The EU Commission has published a list of 250 energy infrastructure projects, including several in the Western Balkans and Eastern Neighborhood, that are eligible for EU funding from 2014-20.
Thirteen people, most of them foreign nationals, have been killed in a latenight collision between a minibus and a truck in the southern Russian region of Samara.
Opposition activists held a demonstration at a stadium in Azerbaijan’s capital to rally against the landslide election victory of President Ilham Aliyev earlier this week.
Baku has dismissed the Western criticism of Azerbaijan's recent presidential election, in which President Ilham Aliyev was reelected to a third term in office with a landslide victory.
The U.S. State Department has said that Azerbaijan's presidential election fell short of international standards.
Observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) have announced that the October 9 presidential election in Azerbaijan was "seriously flawed," marred by media restrictions and intimidation of voters and candidates. The news conference in Baku degenerated into chaos as some pro-government reporters interrupted the observers and shouted, "The OSCE is biased," clapping their hands and forcing the speakers to cut short the press conference and leave the venue. (RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service)
Azerbaijani united opposition candidate Camil Hasanli says he will challenge in court President Ilham Aliyev's victory in the country's October 9 presidential election.
President Ilham Aliyev thanked the people of Azerbaijan for electing him to a third five-year term in a television appearance after polls closed in the October 9 election.
The OSCE monitors told a news conference in Baku on October 10 that the poll was marred by a "restrictive media environment" and allegations of intimidation of candidates and voters.
Several shadowy Western election-observation groups are in Azerbaijan this week to monitor the presidential vote. Just who are they and where do they get their funding?
A new mobile-phone application unveiled in Azerbaijan appears to have released presidential election results one day before the actual vote. Voters who downloaded the application on October 8 found out that incumbent President Ilham Aliyev had won the October 9 election in a landslide.
Azerbaijanis voting in a presidential election amid fraud allegations, activists protesting the closure of schools in Afghanistan, a Belarusian publisher struggling to restore his license, and stories from Pakistan and Tajikistan in a roundup of news from the countries covered by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
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