Baku says that Azerbaijani human rights activists Leyla Yunus and her husband, Arif Yunus, are not permitted to travel abroad to receive medical treatment.
Azerbaijan and its breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh have accused each other of violating a cease-fire with intense shelling.
Turkey and Azerbaijan have launched joint air force exercises, media in Azerbaijan have reported.
The Azerbaijani capital, Baku, is preparing to host its first Formula 1 Grand Prix in June. The race route runs through parts of the city's historic center, where some cobbled streets have been covered in fresh asphalt. Some residents fear the Old City's character has been harmed in the process.
The European Commission on March 3 gave its approval to a deal with Greece for the construction of a pipeline meant to transport natural gas from Azerbaijan to the European Union.
A former U.S. congressman has resigned as chairman of a central player in the multimillion-dollar Azerbaijani lobbying effort to court American support for the ex-Soviet republic's authoritarian government, saying he has not been paid for his services "in a year."
Azerbaijan's Supreme Court has upheld the imprisonment of the Caucasus nation's noted lawyer Intiqam Aliyev.
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev and Iranian counterpart Hassan Rohani have met in Tehran to discuss bilateral ties.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev will make an official visit to Iran on February 23.
Armenia plans to abandon its "static defense" strategy and switch to a more active deterrence in its standoff with Azerbaijani troops in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone, an Armenian official said.
Azerbaijan’s capital city has had a dramatic few years. When the oil money rolled in, the skyscrapers went up. But today the country is reeling from crashing oil prices, and Baku has even resorted to switching off its streetlights to save money. The capital is a now a complex patchwork of glittering new developments, poor neighborhoods, and residents who carry on regardless of Baku's changing fortunes. RFE/RL photographer Petr Shelomovskiy explored the promenades and backstreets of a city in flux.
To save money, Baku has turned off public lighting at night. The capital of Azerbaijan has often promoted itself to tourists as the "Bright Lights of Baku." But the recent economic crisis and the dive in oil prices have forced the country to tighten its purse strings. (RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service)
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