Two people in Azerbaijan have been diagnosed with H1N1, or swine flu, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service reports.
Gallup today released results of a poll conducted in 12 of the 15 former Soviet countries (they left out Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) asking people how they think about their leaders. And the results raised some eyebrows in the newsroom.
United Nations human rights experts asked Azerbaijan on July 31 to stop curbing free speech and to protect journalists from harassment, violence, and even murder.
The special rapporteur on political prisoners for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has demanded the release of two Azerbaijani bloggers being held in a Baku jail, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service reports.
In direct violation of Azerbaijan's commitments as a member of the Council of Europe, the authorities continue their relentless crackdown on all forms of dissent, including that by a new generation of young activists. If Azerbaijan becomes as authoritarian as Belarus or Turkmenistan, this would be a big loss for Western interests in the region.
Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian says that he will not accept Turkish President Abdullah Gul's invitation to watch the two countries' soccer teams play in Turkey unless Ankara takes steps to open the Turkish-Armenian border, RFE/RL's Armenian Service reports.
Azerbaijani religious rights activists protested the detention of 11 people in the town of Ganja for participating in illegal gatherings and spreading religious propaganda, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service reports.
The French, Russian, and U.S. co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group that seeks to mediate a political solution to the Karabakh conflict have modified the so-called Madrid Principles intended to serve as the basis for such an agreement, U.S. co-Chairman Matthew Bryza told RFE/RL's Armenian Service on July 27 following two days of consultations in Krakow with his fellow co-chairs.
Turkmenistan is preparing to take Azerbaijan to international court to resolve a long-standing dispute over ownership of three oil and gas fields in the Caspian Sea. A recent bilateral thaw had fueled hopes of a new era of cooperation that could lead to the construction of a pipeline to bring Turkmen gas across the Caspian to Azerbaijan and on to Europe.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Minsk Group cochairs met in Krakow on July 24 to update the proposals for a solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, called the Madrid Principles, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service reports.
Looking at media coverage of Nabucco, one would think the strategic project to bring Caspian gas to European markets while bypassing Russia was already under construction. But competing visions are still on track to eclipse EU and U.S.-backed ambitions.
Daghestan Interior Ministry spokesman Colonel Mark Tolchinsky was quoted on July 22 by the Russian news agency Regnum as saying his ministry has no information that would corroborate allegations that a group of Islamic militants crossed from Daghestan into Azerbaijani territory one week earlier.
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