http://www.rferl.org/archive/Azerbaijan/latest/652/656.html RFE/RL's latest news, features, commentary, and multimedia content on Azerbaijan http://www.rferl.org/img/rssLogo.gif http://www.rferl.org/archive/Azerbaijan/latest/652/656.html en-US Copyright 2009 - RFE/RL, Inc. 60 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:22:31 +0000 Pangea CMS – RFE/RL Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and his Armenian counterpart, Serzh Sarkisian, are meeting today in the German city of Munich to discuss the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The talks are the latest in a string of meetings this year as the two leaders seek to settle their countries' long-standing dispute. http://www.rferl.org/content/Azerbaijani_Armenian_Presidents_Meeting_Again_To_Discuss_NagornoKarabakh/1884679.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Azerbaijani_Armenian_Presidents_Meeting_Again_To_Discuss_NagornoKarabakh/1884679.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:25:05 +0000 News http://www.rferl.org/content/Azerbaijani_Armenian_Presidents_Meeting_Again_To_Discuss_NagornoKarabakh/1884679.html#relatedInfoContainer Azerbaijan said upcoming talks with Armenia on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict would be "decisive" and warned that its troops were ready to use force to take back the rebel region if they fail, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said. http://www.rferl.org/content/Azerbaijan_Says_Karabakh_Talks_Last_Chance_For_Deal/1884135.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Azerbaijan_Says_Karabakh_Talks_Last_Chance_For_Deal/1884135.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:31:49 +0000 News Jailed Azerbaijani journalist Eynulla Fatullayev is among the winners of the 2009 International Press Freedom Awards, an annual recognition by the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) of journalists working in dangerous or repressive circumstances, RFE/RL's Azerbaijan Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Imprisoned_Azeri_Journalist_Honored_By_CPJ/1883882.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Imprisoned_Azeri_Journalist_Honored_By_CPJ/1883882.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:32:40 +0000 From Our Bureaus Armenia's Foreign Ministry has declared that Yerevan and Ankara will hold no further major negotiations until their parliaments ratify bilateral agreements on closer relations, RFE/RL's Armenian Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Armenia_Says_No_Talks_With_Turkey_Until/1883313.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Armenia_Says_No_Talks_With_Turkey_Until/1883313.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:14:04 +0000 From Our Bureaus Former Armenian President Robert Kocharian has dismissed opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrossian's criticism about his policies on Turkey and Nagorno-Karabakh, RFE/RL's Armenian Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Former_Armenian_President_Rejects_TerPetrossians_Criticism/1882833.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Former_Armenian_President_Rejects_TerPetrossians_Criticism/1882833.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:27:02 +0000 From Our Bureaus Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has accused Armenia of delaying efforts to resolve the conflict over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Azerbaijani_President_Criticizes_Armenia_On_Karabakh_Talks/1882645.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Azerbaijani_President_Criticizes_Armenia_On_Karabakh_Talks/1882645.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:41:51 +0000 From Our Bureaus The following is a guest post from Ali S. Novruzov, an Azerbaijani who blogs over at "In Mutatione Fortitudo. He describes how the arrest and conviction of the "donkey bloggers" have pushed the country's youth activists into finding creative ways to get their message out using new technologies. http://www.rferl.org/content/How_We_Used_Facebook_To_Try_To_Free_Azerbaijans_Donkey_Bloggers/1882215.html http://www.rferl.org/content/How_We_Used_Facebook_To_Try_To_Free_Azerbaijans_Donkey_Bloggers/1882215.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:27:48 +0000 Transmission http://www.rferl.org/content/How_We_Used_Facebook_To_Try_To_Free_Azerbaijans_Donkey_Bloggers/1882215.html#relatedInfoContainer Ali Hasanov, head of the Azerbaijani president's Social and Political Affairs Department, said Azerbaijani law "applies equally to everyone and there is no special treatment for intellectuals and those who are closer to the West, like the bloggers." http://www.rferl.org/content/Baku_Official_Slams_Biased_Reaction_To_Bloggers_Verdict/1880827.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Baku_Official_Slams_Biased_Reaction_To_Bloggers_Verdict/1880827.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:56:09 +0000 From Our Bureaus http://www.rferl.org/content/Baku_Official_Slams_Biased_Reaction_To_Bloggers_Verdict/1880827.html#relatedInfoContainer The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry has accused Germany and Norway of interference in Baku's internal affairs in connection with the cases against Adnan Hajizada and Emin Milli, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Azerbaijan_Hits_Out_At_Germany_Norway_Over_Bloggers/1880788.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Azerbaijan_Hits_Out_At_Germany_Norway_Over_Bloggers/1880788.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:11:09 +0000 From Our Bureaus http://www.rferl.org/content/Azerbaijan_Hits_Out_At_Germany_Norway_Over_Bloggers/1880788.html#relatedInfoContainer Azerbaijani physicist Rashid Aliyev, who had worked for the Iranian Sazan Electronics Industry Company (SEIC), was arrested on October 5 upon arriving in Tehran from Azerbaijan. http://www.rferl.org/content/Iranian_Court_Refuses_To_Release_Azerbaijani_Scientist/1878865.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Iranian_Court_Refuses_To_Release_Azerbaijani_Scientist/1878865.html Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:00:49 +0000 From Our Bureaus A Baku court this week sentenced two young Azerbaijani bloggers, Adnan Hajizada and Emin Milli, to two and 2 1/2 years in prison on hooliganism charges, in a case that has brought international attention to declining media freedoms in the oil-rich South Caucasus state. RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service discussed the issue with Thorbjorn Jagland, the secretary-general of the Council of Europe. http://www.rferl.org/content/Council_Of_Europe_Head_Very_Concerned_About_Human_Rights_In_Azerbaijan/1877804.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Council_Of_Europe_Head_Very_Concerned_About_Human_Rights_In_Azerbaijan/1877804.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:13:18 +0000 Features http://www.rferl.org/content/Council_Of_Europe_Head_Very_Concerned_About_Human_Rights_In_Azerbaijan/1877804.html#relatedInfoContainer Adam Michnik, the editor in chief of Poland's "Gazeta Wyborcza" and a leading member of the Polish democratic opposition from 1968 to 1989, was in Prague this week to attend a conference marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Iron Curtain. He spoke to Irina Lagunina of RFE/RL's Russian Service about Russia, the West, and the post-Soviet letdown felt in the former Eastern bloc countries. http://www.rferl.org/content/Twenty_Years_After_Communisms_Fall_Polish_Dissident_Says_Life_Probably_Not_A_Paradise_But_Its_Not_Hell_Anymore/1877551.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Twenty_Years_After_Communisms_Fall_Polish_Dissident_Says_Life_Probably_Not_A_Paradise_But_Its_Not_Hell_Anymore/1877551.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:58:06 +0000 Features http://www.rferl.org/content/Twenty_Years_After_Communisms_Fall_Polish_Dissident_Says_Life_Probably_Not_A_Paradise_But_Its_Not_Hell_Anymore/1877551.html#relatedInfoContainer The World Health Organization (WHO) says antiviral medicines like Tamiflu should be used much earlier by doctors in order to prevent deaths from swine flu. The UN agency also says it is sending more supplies of antivirals to developing countries most affected by swine flu. Those countries include Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, and Ukraine. http://www.rferl.org/content/Amplifier_WHO_Urges_Doctors_To_Use_Antiviral_Drugs_Sooner_To_Prevent_Swine_Flu_Deaths/1877353.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Amplifier_WHO_Urges_Doctors_To_Use_Antiviral_Drugs_Sooner_To_Prevent_Swine_Flu_Deaths/1877353.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:10:01 +0000 News http://www.rferl.org/content/Amplifier_WHO_Urges_Doctors_To_Use_Antiviral_Drugs_Sooner_To_Prevent_Swine_Flu_Deaths/1877353.html#relatedInfoContainer Before the autumn revolutions in Eastern Europe, there was the Moscow Spring in the Soviet Union. In 1989, Mikhail Gorbachev's reform policies hit their high-water mark, as the USSR held its first competitive elections, press freedom flourished, and civil society awakened. http://www.rferl.org/content/Revolutions_of_89_The_Moscow_Spring/1876450.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Revolutions_of_89_The_Moscow_Spring/1876450.html Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:14:45 +0000 Features http://www.rferl.org/content/Revolutions_of_89_The_Moscow_Spring/1876450.html#relatedInfoContainer Azerbaijan's budget deficit for next year is predicted to reach 1.25 billion manats, or $1.56 billion, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Azerbaijans_Budget_Deficit_To_Exceed_15_Billion/1875153.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Azerbaijans_Budget_Deficit_To_Exceed_15_Billion/1875153.html Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:33:52 +0000 From Our Bureaus RFE/RL Azerbaijani Service Director Kenan Aliyev talks about the significance of the conviction and jail sentences handed down today against bloggers Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizada in the context of Azerbaijan's tightly controlled media environment. http://www.rferl.org/content/Jail_Time_Ordered_For_Azerbaijani_Bloggers/1875030.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Jail_Time_Ordered_For_Azerbaijani_Bloggers/1875030.html Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:04:29 +0000 Watchdog http://www.rferl.org/content/Jail_Time_Ordered_For_Azerbaijani_Bloggers/1875030.html#relatedInfoContainer Bloggers Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizada have been sentenced by an Azerbaijani court to at least two years in prison on hooliganism charges that the defendants and rights groups have dismissed as politically motivated. http://www.rferl.org/content/Azerbaijan_Bloggers_Get_TwoYear_Jail_Sentences/1874853.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Azerbaijan_Bloggers_Get_TwoYear_Jail_Sentences/1874853.html Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:43:04 +0000 From Our Bureaus http://www.rferl.org/content/Azerbaijan_Bloggers_Get_TwoYear_Jail_Sentences/1874853.html#relatedInfoContainer As the swine-flu virus continues to spread through the Balkans and the former Soviet Union, the measures taken by some governments range from bizarre and befuddled to possibly political. http://www.rferl.org/content/Swine_Flu_Follies_A_Regional_Roundup/1874396.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Swine_Flu_Follies_A_Regional_Roundup/1874396.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:11:26 +0000 Features http://www.rferl.org/content/Swine_Flu_Follies_A_Regional_Roundup/1874396.html#relatedInfoContainer Azerbaijani Interior Minister Ramil Usubov has filed a libel lawsuit against lawyer and newspaper editor Eyyub Karimov, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Azerbaijani_Official_Sues_Editor_Critical_Of_Interior_Ministry/1874135.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Azerbaijani_Official_Sues_Editor_Critical_Of_Interior_Ministry/1874135.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:10:24 +0000 From Our Bureaus International mediators say the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed to hold talks on the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute later this month, RFE/RL's Armenian Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Armenian_Azerbaijani_Leaders_Agree_To_Meet_Again/1873893.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Armenian_Azerbaijani_Leaders_Agree_To_Meet_Again/1873893.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:43:52 +0000 From Our Bureaus The U.S. State Department has strongly denied an Azerbaijani media report that alleges Washington threatened to recognize Nagorno-Karabakh as an independent state unless Baku commits to a peaceful resolution of the Armenian-Azerbaijani dispute over that territory, RFE/RL's Armenian Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/US_Embassy_Denies_Karabakh_Recognition_Threat_/1871501.html http://www.rferl.org/content/US_Embassy_Denies_Karabakh_Recognition_Threat_/1871501.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:22:33 +0000 From Our Bureaus The first swine flu case has been officially confirmed in Azerbaijan, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/First_Swine_Flu_Case_Reported_In_Azerbaijan/1871225.html http://www.rferl.org/content/First_Swine_Flu_Case_Reported_In_Azerbaijan/1871225.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:42:44 +0000 From Our Bureaus The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) is supporting calls to prosecute anyone in Nagorno-Karabakh who publicly advocates the return of Azerbaijani territories that are now controlled by Karabakh Armenians, RFE/RL's Armenian Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Armenian_Party_Seeks_To_Criminalize_Talk_Of_Karabakh_Concessions_/1870903.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Armenian_Party_Seeks_To_Criminalize_Talk_Of_Karabakh_Concessions_/1870903.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:08:43 +0000 From Our Bureaus Last week’s announcement that the next Russian census will be held in 2010 as originally scheduled is welcome news indeed. There had been considerable speculation that the census had been delayed largely for political reasons, and it is encouraging to think that the opinions of experts who say the census information is crucially needed were heeded in this case. http://www.rferl.org/content/Russia_Is_Dying_To_Learn_Its_Census_Data/1869329.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Russia_Is_Dying_To_Learn_Its_Census_Data/1869329.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:38:55 +0000 Commentary http://www.rferl.org/content/Russia_Is_Dying_To_Learn_Its_Census_Data/1869329.html#relatedInfoContainer Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian defended his reconciliation policy with Turkey at a meeting of leading clerical and secular representatives of the Armenian Apostolic Church on November, RFE/RL's Armenian Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Armenian_President_Defends_Turkey_Policy/1869223.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Armenian_President_Defends_Turkey_Policy/1869223.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:17:53 +0000 From Our Bureaus Some mosques in the Azerbaijani cities of Baku and Ganca have lowered the volume of their morning call to prayer as of November 1, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Azerbaijani_Mosques_Ordered_To_Turn_Down_Call_To_Prayer/1868512.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Azerbaijani_Mosques_Ordered_To_Turn_Down_Call_To_Prayer/1868512.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:03:40 +0000 From Our Bureaus The European Union's special representative to the South Caucasus, Peter Semneby, said he hopes the rapprochement protocols signed by Armenia and Turkey will be ratified soon, RFE/RL's Armenian Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/EU_Envoy_Hopes_TurkeyArmenia_Protocols_Approved_Soon/1867525.html http://www.rferl.org/content/EU_Envoy_Hopes_TurkeyArmenia_Protocols_Approved_Soon/1867525.html Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:52:45 +0000 From Our Bureaus The Palestinian Authority has announced that it will open an embassy in Azerbaijan, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Palestinian_Authority_To_Open_Embassy_In_Baku_/1866083.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Palestinian_Authority_To_Open_Embassy_In_Baku_/1866083.html Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:58:28 +0000 From Our Bureaus Sent by one of our readers, Ahmed Mukhtar, to our Azerbaijani Service's "Mobile Reporter" page. http://www.rferl.org/content/Photo_Of_The_Day/1862683.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Photo_Of_The_Day/1862683.html Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:43:14 +0000 Transmission http://www.rferl.org/content/Photo_Of_The_Day/1862683.html#relatedInfoContainer A Turkish parliamentary delegation has arrived in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, for a visit aimed at easing tensions over Turkey's rapprochement with Armenia, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Turkish_Parliamentary_Delegation_In_Baku/1862478.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Turkish_Parliamentary_Delegation_In_Baku/1862478.html Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:21:40 +0000 From Our Bureaus Foreign ministers of the three South Caucasus countries today met with an EU troika of top officials in Luxembourg. The routine meeting takes place yearly under the aegis of the Partnership and Cooperation Agreements the EU has with Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. The EU is offering all three countries an upgrade to an Association Treaty, which could eventually bring with it free trade and visa-free travel, but would not open the door to EU membership. http://www.rferl.org/content/EU_Reviews_Cooperation_With_The_South_Caucasus/1861508.html http://www.rferl.org/content/EU_Reviews_Cooperation_With_The_South_Caucasus/1861508.html Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:24:02 +0000 Features http://www.rferl.org/content/EU_Reviews_Cooperation_With_The_South_Caucasus/1861508.html#relatedInfoContainer