The Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin arrives in Azerbaijan for a two day visit today, a diplomatic source said. The agenda of the visit is not reported. It is expected that Rogozin will be received by President Ilham Aliyev.
In the Russian Government, Rogozin is in charge of military-industrial complex questions. It is possible that one of the topics discussed will be the extension of the agreement on the Gabala radar station.
Likely to be discussed are also other issues of bilateral relations, and the situation in the region and the world.
It should be noted that Ilham Aliyev and Dmitry Rogozin are well acquainted with each other from the activities of the PACE, where both led the national delegations of their countries. -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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On Monday, the Baku Appeals Court considered the appeal of Talysh researcher Iqbal Abilov against the extension of his detention for another four months. The defense argued that the decision to extend Abilov's detention was unjustified, lawyer Fariz Namazly told reporters.
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