http://www.rferl.org/archive/Azerbaijan/latest/656/656.html RFE/RL's latest news, features, commentary, and multimedia content on Azerbaijan http://www.rferl.org/img/rssLogo_RFERL.gif http://www.rferl.org/archive/Azerbaijan/latest/656/656.html en-US Copyright 2010 - RFE/RL, Inc. 60 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:02:19 +0000 Pangea CMS – RFE/RL Countries in Central Europe and Central Asia are increasingly being ruled by autocratic governments with little regard for democracy, according to the 2013 "Nations In Transit" report by democracy watchdog Freedom House. http://www.rferl.org/content/freedom-house-report-/25020038.html http://www.rferl.org/content/freedom-house-report-/25020038.html Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:07:42 +0000 News internet_team@rferl.org (Heather Maher) Azerbaijani opposition leader Rustam Ibragimbekov has met with U.S. State Department officials in Washington this week to seek support ahead of the Caucasian country's presidential election in October. http://www.rferl.org/content/azerbaijan-opposition-leader-rustam-ibragimbekov-seeks-washington-support/25017630.html http://www.rferl.org/content/azerbaijan-opposition-leader-rustam-ibragimbekov-seeks-washington-support/25017630.html Fri, 14 Jun 2013 21:44:03 +0000 Azerbaijan internet_team@rferl.org (Richard Solash) A Finnish firm says it has developed a new, lightweight technology that will allow elevators to carry passengers to a height of up to one kilometer in a single run -- twice the distance currently feasible. http://www.rferl.org/content/elevator-innovation-carbon-fiber-tape-new-heights/25017120.html http://www.rferl.org/content/elevator-innovation-carbon-fiber-tape-new-heights/25017120.html Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:14:08 +0000 Features internet_team@rferl.org (Antoine Blua) The European Parliament has overwhelmingly passed a resolution calling for the immediate release of opposition politician Ilgar Mammadov, who has been detained since February. http://www.rferl.org/content/eu-slams-baku-detention-mammadov/25016380.html http://www.rferl.org/content/eu-slams-baku-detention-mammadov/25016380.html Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:43:42 +0000 Azerbaijan internet_team@rferl.org (RFE/RL) Azerbaijan's first lady, Mehriban Aliyeva, has never taken a back seat to her powerful husband. But could she replace him as president? http://www.rferl.org/content/azerbaijan-rise-aliyeva/25016294.html http://www.rferl.org/content/azerbaijan-rise-aliyeva/25016294.html Thu, 13 Jun 2013 15:54:36 +0000 Azerbaijan internet_team@rferl.org (Daisy Sindelar) http://www.rferl.org/content/azerbaijan-rise-aliyeva/25016294.html#relatedInfoContainer Twenty-nine people will go on trial in Azerbaijan next month for allegedly plotting terrorist attacks -- including a purported plan to assassinate President Ilham Aliyev -- during last year's Eurovision Song Contest in Baku. http://www.rferl.org/content/azerbaijan-eurovision-terrorism-plot-trial/25016105.html http://www.rferl.org/content/azerbaijan-eurovision-terrorism-plot-trial/25016105.html Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:36:23 +0000 Azerbaijan Police have intervened to prevent a protest by Derbent residents against the renaming of a street in honor of deceased Azerbaijani President Heydar Aliyev, even though the municipal authorities had raised no objection to holding the demonstration. http://www.rferl.org/content/daghestan-street-protests-azerbaijan/25015974.html http://www.rferl.org/content/daghestan-street-protests-azerbaijan/25015974.html Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:45:34 +0000 Caucasus Report http://www.rferl.org/content/daghestan-street-protests-azerbaijan/25015974.html#relatedInfoContainer A district court in the district of Binaqadi in the Azerbaijani capital has sentenced investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova to 220 hours of community service after she refused to pay a fine after being picked up at an antigovernment demonstration. http://www.rferl.org/content/azerbaijan-ismayilova-sentence/25013612.html http://www.rferl.org/content/azerbaijan-ismayilova-sentence/25013612.html Tue, 11 Jun 2013 11:31:10 +0000 Azerbaijan internet_team@rferl.org (RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service) The ruling New Azerbaijan Party has nominated incumbent President Ilham Aliyev as its candidate to run in Azerbaijan's presidential election scheduled for October. http://www.rferl.org/content/azerbaijan-aliyev-nominated-president/25010042.html http://www.rferl.org/content/azerbaijan-aliyev-nominated-president/25010042.html Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:07:59 +0000 Azerbaijan Baku has declared Spain's prominent operatic soprano Montserrat Caballe persona non grata after she visited Azerbaijan's separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh. http://www.rferl.org/content/azerbaijan-montserrat-caballe/25009201.html http://www.rferl.org/content/azerbaijan-montserrat-caballe/25009201.html Thu, 06 Jun 2013 13:35:13 +0000 Azerbaijan Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has signed into law a bill passed by parliament that would criminalize what it calls defamatory and offensive views posted on the Internet. http://www.rferl.org/content/azerbaijan-internet-defamation-law-criminal-aliyev/25008799.html http://www.rferl.org/content/azerbaijan-internet-defamation-law-criminal-aliyev/25008799.html Thu, 06 Jun 2013 09:21:06 +0000 Azerbaijan Years of negotiations mediated by France, Russia, and the United States have failed to produce a settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. http://www.rferl.org/content/us-nagorno-karabakh/25006124.html http://www.rferl.org/content/us-nagorno-karabakh/25006124.html Tue, 04 Jun 2013 02:32:14 +0000 News internet_team@rferl.org (RFE/RL) Azerbaijani activists and authorities alike have been watching with keen interest four days of antigovernment protests in their historic ally, Turkey. But the messages they're taking away may be different. http://www.rferl.org/content/azerbaijan-turkey-protests-politics-rights/25005861.html http://www.rferl.org/content/azerbaijan-turkey-protests-politics-rights/25005861.html Mon, 03 Jun 2013 15:03:11 +0000 Azerbaijan internet_team@rferl.org (Daisy Sindelar) Belgium's postal service says media reports in Azerbaijan about what was essentially a vanity stamp of the late President Heydar Aliyev gave the wrong impression. http://www.rferl.org/content/azerbaijan-belgium-stamp-aliyev-bpost/25003003.html http://www.rferl.org/content/azerbaijan-belgium-stamp-aliyev-bpost/25003003.html Fri, 31 May 2013 09:29:40 +0000 Azerbaijan internet_team@rferl.org (Rikard Jozwiak) Washington says Iran is increasing its support for global terrorism to a level not seen for two decades. http://www.rferl.org/content/article/25002619.html http://www.rferl.org/content/article/25002619.html Fri, 31 May 2013 03:40:34 +0000 Iran The U.S.-based NGO Human Rights Watch has slammed Azerbaijan for arresting political opponents on spurious drugs charges in the run-up to the country’s October presidential election. But it seems Baku is not alone in apparently using such tactics to muzzle dissent. http://www.rferl.org/content/azerbaijan-russia-ukraine-belarus-arrests-drugs-fake-charges/25000902.html http://www.rferl.org/content/azerbaijan-russia-ukraine-belarus-arrests-drugs-fake-charges/25000902.html Wed, 29 May 2013 12:40:50 +0000 Azerbaijan internet_team@rferl.org (Robert Coalson) Azerbaijan says one of its soldiers has been shot dead near the border of the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region. http://www.rferl.org/content/nagorno-karabakh-pace/24998802.html http://www.rferl.org/content/nagorno-karabakh-pace/24998802.html Mon, 27 May 2013 14:22:44 +0000 Azerbaijan The Council of Europe's commissioner for human rights says Azerbaijan needs greater freedom of expression and assembly. http://www.rferl.org/content/azerbaijan-freedom-of-expression/24998687.html http://www.rferl.org/content/azerbaijan-freedom-of-expression/24998687.html Mon, 27 May 2013 12:59:10 +0000 Azerbaijan internet_team@rferl.org (RFE/RL) Human Rights Watch (HRW) says authorities in Azerbaijan are using bogus drug-possession charges to arrest government critics, citing the cases of four activists arrested in separate cases since March. http://www.rferl.org/content/azerbaijan-hrw-media-report-rights-drugs/24998349.html http://www.rferl.org/content/azerbaijan-hrw-media-report-rights-drugs/24998349.html Mon, 27 May 2013 09:19:26 +0000 Watchdog In a new report, the global rights group Amnesty International documents abuses in 159 countries and territories that it says were "inflicted by those in power on those who stand in the way of their vested interests." http://www.rferl.org/content/amnesty-report-2012-human-rights-abuses/24994310.html http://www.rferl.org/content/amnesty-report-2012-human-rights-abuses/24994310.html Wed, 22 May 2013 23:01:26 +0000 Features internet_team@rferl.org (RFE/RL) Forget U.S. missile defense or Syria. What's really got Russia's foreign minister outraged is an alleged voting scandal at this year's Eurovision Song Contest. http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-azerbaijan-eurovision-votes/24993029.html http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-azerbaijan-eurovision-votes/24993029.html Tue, 21 May 2013 15:59:50 +0000 Transmission http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-azerbaijan-eurovision-votes/24993029.html#relatedInfoContainer Azerbaijani scholar Khalida Khalid and her driver have been released following weeks in Iranian custody after their detention at the home of an ethnic Azeri activist. http://www.rferl.org/content/iran-azerbaijan-halid-detention-release/24991169.html http://www.rferl.org/content/iran-azerbaijan-halid-detention-release/24991169.html Mon, 20 May 2013 07:33:45 +0000 Iran internet_team@rferl.org (RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service)