When Nikita Khrushchev eased the great oppressions of Stalinism, one name to come in from the cold was Tair Salakhov. Paintings by the artist, who died last week, were always in a figurative realist vein, but possessed none of the required romanticisation of working life in Russia that was required of artists to thrive previously.
Tair Salakhov, one of the most famous artists of the cultural thaw under Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev during the 1950s and 1960s, has died aged 92. His daughter, the artist Aidan Salakhova, told Russian press that he passed away from pneumonia in a Berlin clinic on 21 May.
If the contrary is true, was the controversial decision of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation made because the Latin alphabet was inconsistent with the Tatar language? According to this law, the Karelian language did not receive the status of an official language in the Republic of Karelia, as it traditionally uses Latin script, or rather it was not allowed.
Azerbaijan is hardly the first country that comes to mind when it comes to cinema, although it does have a cinematic tradition dating back to 1898, when French-Russian cinematographer Alexandre Michon shot a 30 second-long short titled The Oil Gush Fire in Bibiheybat.
My goal was not to compare Azerbaijanis with Poles and the peoples of the Baltic countries. It would be absurd to make such a comparison. I just want to say that from a historical point of view—and from other important points of view, the events taking place in Azerbaijan today seem legitimate and completely natural.
Michelle Rasul had just learned to read and write and was already spinning turntables, scratching hip-hop records and making the beats drop. Four years later, at the age of 9, she’s one of the world’s top DJs and competed in this year’s global championship.
When Ilhama Safarova immigrated to the U.S. from her homeland of Azerbaijan in 2018, the former nurse didn’t plan to open a bakery. The move was so her daughter, Shukrana, could attend college in the District.
Each historical period had its own ways, means and instruments of punishment. Sometimes I force myself to go the Internet and torture myself by looking at the tools of punishment invented throughout history. The inventors and makers of those tools did their best to make sure people would die a painful—and very, very slow death.
Each cultural and natural domain in these districts of Azerbaijan represents unique pictorial languages, cultural peculiarities and architectural masterpieces.
Carpet weaving is one of Azerbaijan's most ancient arts, dating back to the Bronze Age. In this edition of Cult, Euronews visits a renowned museum in Baku, home to ancient as well as modern carpets.
“Həsrət qalmaq” is an Azerbaijani idiom that accurately conveys the feelings of those yearning for the brilliant heights occupied by the modern government officials with their unfettered access to the treasury. To more than the treasury, in fact. Our reality is that we don’t even have access to the Caspian Sea. Not the treasury—our sea, those dear, familiar, beckoning, affectionate waves.
Most peoples have a historically shaped idea of their place and role, their mission in this world. From time immemorial, Orthodoxy, the Great Russian idea, coupled with the belief that "Moscow is the third Rome" has been the cornerstone of all-Russian identity. Japan is still loyal to the samurai traditions, which coexists with a craving for scientific and technological progress and modernization. In the Chinese mind, Confucianism has historically dominated as a cultural and philosophical teaching combined with strict hierarchical thinking and the belief that the Celestial Empire is the center of the Universe.
As a Canadian in London, one thing that makes me roll my eyes is being asked to say the word “about”.
To get into T.S. Eliot's poetics, we first need to take a quick look at the representatives of the New Criticism regarded as one of the main movements in the twentieth-century American literary criticism, the philosophical and aesthetic systems on which they based their views, Francis Herbert Bradley’s idealist philosophy, and some thoughts of the French symbolists Jules Laforgue and Stéphane Mallarmé.
The arrival of Gipsy Kings on the international music scene with the eponymous album had a bombshell effect. The fiery songs on the album, such as “Bamboleo”, “Djobi, Djoba” and others, which still retain their fresh flavor, have been recorded in the pages of world music that will never be erased.
The Palace of Shaki Khans is located in the historic Azerbaijani city of Shaki at the foot of the Greater Caucasus Mountains, 240 kilometers (150 miles) north from capital Baku.
Today, we will talk briefly about one of the most important issues of architecture—the serious problems brought about by urbanization, which remain challenging to solve for major architects and architecture firms.
A historic palace in an Azerbaijani city, which is famous for its historical and natural scenes, is one of the most visited places by tourists during the spring festival of Nowruz.
At the top of the chart are Azerbaijan’s 8,000 Jews, who this year are expected to consume 10 tons of the unleavened bread cracker that Jews eat on the week of Passover to commemorate their ancestors’ hurried flight out of Egypt.
In March, Azerbaijan celebrates the Nowruz spring holiday. The word Novruz means “New Day” and so Novruz is the festival of the “New Day” or the Spring Equinox. Painted eggs and healthy feasts recalled Easter to the western observer, which is the Christianized form of a similar festival in ancient Europe.
You would be hard-pressed to find another prophet whose image gets recreated in the fine arts as much as that of Jesus Christ. European art boasts dozens of tableaux depicting various episodes of Jesus’s life, from his birth to his last days.
Aristotle begins his Metaphysics with the statement that every person has the potential to know. Hence it can be said that every person develops accurate/philosophical/epistemological knowledge. Man has a Justified True Belief rather than knowledge related to the "who are we?" question. Knowledge is a phenomenon of the impossibility of thinking otherwise. In contrast, JTB can be falsified.
No pickles, no shankbone, no cemetery visits: Central Asian Mountain Jews try to preserve centuries-old Passover traditions.
Azerbaijan, the Land of Fire, sits between Europe and Asia, offering travelers a mix of UNESCO-recognized historical appeal, natural beauty in spades and a dazzlingly modern capital. Explore this lesser known destination through these stunning photos.