The official opening ceremony of the CIS Cultural Capital - 2025 will be held in Azerbaijan’s Lachin city on June 2-4, AZTV.AZ, citing the country’s Ministry of Culture.
The event will be organized by the Azerbaijan Ministry of Culture and the Special Representative Office of the President of Azerbaijan in the Lachin district.
Officials, art representatives, artistic collectives, and media members from Azerbaijan and other member countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) traveled to Lachin city on June 2 for this purpose.
According to the decision of the CIS Council for Humanitarian Cooperation dated October 8, 2024, the city of Lachin in Azerbaijan's Eastern Zangazur region has been declared the CIS Cultural Capital for 2025.