Contact - 2009
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Such a strange thing-chance. Or fate. Whichever you personally believe in. I had not visited Baku for two years, and just when I finally did, this weird shooting happened. I got up in the morning, and...
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The Azerbaijani-Turkish relationships have deteriorated against the gas background. Ilham Aliyev"s recent statements made it clear that the gas issue has played an important role in the geopolitical p...
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Street concert to support bloggers Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli will take place on September 2 in front of Azerbaijan"s Embassy in London. According to the bloggers" friends in Great Britain, the con...
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By Anne E. Derse, U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan On World Press Freedom Day, May 3, the international community takes time to recognize the importance of a free press and call upon governments to en...
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The Food Thing Anyone who has ever been invited to an Azeri house for a dinner would find the spread overwhelming and humanly impossible to consume in one go. Not to mention the sea of dishes repla...
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There was famous American film "Horses Ridden Too Hard Shot" with Jane Fonda in the main role. In this film the dealers from one of the U.S. state arranged the dance show with a big money prize during...
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I am distressed by S. Rob Sobhani`s Op-Ed (`New chance on the old Silk Road,` Opinion, Dec. 14). The country that Mr. Sobhani holds up as a role model for the Middle East - Azerbaijan - falls so short...
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President Obama has today outlined a bold new direction for American forces in Afghanistan finally to bring stability to this long-suffering country and defeat al-Qa"ida and Taliban terrorists. We hop...
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What was the situation with human rights and other political freedoms in Azerbaijan in 2008? What changes happened in the court system and in legislative sphere; is there a progress towards European s...
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On March 2 2005 Elmar Huseynov, social outcast of Azerbaijani press and, probably, one of the most outstanding journalists of modern Azerbaijan, was murdered. Elmar"s role has been predetermined not o...
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Kyle L. Marquardt Harvard University marquard@fas.harvard.edu Draft prepared for presentation at the Conference on Caucasus Studies: Migration, Society, Language; Malmoe, Sweden,...
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After graduation from the University I used to work as the Russian language and literature teacher in the secondary school for about ten years. It was not easy, but it was interesting. That was...
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When the sentence was passed in 2006, I was taken to the colony No 14, 50 km away from Baku. This high security colony has a bad reputation in Azerbaijan. The place itself suppresses the person - ther...
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The Novruz holiday has calmed down the scandal around Araz Agalarov. But it looks like head of the Crocus International will not get off with only a scare. The interview of Emin Agalarov"s father...
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U.S. Ambassador Anne DerseSadly, there are thousands who are trapped in various forms of enslavement here in our country... - President Barack ObamaFor many people, slavery is a relic of the past. But...
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On this day, four years ago, on 2 March 2005 the Editor of the journal "Monitor", Elmar Huseynov was brutally killed. The murder of the highly popular Azerbaijani investigative journalist Elmar Hus...
