Culture

V International Mstislav Rostropovich Festival organized by the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Mstislav Rostropovich Foundation ended on December 10. Assessing the Festival as a big cultural event, Chief of Art Department of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism Farah Aliyeva said the aim of the event is to organize performances of prominent art masters in Rostropovich’s motherland...

The 5th International Mstislav Rostropovich Festival was solemnly opened at the Heydar Aliyev Palace in Baku, December 4.The art director of the Festival, co-organized by the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, Azerbaijan Ministry of Culture and Tourism and Mstislav Rostropovich Foundation is Olga Rostropovich.Azerbaijani Minister of Culture and Tourism Abulfas Garayev and President of ...

An agreement for financial support was signed on October 27 within the 36^th Session of UNESCO’s General Conference between Azerbaijan and UNESCO to restore the cultural sector of Haiti after the earthquake. According to the agreement, financial support in the amount of 50 thousand US Dollars would be spent...

Azerbaijan Cultural Centre was solemnly opened in Moscow. Located in the All-Russia State Library of the Foreign Literature named after M.I.Rudomino, the Center is the first cultural center in CIS created with the support of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation and the Embassy of Azerbaijan to Russia.Svetlana Gorokhova, the Deputy Director for International Relations of the Library, estimated opening...

The solemn opening ceremony of the 3rd Uzeyir Hajybeyli International Music Festival organized by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism with the support of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation was held at the Muslum Magomayev Azerbaijan State Philharmonic Hall, September 18.The Festival is dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the restoration of the state independence of Azerbaijan.