The Azerbaijani opposition's pick for president, Rustam Ibragimbekov, has vowed to return to Baku next week, despite fearing arrest.
Azerbaijan, which languishes near the bottom of media-freedom rankings, has awarded apartments to some 150 journalists -- all in one Baku apartment block.
The Georgian village of Tsopi, located just a few kilometers from the Armenian border, is home to both ethnic Azeris and ethnic Armenians. Although tensions linger between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh war of the 1990s, the two groups coexist peacefully in this remote Georgian setting.
Speaking beside Azerbaijani opposition figures and government officials, Thomas Melia, the U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights, and labor, told a U.S. Helsinki Commission hearing that facilitating free and fair elections "doesn't take place on election day, but throughout these next several months."
Three youth activists in Azerbaijan have been sentenced to 15 days in jail for distributing antigovernment stickers and leaflets.
The world’s largest public-opinion survey on corruption shows that more than half of respondents believe graft has worsened in their country in the past two years.
Azerbaijan says it will allow monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to observe its presidential elections this autumn.
The real crime in a growing number of cases in Azerbaijan is not hooliganism or any of the other accusations but criticism of the ruling regime, argues Rebecca Vincent. People are serving serious jail time in Azerbaijan for simply disagreeing with the government.
What do you call free, internet-based classes taught by professors from top U.S. schools? They're known as "massive open online courses," or "MOOCs." But some are simply calling them an educational revolution.
Thomas de Waal of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, author of the book "The Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War," talks about the conflict around the ethnic-Armenian Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijan's opposition National Council has nominated celebrated screenwriter Rustam Ibragimbekov as its presidential candidate in the October election. Revered by the cultural elite for films such as "White Sun of the Desert" and "Burnt by the Sun," Ibragimbekov also enjoys support in Russia and the United States and may go far in shaking up Azerbaijan's election season as autocrat Ilham Aliyev seeks a controversial third term.
Twenty-nine people have gone on trial in Azerbaijan for allegedly plotting terrorist attacks, including a plan to assassinate President Ilham Aliyev, during last year's Eurovision Song Contest in Baku.
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