According to the custom on this day people jump over fires lighted in all yards from fire brought from churches.

In the issue of settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict a minimal compromise is possible, at which the international community will not recognize Nagorno Karabakh as a state having its place at the UN, Pier Garton said.

Within the framework of the program the National Center for HIV/AIDS prevention will get assistance, trainings for specialists will be held.

In the words of director of the Crisis Center of Azerbaijan Matanat Azizova, only this year the center has received 45 statements from relatives of people, who became victims of slave-traders.

Many observers connect the delay in the construction of Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline with the elections in Azerbaijan and Georgia. It seemed that once the elections were finished in Georgia, the construction would restart. However, in Tbilisi they are continuing to discuss the expediency of the project which may be dangerous for the ecology.