Want to say - 2013
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When it comes to a long-distance relationship, it's always good to know what attracts the other side. And, as shown at a shindig in Baku this week to mark 21 years of official ties with the US, Azerba...
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What is it about Azerbaijan? Except, of course, that that country — and Turkey — are apparently willing to provide junkets for untold numbers of state politicians in return for political backscratchin...
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"I try not to cry so that I can be strong for my son," mathematics teacher Sakina Gurbanova says, struggling to hold back the tears, as she shows me a picture of her son.A handsome, smiling 27-year-ol...
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The chief editor of Tolyshi Sado Hilal Mammadov made a statement in connection with completing the trial over it.He reiterated that the political nature of the case and fraud allegations.At that focus...
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The Institute for Reporters’ Freedom and Safety (IRFS) is disappointed that more than fifty U.S. politicians, instead of showing solidarity with Azerbaijan's civil society and the principles of freedo...
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In mid-March, the Azerbaijani Foreign Minister sent a letter to the OSCE, officially requesting that the mandate of the OSCE Office in Baku be reviewed and its status changed to that of a “project coo...
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Earlier this year, the Harlem Shake, a video Internet meme, became a viral online sensation. For most, the Harlem Shake phenomenon was a quick laugh that rapidly grew stale. But in Azerbaijan, at lea...
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As an estimated 125 million viewers tuned in to watch the grand final of the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö, Sweden, on May 18, I could not help but think how different this year's Eurovision...
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When Swedish singer Loreen won the Eurovision Song Contest last year in Baku, she emerged as an outspoken champion of human rights in the former Soviet Union. She angered host country Azerbaijan by m...
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The International Partnership Group for Azerbaijan (IPGA) strongly condemns a series of repressive legislative amendments that Azerbaijan’s National Assembly (Milli Majlis) adopted on 14 May 2013. The...
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The International Partnership Group for Azerbaijan (IPGA) strongly condemns a series of repressive legislative amendments that Azerbaijan’s National Assembly (Milli Majlis) adopted on 14 May 2013. The...
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While Azerbaijan grows rich from energy extracted from beneath the land and sea, quacks and charlatans in the Caspian Basin nation are making hay. In a national survey conducted earlier this year by...
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he Azerbaijani presidential administration's Ali Hasanov had a saucy sound bite ready when World Press Freedom Day rolled around on May 2.Speaking at an event devoted to the annual global effort to h...
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The Mountaineering Federation of Azerbaijan issued a statement in which it said:The attempts to capture and strangle our Federation by the Federation of Extreme Sports are led by Huseingulu Baghirov,...
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Frederic Bourke, co-founder of the luxury-handbag maker Dooney & Bourke, is set to enter prison this week for conspiring 15 years ago in what prosecutors called “one of the most audacious” bribery sc...
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The Azerbaijani authorities should immediately stop its campaign of forced evictions and demolitions in the capital, Baku, Human Rights Watch said today. The government should also guarantee fair com...















