The festival of Azerbaijani culture "Baku boulevard" will be held at the Minsk City Hall on September 22, Azernews reports.

Gerard Depardieu, a French actor who received Russian citizenship in 2013, has stated that he would also like to obtain Turkish citizenship, according to reports Monday.

Solemn celebration of the 100th anniversary of the liberation of Baku from the Bolshevik-Dashnak occupation is very important, Tahir Rzayev, an Azerbaijani MP, told Trend Sept. 17.

Baku Expo Center will host the 12th Azerbaijan International Education Exhibition on October 11-13, according to

Russian and Turkish troops are to enforce a new demilitarized zone in Idlib from which radical rebels will be required to withdraw, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday after a meeting with his Turkish counterpart, Reuters reports.

The Council of Foreign Ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will consider the issue of Azerbaijan's obtaining observer status, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said in a message on Sept. 17.

First Deputy Speaker of Iran's Parliament Masoud Pezeshkian will arrive in Azerbaijan on Sept. 17, the Iranian Embassy in Azerbaijan told Trend.

A delegation led by Editor-in-Chief of Chinese Xinhua News Agency He Ping, who has a ministerial status, has visited the Icherisheher, Inner City, a historic core of Azerbaijan`s capital Baku.

In accordance with the plan approved by President of Azerbaijan, Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Ilham Aliyev, minister of defense, Colonel-General Zakir Hasanov has arrived at the military exercises area to control the exercises, Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry said in a message Sept. 17.