The UK House of Lords has hosted the annual Christmas charity meeting of the Anglo-Azerbaijani Society (www.anglo-azerbaijani-society.com) and celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Society.

Rector of the Baku branch of Lomonosov Moscow State University, head of Nizami Ganjavi Scientific Centre for the Study of Azerbaijan and Caucasus at the University of Oxford, Professor Nargiz Pashayeva has met with Associate Director of Development Antony Green and head of Nizami Ganjavi Scientific Centre at the University of Oxford on behalf of UK Edmund Herzig.

Rector of the Baku branch of Lomonosov Moscow State University, academician Nargiz Pashayeva has met with scientists of the University's Research Institute of Nuclear Physics. The scientists are visiting Baku to organize work of the Baku branch's newly established Atomic and Nuclear Physics laboratory.

U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan Robert Cekuta has visited Baku branch of Lomonosov Moscow State University to meet its Head, Academician Nargiz Pashayeva.

Leighton House Museum in London has hosted presentation of the first academic translation into English of Evgenii Berthels’ (1890-1957) “The Great Azerbaijani Poet, Nizami” book.

The Presidium of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS) has awarded recipients of “Nizami Ganjavi Gold Medal of the Republic of Azerbaijan” at its general meeting on April 28.

The Presidium of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS) has announced the results of “Nizami Ganjavi Gold Medal of the Republic of Azerbaijan” contest.

Head of Nizami Ganjavi Scientific Centre at the University of Oxford on behalf of Azerbaijan professor Nargiz Pashayeva and head of Nizami Ganjavi Scientific Centre on behalf of UK, Professor of Islamic History at Oxford and New York universities Robert Hoyland and Professor at Exeter University Robert Gleave have held a working meeting to discuss the preparations for the official presentation of a new foundation - The British Foundation for the Study of Azerbaijan and the Caucasus.

Rector of the Baku branch of Lomonosov Moscow State University, co-chair of the Anglo-Azerbaijani Society, Professor Nargiz Pashayeva has visited a traditional fundraising gala dinner in Goldsmiths’ Hall, London, invited by Purcell School for Young Musicians, the oldest specialist music school in the UK.

The Nizami Ganjavi Scientific Center is the only officially recognized institution in the UK that studies Azerbaijan, according to Mark Smith, newly appointed head of Oxford’s Oriental Institute.