UNESCO decided at a meeting in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, on December 3 to include the game of "chovqan" on its Intangible Cultural Heritage list.
The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan are due to discuss the issue of the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh in Kyiv on December 4.
The Azerbaijani government has announced a sharp increase in prices for gasoline and natural gas.
Transparency International is warning that the abuse of power, secret dealings, and bribery within the public sector continue to "ravage" countries around the world, including in the former Soviet Commonwealth of Independent States.
An Azerbaijani border officer was killed during a shootout along the Azerbaijani-Iranian frontier.
On December 2-7, members of the United Nations' cultural agency UNESCO are meeting in the Azerbaijani capital Baku to consider which traditions, rituals, and crafts to add this year to its list of endangered Intangible Cultural Heritage. This year's applicants include everything from Mongolian yurt-making to Turkish coffee to polo played in Azerbaijan.
EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele told a civil society conference in Vilnius on November 28 that Kyiv was missing a "unique opportunity to reverse a discouraging trend of decreasing foreign direct investment in Ukraine and to give momentum to negotiations with the IMF on a new stand-by arrangement."
Unlike Georgia and Moldova, Baku is still negotiating its EU Association Agreement and won't be ready to initial a deal at this week's Vilnius summit. We spoke to Azerbaijanis in their capital about whether they support or oppose integration with the European Union.
Azerbaijani security forces say they have apprehended a third member of a group that allegedly planned to blow up a mosque in the capital, Baku.
EU and Eastern Partnership officials have been busy reworking a draft final declaration for this week's summit in Vilnius.
The Baku Court for Serious Crimes has sentenced 29 people for plotting terrorist attacks during last year's Eurovision Song Contest in Baku.
The peace process has to all intents and purposes been deadlocked since June 2011, when hopes that Azerbaijan's Ilham Aliyev and Armenia's Serzh Sarkisian would sign a formal peace agreement during a summit in Kazan proved misplaced.
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