Azerbaijan: Seeking to Arrest Critical Journalists throughout the Ex-USSR
The arrest of an Azerbaijani journalist in Ukraine marks a fresh instance of free-media-wary Azerbaijan having a critical reporter apprehended outside its borders.Fikret Huseynli, who survived a...
View ArticleAzerbaijan: Prison for a Blogger, Free Flats for Reporters
It’s been a notable week for Azerbaijan’s efforts to control both foreign and Azerbaijani narratives about itself. Russian-Israeli-Ukrainian blogger Alexander Lapshin got a three-year prison sentence...
View ArticleAzerbaijan Tags Armenia, Georgia in Journalist Kidnapping
It only took so much time before Azerbaijan blamed Armenia for the scandalous abduction of an Azerbaijani journalist from Georgia, even though a senior Azerbaijani parliament member had just said that...
View ArticleHow Will Donald Trump Handle the Caucasus?
On the cusp of what appears a new era of unpredictability in international affairs, countries in the Caucasus, that sensitive borderland between East and West, are wondering what to expect from Donald...
View ArticleGermany’s Ballasting Mission to the South Caucasus
Germany this week took its turn to appease and assure the South Caucasus about the European Union’s integration intentions by sending its top diplomat to the topsy-turvy region. Given Germany’s...
View ArticleArmenia Wants More Bang for the Buck from Russia
Russia’s plans to keep selling guns to both Armenia and Azerbaijan, no matter if the Caucasus’ two irascible neighbors use them against each other, is feeding growing Armenian frustration with their...
View ArticleAzerbaijan: Did Prisoner Releases Help Secure Washington's Welcome?
Azerbaijan was welcomed at the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, DC on March 30 as an international energy security and counterterrorism asset, while the country’s repressive ways gained only a...
View ArticleRussian-Bullied Turkey Gets a Hug from Azerbaijan
Pounded with threats and sanctions from Russia, Turkey on December 4 went to its Turkic cousin Azerbaijan to get some much-needed love and economic reassurance. Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu...
View ArticleAzerbaijan to Sue French TV for Calling Ilham Aliyev a "Dictator"
Azerbaijan plans to take French public television channel France 2 to court for an investigative program that called the Azerbaijani government a “dictatorship” and its leader, President Ilham Aliyev,...
View ArticleAzerbaijan on Defensive over Jailed Journalist Khadija Ismayilova
One day after sending internationally acclaimed journalist Khadija Ismayilova to prison on criminal charges, Baku on September 2 told the US and European Union to back off with the criticism.Following...
View ArticleAzerbaijan to Battle World Media with the Turkic News Network
Step aside, CNN, and make room, Al Jazeera: an international news network is coming to break the current "monopoly" on news and promote a Turkic point of view.Media scholars like John Merrill may...
View ArticleAzerbaijani Media: No Easy Kiss and Make Up with US
After a period of estrangement, Baku has laid out its terms for getting back on friendly terms with Washington. The suggestions may have come in the form of commentaries from local news outlets, but...
View ArticleEU Summit Could Prove Uneventful for South Caucasus
The closer it gets to the European Union’s May 21-22 summit in Riga, the clearer it becomes that the post-Soviet countries grouped together under the EU’s Eastern Partnership Program will not be making...
View ArticleIran Offers Guns and Friendship to Azerbaijan
Iran and Azerbaijan have made a surprise decision to form a joint defense commission; a move that may indicate a conspicuous geopolitical shift in the South Caucasus.During his April 20 visit to Baku,...
View ArticleAzerbaijan: Swiss Embassy Shelters Rights-Activist from Arrest
Prominent Azerbaijani media-rights activist Emin Huseynov has been living in the Swiss embassy in Azerbaijan’s capital, Baku, since last August, the Swiss government has acknowledged.Huseynov, a...
View ArticleUS Embassy Denies Secret Talks with Iran in Azerbaijan
The United States embassy in Baku has categorically denied a report in The Times which claimed that Washington and Tehran will conduct “secret talks” in Baku this week about restoring some form of ties...
View ArticleAzerbaijan Donates $1 Million to Fight Ebola
Azerbaijan has chipped in a million dollars to the United Nations' Ebola response effort in what appears to be the latest installment in the ongoing campaign to promote Baku’s credentials as a...
View ArticleAzerbaijan Arrests Alleged ISIS and Other Islamic Fighters
The arrest of 26 Azerbaijanis for allegedly joining armed Islamic groups in Syria and the wider region may help Azerbaijan place its strategic importance to the United States above criticism of its...
View ArticleWill Russia Help Defuse Azerbaijani-Armenian Tensions?
Generally seen as a warmonger in the Ukraine conflict, Russia plans to play the role of peacemaker in another ex-Soviet conflict that could be spiralling out of control.Longtime enemies Armenia and...
View ArticleTony Blair Snags an Azerbaijani Gas-Gig
Ex-British Prime Minister Tony Blair has come under fire for agreeing to help out an Azerbaijani gas pipeline designed to diversify energy resources in Europe.There are controversies at both ends of...
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