas pipeline used to transport gas condensate, company spokesperson Tamam Bayatly said on Friday.
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