Portal:Azerbaijan/Did you know/7


 * ...that during the G8 Summit in Germany on June 7-8, Russian president Vladimir Putin offered to deploy elements of an American anti-misssile shield in Qabala Radiolocation Station in Azerbaijan instead of Poland and the Czech Republic?


 * ...that the first Azerbaijani language newspaper, Akinchi was founded in 1875 by Hasan bey Zardabi?


 * ... that Badr Shirvani, a Persian poet from Shirvan in the present-day Republic of Azerbaijan, received patronage from numerous rulers at the same time?