Azerbaijani social-media activists have launched a Facebook campaign called the Great Movement of the People in an attempt to strengthen public supervision of government actions it considers illegal.
Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian inspected military facilities in the breakaway Azerbaijani region of Nagorno-Karabakh and met with Karabakh Armenian army commanders during a visit that ended today.
A video by RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service shows traffic police officers stopping cars on December 31 and seemingly taking bribes. On the same day, President Ilham Aliyev spoke to the nation and talked about his government's "fierce fight against corruption."
Matthew Bryza, the U.S. ambassador to Azerbaijan who has faced stiff opposition, is heading back to Washington following the U.S. Senate's decision to go into recess without voting on his appointment.
A Baku court has rejected an appeal by a former parliament candidate and social media activist for early release from his prison term.
A Forum of Intelligentsia of Azerbaijan meeting in Baku has been canceled when the hotel used as the venue said it could not host the meeting due to "technical problems."
Deputies in the parliament of the breakaway Azerbaijani region of Nagorno-Karabakh have approved a 2012 budget for the Armenian-controlled territory that projects less spending and robust economic growth.
The relatives of an Azerbaijani opposition member who was remanded in custody for three months say he has now been hospitalized after allegedly being tortured.
An Azerbaijani opposition member has been remanded in custody for three months on charges of faking his disability and stealing from the state.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who has involved himself extensively in talks on the conflict over the breakaway Azerbaijani region of Nagorno-Karabakh, says the problem can still be resolved in the near future despite an impasse in Armenian-Azerbaijani talks.
Azerbaijani officials have expressed their disapproval of French legislation that makes it illegal to deny that the mass killing of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey nearly a century ago was genocide.
In this year-ender edition of The Blender, we look at three hot spots, Afghanistan, Belarus, and Azerbaijan and talk to our service directors about the major developments of 2011.
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