Iran 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 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 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 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 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 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 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: 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 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 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 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 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 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: 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...
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