Baku / 07.02.19 / Turan: President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev arrived on February 7 in Shamakhi, where an earthquake occurred two days ago.
The head of state heard information from the head of the Emergencies Ministry, Kamaleddin Heydarov, and the head of the district administration, Tahir Mammadov, on the consequences of the earthquake.
The President examined the buildings affected by the earthquake, and talked with local residents.
Late in the evening of February 5, two earthquakes occurred in the Shirvan region, with 6 and 5 points in the epicenter. As a result of the earthquake, dozens of buildings in the Shamakhi and Agsu regions were damaged. There were no casualties. - 06D-
Politics
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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev called President of the United States Donald Trump on 25 November.
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Director of the Institute of Political Management, political scientist Azer Gasymly has been summoned to the Main Police Department of Baku at 16:00 today. He wrote about it in facebook.
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Adalyat Verdiyev, the head of the civil defense staff at the public legal entity Center for Public Health and Reform under the Ministry of Health, and a military expert, has been arrested. On November 22, during a media tour to the liberated territories, Verdiyev filmed and published information and images on his social media accounts revealing Azerbaijani Armed Forces' combat positions in the heights, deployment sites, coordinates, and operational conditions of the border troops. This disclosure caused significant damage to the interests of state security and defense capability. This was stated in a report from the General Prosecutor’s Office.
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