The President of Azerbaijan appointed a 57-year-old Lieutenant-General Madat Guliyev a first deputy minister of national security. Previously he worked for more than two years as head of the Prison Service, and before that worked for many years in the organs of the Interior Ministry, headed by the National Bureau of Interpol, the head of department for combating organized crime.
He was awarded the title of a national hero for not surrendering Ganja city to the rebels of Suret Huseynov in October 1994.
Appointment of Guliyev a first deputy National Security Ministry also means that Hilal Asadov was dismissed from this position. By another decree of the head of state, the structural changes have been made in the MNB, but their essence is not disclosed.—06D-
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On 13 January, the Baku Court for Serious Crimes sentenced public activist Bakhtiyar Hajiyev to 10 years of imprisonment.
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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has arrived today on a working visit to the UAE, the website of the head of state reports.
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Arrested director of the Institute of Political Management Azer Gasymly sent an appeal to the public from the pre-trial detention centre. It was published on the political scientist's facebook account by his wife.
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Ronen Kraus, director of the Eurasian department of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, has been appointed as the Jewish state's new Ambassador to Azerbaijan. He is among 12 new Israeli Ambassadors and Consuls to other countries appointed by Foreign Minister Gideon Saar.
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