Kenan Aliyev

Also by Kenan Aliyev

• October 09, 2013

  Who Are The Shadowy Western Observers Weighing In On Azerbaijan's Election?

  Several shadowy Western election-observation groups are in Azerbaijan this week to monitor the presidential vote. Just who are they and where do they get their funding?

• August 21, 2013

  Double-Standard Bearer?

  The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is mandated to uphold democratic values. So some are asking why its linked to an Azerbaijani trial that critics are calling a blow to free speech.

• March 21, 2013

  Baku Leans On NGOs As Presidential Election Nears

  Azerbaijan has been on the offensive against NGOs and has asked the OSCE to downgrade its Baku mission. Activists say the administration is preparing the ground for President Ilham Aliyev to win a third presidential term in October.

• May 14, 2011

  Ethnicity Plays Second Fiddle At Eurovision Music Fest

  The popular Eurovision song contest is down to 10 candidates ahead of the final on May 14, but with all the songs in English and only Bosnia bringing any traditional instruments on stage, the contest seems less a celebration of musical diversity and more a fete to the universal appeal of pop.

• January 20, 2010

  Azerbaijan Remembers 'Black January'

  Twenty years ago today, on January 20, 1990, Soviet troops stormed Baku by order of the Kremlin in an ultimately failed attempt to save Communist rule and put down Azerbaijan's independence movement.

• October 15, 2008

  Forget The Azeri Vote, Let's Look At The Record

  The October 15 presidential election in Azerbaijan has challenged even the most inventive reporters. Voters seem bored and apathetic, there are no true opposition candidates, and even the ruling Yeni Azerbaycan Party hasn't bothered to campaign much. They don't need to.

• September 02, 2008

  Coalition Of The Weak 'Chickens Out'

  With the exception of Ukraine and the Baltic states, none of the republics of the former Soviet Union has vigorously protested Russia's recent aggression in Georgia and its subsequent recognition of the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Their silence indicates that Russia is surrounded by weak states whose governments are the products of personal alliances, rigged elections, and political coercion, and therefore lack popular legitimacy.

• June 24, 2008

  Does Council Of Europe Matter In Azerbaijan?

  Many of Azerbaijan's democratic failures have occurred in plain view of the continent's preeminent rights and democracy organization. Nearly eight years after admission, how useful has the Council of Europe been to the country's development?