Nobert Yevdayev, editor-
Nobert Yevdayev, born in Baku in 1929, is a truly unique and more than a versatile person. Jazz musician, poet, painter, journalist, author of numerous scientific papers — this is not the whole list of his hobbies and achievements. Since 1989, the former from Baku resident lives in the United States and since 2003 publishes the newspaper “Noviy Rubezh.” In an interview Day.Az Yevda tells how the newspaper began publishing, about Azerbaijanis and migrants from Azerbaijan living in the States and the intrigues of the Armenian diaspora.
Q: How did you decide to publish a newspaper? What is the aim of “Noviy Rubezh”?
Nobert Yevdayev: In 2003, upon the recommendation of one of my friends, I was invited by leaders of Mountain Jewish Community with a request to publish a newspaper. My conditions were as follows — not to be confined to narrow communal interests and to publish a newspaper with general information of world political and cultural international events. The newspaper is published since May 2003. It has 32 pages. It appears once a month and does not contain news. The newspaper publishes articles in English, Russian, Azerbaijani and Gorski Jewish languages. A total 3,000 are released. In addition New York City, the newspaper is circulated in mountain Jewish communities abroad including Moscow, Baku, Tel Aviv, Berlin and Toronto.
Q: How many Azerbaijanis and migrants from Azerbaijan live in New York according to your own estimations?
A: We do not have statistics. But the most active part of people from Azerbaijan meet every year to celebrate Novruz. This festival is celebrated by several organizations, in particular, the Permanent Mission of Azerbaijan to the UN in New York restaurant “Baku Palace,” Association of Azerbaijanis living in the United States and the Association of Azerbaijanis living in New York. Each of the events unite at most 300 people. As the most prominent representatives of Azerbaijani people living in the U.S. I can note Nargiz Shakynskaya — a well-known observer and presenter in the American TV channel, Azim Sadykhov — filmmaker and Award Winner of film festivals in the United States, Telman Jalilov — Honored Artist of Azerbaijan and the head of the Azerbaijani national dance, Chingiz Sadikhov “well-known pianist and the accompanist of Rashid Behbudov and Muslim Magomayev in the past, Anna Toporovski — a well-known radio commentator which broadcasts the events taking place in the White House and many others. Of course, this is not an exhaustive list of known great Azerbaijanis. However, many migrants from Azerbaijan live in the U.S. whom we do not know.
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