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.
Azerbaijan's political opposition groups have united to nominate a single candidate for October's presidential election.
RFE/RL Armenian Service correspondent Sargis Harutyunyan spoke with author Thomas de Waal, a senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, to mark the 10th-anniversary edition of his book "The Black Garden: Armenia And Azerbaijan Through Peace And War." He talked about how the conflict over the ethnic-Armenian Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan has changed over the last decade.
According to British journalist and writer on the Caucasus Thomas de Waal, a resumption of hostilities in the Nagorno-Karabakh region is unlikely. (RFE/RL's Armenian Service)
Croatia, which joined the European Union on July 1, is likely to be the last addition for some time. Other Balkan states are likely to follow suit, but it's likely to take at least another decade. As for the EU's neighbors to the east, their journey to membership is rockier still.
The U.S. State Department statement called the move “another important step in the process of advancing Europe’s energy security."
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