On December 23, 2021, Milana Abbasova, PhD student at Khazar University and coordinator of the Department of English Language and Literature, successfully defended her dissertation entitled "Contemporary Trends in Sociolinguistic Approach to the Study of English" at Dissertation Council No.ED 2.12 at Azerbaijan University of Languages granting degrees Doctor of Science and Doctor of Philosophy. At the meeting chaired by the head of the dissertation council academician Kamal Abdullayev, Milana Abbasova delivered her presentation and answered the questions of the board members.

The Dissertation Council decided that the applicant can be granted PhD 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.