On February 24, 2022, Narmina Fataliyeva, PhD student at Khazar University, Department of English Language and Literature, successfully defended her dissertation entitled "The problem of synonymy: linguistic and extra linguistic factors regulating the choice of synonyms in modern English" at Dissertation Council No.ED 2.12 at Azerbaijan University of Languages granting degrees Doctor of Science and Doctor of Philosophy.

The Dissertation Council decided that the applicant can be granted Ph.D. degree taking into account the opinions of official opponents, individual scientists on the dissertation and its abstract, articles on scientific work published in local and foreign scientific journals, the dissertation’s meeting the requirements of the Supreme Attestation Commission under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.