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Nagorno-Karabakh: Expect Status Quo in 2013-14 2 Jun 2013 | 08:52 pm
Two decades of international community administered talks between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh, a predominantly Armenian enclave inside Azerbaijani territory, have failed to reach a re...
Prisoner of the Mountains (1996) 28 Apr 2013 | 09:11 pm
The conflict between Russia and the territory of Chechnya is the backdrop for this film. In it two Russian soldiers are taken away to a Chechen village after their group is ambushed. The reason they a...
Georgian Elections Again an International Affair 15 Sep 2012 | 05:21 am
Nestled among gorgeous mountains, blessed with exotic cuisine, and loved for its arts and outgoing people, Georgia has many suitors. Long courted by her northern Russian neighbor, she has in recent ye...
Peace Activist Threatened in Armenia, Azerbaijani Film Festival Cancelled 14 Apr 2012 | 02:44 pm
Georgi Vanyan. Photo: Onnik Krikorian When I first met Georgi Vanyan back in 2009, I couldn’t hide my excitement. For me that middle-aged man who smoked one cigarette after another and had sadness...
Peace Activist Threatened in Armenia, Azerbaijani Film Festival Cancelled 14 Apr 2012 | 07:44 am
When I first met Georgi Vanyan back in 2009, I couldn’t hide my excitement. For me that middle-aged man who smoked one cigarette after another and had sadness in his eyes, even when he smiled, was equ...
Baku Protests Foreign Policy’s Assertion of Airbase Access for Israel 6 Apr 2012 | 11:55 am
Presidents Shimon Peres (left) and Ilham Aliyev in Baku, Azerbaijan in 2009. Credit: AFP It’s just so hard to launch an international bash these days. Everyone’s a critic. Just ask Azerbaijan. Prepa...
Baku Protests Foreign Policy’s Assertion of Airbase Access for Israel 6 Apr 2012 | 07:55 am
It’s just so hard to launch an international bash these days. Everyone’s a critic. Just ask Azerbaijan. Preparations for Eurovision, one of Europe’s biggest song contests to be held in May in Baku, ar...
UPDATE: Peaceful Activists Arrested, Amnesty International Reports Torture Fears 21 Mar 2012 | 08:07 am
From left to right: Etibar Salmanli, Jamal Ali, Natig Kamilov at the protest on March 17 in Baku, Azerbaijan. Credit: Free Photoreporters Union The sanctioned peaceful protest that took place in Azer...
UPDATE: Peaceful Activists Arrested, Amnesty International Reports Torture Fears 21 Mar 2012 | 04:07 am
The sanctioned peaceful protest that took place in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku on Saturday, March 17 resulted in arrest of three activists. Members of Bulistan band Jamal Ali, 24, and Natig Kamilov, 24,...
Azerbaijan: Blackmail Video Made Public, Possible Imminent Release of Political Prisoners 15 Mar 2012 | 04:24 pm
Khadija Ismayilova, left center, shaking hands (credit: RFE/RL Dragan Milojevic) It was bound to happen, although I prayed that it wouldn’t. But at least one web site in Azerbaijan has now released t...
