Want to say - 2015
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(CNN)Khadija Ismayilova, an Azerbaijani journalist working for the congressionally funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, has been sitting behind bars in Baku since December and faces up to 19 years...
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The writer is executive director of Meydan TV.Having been jailed twice for criticizing the government of Azerbaijan, one of the world’s most repressive countries, I have taken up residence in Germany,...
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he cultural fault line that seems to divide the West and many formerly Soviet states is perhaps most visible when it comes to differing attitudes on LGBT issues. But a culture clash is also flaring in...
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It was well after midnight in Baku, on 5 August last year, when I spoke by Skype to my old friend Arif Yunus, the distinguished Azerbaijani scholar. Arif was under great stress. He wanted to discuss h...
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Tens of billions of dollars are stolen by corrupt government officials, despots and autocrats each year, and tracking what they do with it is hard.When it’s stolen with the assistance of the criminal...
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The Secretary General of the Council of Europe issued the following statement today:“I am shocked by the murder of Rasim Aliyev, Chairman of the Institute for Reporters Safety and Freedom (*). It is a...
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WHEN AZERBAIJAN opened the first European Games in Baku on June 12, the extravagant ceremony included a surprise appearance by Lady Gaga, who performed a 10-minute set, for which she was reportedly p...
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July 30 the lawyer Elchin Gambarov visited his defendant Leyla Yunus. "Her health deteriorated. Sharp pains in the stomach, continuous vomiting and as a consequence - the inability to eat," the lawyer...
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Luxury hotels bearing Donald Trump's name grace some of the world's ritziest locations, including New York, Waikiki, and Rio. There is one outlier: the Trump Hotel and Tower in Baku, the capital of oi...
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On 27 July at 02:30 Russian border guards fired at a flock of Caucasian tour, killing several animals in the Ilisu reserve of Azerbaijan. One border guard was on the lookout at the triangulation mark...
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Dear Rauf, I have read your letter to me and I respect you for presenting your position to me so thoroughly.Thank you also for the kind words addressed to me. I agree with you that the situation in Az...
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By Tamara GrigoryevaEurasia Program Officer, Emergency Assistance ProgramOn June 24, the last day of the European Games in Baku, the president of the European Olympic Committees, Pat Hickey, waved to...
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Browsing through the archives of western news outlets of the early 1990s, Azerbaijan is not a country mentioned all too often. The limited coverage that does exist, though, mentions Azerbaijan only in...
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It should have been a happy day for Leyla and Arif Yunus. On 15 July, the couple — together for 37 years — saw each other for the first time in 11 months. The circumstances of their reunion, however,...
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Eldar Namazov, well-known political analyst, one of the founders of the National Council, denied media reports that he allegedly left Azerbaijan. "Yesterday a number of websites, and even some sites...
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Last week, I became an American citizen. My wife and I were among 101 new Americans from 45 different countries who took the Oath of Allegiance at Mount Vernon's special 4th of July Naturalization Cer...















