September - October 2013

President Ilham Aliyev was sworn in to a new term in office in a ceremony in the Azerbaijani

I find myself back in the Land of Fire – Azerbaijan – as an honoured guest at the third

by Agshin Aliyev and Anne Ahmadova-Thompson

On 20 October, Baku started the 600-day countdown to

Did you know that the spectacular sport of polo has roots in the east, which reach down to

Polo player Tito Gaudenzi talks to Visions’ Jeyran Bayramova

We interviewed Tito Gaudenzi,

 

A day out in a mall… What do you usually expect? A bit of shopping, a trip to the movies

Foreign companies and entrepreneurs rushed to the Caucasus in the late 19th century, a result of

A call to revive the Russian (Baku) Emanuel Nobel Prize for innovation in the oil industry was one o

The international prizes established by Alfred Nobel are renowned worldwide and the subject of

Eminent Azerbaijani artist Togrul Narimanbeyov (also known as Narimanbekov) synthesised east and wes

God gave me life. This is how I am.

And how he has been from the beginning… The young

Perhaps no other fruit features in so many legends and traditions as the apple. In dozens of

There is a proverb in Azerbaijan – “however much you say halva, it won’t make