On August 26 the Azerbaijani delegation headed by the Speaker of the Parliament Oktay Asadov will participate in the opening ceremony of the third bridge suspended over the Bosphorus in Istanbul, reported the Milli Majlis press service. The ceremony will be attended by the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the head of Bahrain Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, President of Macedonia Gjorge Ivanov, President of Northern Cyprus Mustafa Akinci, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia Rasim Ljajić, First Deputy Prime Minister of Georgia Dmitri Kumsishvili , the ministers of transport and the economy of some countries.
The third bridge over the Bosporus has been named after Sultan Selim (Yavuz.) Its width is 59 m, and the length is 1408 m. On the bridge, in addition to the highway there are two rail lines. The bridge was built at the northern boundary of the Bosphorus, near the confluence with the Black Sea. -02D-
Politics
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On August 2, the trial of Elnur Hasanov, a member of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan, who was arrested in November 2023 in a drug case, ended in the Baku Court of Grave Crimes.
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Soon, not only YouTube will be blocked in Russia, but also Google, Android and iOS, State Duma deputy Alexei Didenko stated today. According to him, nothing terrible will happen. The day before, Russians reported massive disruptions to YouTube. The State Duma said that the drop in video download speed on the service on desktop computers would be up to 70%, and the Foreign Ministry urged Russians to abandon YouTube in favor of Russian analogues.
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has apologized to Azerbaijan for the statements made by the leading French TV channel “France 2” during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris, the official response of the IOC to the letter of protest from the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Azerbaijan and the National Olympic Committee reads.
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The health of Famil Khalilov, a first-group disabled person and a public activist, who is being held in the sanitary unit of the Baku pre-trial detention center-1, is extremely serious. There are numerous wounds on his body, and he himself is in an unsanitary condition, said Kichikhanym Khalilov's wife.
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