«Əsgər ölməsin, ordu morqa dönməsin!». Aksiyaçılar əllərində ölən əsgərlərin şəkilləri bu şüarı səsləndiriblər.
Hundreds of people have been demonstrating on Fountains Square in the center of the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, to raise awareness about the deaths of young army conscripts.
Azerbaijani soldier Ceyhun Qubadov died on January 7 of what his officers say was a heart attack. But his relatives say he was beaten to death. The case has raised public concerns about the mistreatment of army conscripts, and an opposition rally to protest the issue has been scheduled for January 12. (RFE/RL's Azerbaijan Service)
Activists in Azerbaijan are calling for a mass gathering on Baku's Fountains Square on January 12 to raise awareness about the deaths of young conscripts in the Azerbaijani army.
A former university rector in Azerbaijan has set off the scandal of the season with a series of videos that appear to implicate Ilham Aliyev's right-hand man in everything from kidnapping to selling off parliament seats for $1 million apiece.
An advertisement showing two male comedians in women's clothes has proven too much to stomach for some in Azerbaijan, where the posters -- for a major mobile-phone operator -- have been withdrawn.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's premier foreign-policy initiative, the Eurasian Customs Union, is showing unprecedented vitality. But the European Union says membership in the ECU is incompatible with closer economic ties with the EU. This confronts many former Soviet states -- especially Ukraine and Moldova -- with a stark choice.
There have been reports that Spanish soccer club Atletico Madrid is set to sign a sponsorship deal with Azerbaijan that will boost the club's finances by millions of dollars.
The Sarajevo-based Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) has named Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev its person of the year -- an ignominious distinction gained by figuring most prominently in crime and corruption stories in the OCCRP's coverage region.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's representative on freedom of the media has welcomed the pardon and release of two jailed journalists and one blogger in Azerbaijan.
Workers at the oil terminal in Georgia's Black Sea port city of Kulevi have gone on strike, demanding higher pay and better working conditions.
The U.S. State Department will request billions of dollars in additional funding from Congress to improve security at diplomatic outposts following the September attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya.
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