Separatist authorities are staging a presidential election in Nagorno-Karabakh, the ethnic Armenian-controlled region of Azerbaijan, in a move that's been condemned by Baku as "illegitimate."
Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry says it will declare all foreign citizens who travel to the Armenian-controlled Nagorno-Karabakh territory to observe a presidential poll in the breakaway region on July 19 to be personae non gratae.
Military exercises called Rapid Trident 2012 have officially started in Ukraine.
Elections for the de facto president of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic will take place on July 19.
Changing passports to compete for another country has long been common practice among athletes. But as the Olympic Games prepare to kick off, the incidences are growing.
Athletes from RFE/RL's broadcast region have provided plenty of Olympic thrills and spills over the years. Here's a quick pick of some of their best (and worst) moments from the Summer Olympics.
Azerbaijan's first head of state, Ayaz Mutalibov, has returned to Baku after two decades of exile in Russia.
EU President Herman van Rompuy has called on the government of Azerbaijan to improve civil and political rights in that oil-rich former Soviet republic.
A lawyer for Hilal Mamedov said his client was facing charges by Azerbaijani authorities of high treason and incitement of ethnic, religious, and racial hatred. It's a case that's widely seen as politically motivated.
Iran's state English language Press TV cites accusations that the two Azerbaijani nationals were on a mission to recruit a number of dissidents in Iran to promote separatism.
The Russian government raised eyebrows recently by asking filmmakers to portray people from the Caucasus in a more positive light. RFE/RL takes a look at screen images of Caucasians from the days of Soviet silent film up to the 2008 Russian-Georgian war.
Beginning on June 28, Baku is hosting the 23rd annual meeting of the Crans Montana Forum, an "international organization" founded in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, which "works for the promotion of international cooperation and contributes to global growth while ensuring a high level of stability, equity, and security."
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