Hamlet Isaxanli In Search of “Khazar” - DSpace at Khazar University

38In Search of "Khazar"good name. We have both "Azerbaijan" and "English"in it [That is, Azerbaijan University with English as amedium of instruction – Ed.]. What is your opinion?This name seemed a little bit strange to me, morefrankly I didn’t really like it. But I didn’t think it wasappropriate to refuse the Prime Minister’s offer, besideshe already said, "it’s a very good name."- Yes, it’s a very interesting name, - I said and setabout to express my doubt in a ‘peaceful’ way, - But Ihave never heard of the university name that states thelanguage of instruction in it.Hasanov put an end to the problem:- Let there be the name of the language in ours.And let the world see that there’s a university inAzerbaijan where the language of teaching is English.Let them understand that we are not fundamentalists. 11We are not a remote province of the USSR, but acountry, a nation turning its face to Europe andAmerica.Then he continued jokingly:- So, isn’t it well thought through? None of youcould think of it. OK, what’s left? Oh, do you have abuilding? Where will the classes be taught?These were still Soviet times. Though the SovietUnion had begun to collapse, there was inertness in theway of living, in thoughts. There was no privateownership. There were no people in Azerbaijan richenough (at least, officially) who would care abouteducation and science to an extent as to want to set up auniversity and spend money on its development. Thosewho knew about education and science and had newideas could do something only with support of thegovernment. For these reasons of course I could not