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Covid-19 total fatalities: Armenia - 521, Azerbaijan - 274, Georgia - 15

July 08, 2020

News, cases and deaths statistics, analysis, focus on the South and North Caucasus. Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, coronavirus pandemic

“Autumn will be even worse” – journalist’s letter criticizing gov’t response to pandemic causes stir in Azerbaijan

July 08, 2020

Azer Garib's post saying that there has been no progress in the fight against the coronavirus because of the disorganized strategy of the authorities received over 16,000 likes

Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials arrested in Azerbaijan for bribery, embezzlement – claim they were ‘helping ministry’

July 07, 2020

One detainee says he spent 80 percent of bribes on the needs of the ministry

Women in politics, army without the coronavirus, summer without tourists - "Past week in the Caucasus" from JAMnews, video

July 05, 2020

A review of what happened in the South Caucasus in the week of June 29-July 4, 2020

Surveillance cameras brought in to monitor quarantine regs in Baku

July 03, 2020

Baku municipality is introducing surveillance cameras to catch violations of the strict quarantine regulations that were recently reintroduced in the country in large society.

Azerbaijan’s economy before and after the pandemic – what to expect and what to be afraid of? Interview with economist

July 02, 2020

Natiq Jafarli: “The only hope of the government is that after the pandemic, the oil price may rise again”

Kura River in Azerbaijan so shallow that the bottom is visible. Who’s to blame – farmers or the gov’t?

July 02, 2020

The Kura River in Azerbaijan has become so shallow the riverbed is visible. Experts point to irresponsible farming practices and the impact of the Mingachevir reservoir

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Life on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border from Soviet times to the present day

July 01, 2020

The first serious Armenian-Azerbaijani clashes occurred in 1990. The border zone experiences periodic flare ups even now

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Armenia: Limited access to education – the unseen consequence of conflict

July 01, 2020

How children live in conflict, how their dreams and reality coexist – according to students themselves and their parents

Azerbaijani police force social media users to apologize on camera for criticising police PR stunt

July 01, 2020

Police have published an apology video on social media from detained citizens

online negotiations, meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh, Zohrab Mnatsakanyan, Elmar Mammadyarov, co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group,

Online negotiations: Armenian and Azerbaijani FMs talk Karabakh

June 30, 2020

During the video call, the possibility of personal meetings and visits to the region by the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group once the epidemiological situation normalizes was discussed

Azerbaijan expedites process of returning citizens stuck on the Dagestan border

June 30, 2020

225 more people will return to their homeland on June 30

Penalty for non-compliance with quarantine rules in Azerbaijan doubled – now it’s $117

June 29, 2020

MPs believe that this will help stop the growth in the number of new infections

Coronavirus in the Caucasus. Sick, dead, recovered - Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia

June 28, 2020

News, cases and deaths statistics, analysis, focus on the South and North Caucasus. Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, coronavirus pandemic

Judges removed, police cheered, tourism postponed. "Past week in the Caucasus" from JAMnews, video

June 28, 2020

Past week's events and news in the South Caucasus - coronavirus resurges, protests erupt again. Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia

“Long live Azerbaijan, long live the police!” – police PR stunt backfires, irks social media users

June 26, 2020

Students in Baku sang a song ‘to the glory of the police’, but social media users are sure that the police are trying to improve their image after recent arrests of quarantine violators

Coronavirus in the Caucasus. Armenia and Azerbaijan report new record number of cases

June 24, 2020

News, cases and deaths statistics, analysis, focus on the South and North Caucasus. Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, coronavirus pandemic

A select few unemployed Azerbaijanis will once again receive $112 in aid

June 24, 2020

The authorities have decided to offer another lump-sum aid payment due to the re-introduction of the strict quarantine regime

Police trying to intercept Baku residents fleeing quarantine via backroads out of city

June 23, 2020

Cameras have been installed on dirt roads leading from Baku to the regions to track violators

Buying foreign currency in Azerbaijan? Explain why you need it

June 22, 2020

Some experts say that a tightening of currency exchange legislation will lead to the growth of a black market

Baku: Hide a coronavirus diagnosis or just ignore it? Why not both?

June 22, 2020

The number of coronavirus cases in Azerbaijan continues to grow and the government has once again introduced a quarantine, but many citizens continue to be unconcerned