The father of the suspect in a Moscow killing that sparked xenophobic riots and clashes with police over the weekend says the case against his son was "preplanned" and is "political" in nature. RFE/RL Azerbaijani Service correspondent Gulnur Novruzova spoke to the parents of the suspect, Orkhan Zeynalov, in an exclusive interview.
Zahid and Yasemen Zeynalov, the parents of the young Azerbaijani man suspected in the killing of a young Muscovite last week, Orxan Zeynalov, spoke to RFE/RL Azerbaijani Service correspondent Gulnur Novruzova in Seyfali, Azerbaijan, on October 15.
Eid Al-Adha celebrations, tight security at Moscow's main mosque, and an amnesty for high-profile prisoners in Azerbaijan, plus stories from Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Macedonia, and Georgia in a roundup of news from RFE/RL's broadcast countries.
Former Azerbaijani Economy Minister Farhad Aliyev has been released from prison, along with his brother.
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.
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