Dozens of youths were arrested in Baku today as they attempted to mourn the victims of a mass killing at the State Oil Academy a year ago.
The visit to Ankara earlier this week by Vasif Talybov, chairman of the Naxcivan Autonomous Republic parliament, provided senior Turkish officials with an opportunity to hit back at Armenia in retaliation for Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian's April 22 announcement that the process of ratification of the two Turkish-Armenian protocols signed last October would be suspended.
Russia's new top negotiator on issues surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh visited the capital of the self-proclaimed republic today, RFE/RL's Armenian Service reports.
Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz says Turkey and Azerbaijan have reached an agreement in principle for the price of natural gas, an issue linked to delays on the European Union-backed Nabucco gas pipeline project.
The Azerbaijani parliament today approved a third consecutive five-year term for Prosecutor-General Zakir Qaralov.
The leader of Armenia's Apostolic Church, Catholicos Garegin II, met with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and prayed in an abandoned Armenian church in Baku at the end of his landmark visit to Azerbaijan, RFE/RL's Armenian Service reports.
The trial of imprisoned journalist Eynulla Fatullayev on drug charges resumed today in a Baku court.
Police in the Azerbaijani capital today detained dozens of opposition activists on their way to a rally outside the Mayor's Office.
Полиция пресекла в понедельник попытку проведения несанкционированной акции перед мэрией Баку членами партий, входящих в блок "Азадлыг". Арестованные выкрикивали лозунги с требованием обеспечения свободы собраний и свободы слова в Азербайджане
Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian's announcement on April 22 that he is recalling from parliament the two protocols on normalizing relations with Turkey signed in Geneva last October does not, as Sarkisian himself stressed, signify the end of the process of rapprochement that he has advocated for the past three years.
Religious leaders from Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Russia have called for a peaceful resolution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The call came as the head of Armenia's Apostolic Church made his first-ever visit to Azerbaijan today.
The supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Catholicos Garegin II, will make a first-ever visit to Azerbaijan today to take part in a summit of world religious leaders.
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