Azerbaijan

Husband of 16-year-old girl kills wife in Azerbaijan two weeks after wedding

January 30, 2020

The victim’s wife was 19 years old; the marriage was given permission to go ahead by the local executive authority despite the official marriage being 18

Seven Azerbaijani students unable to leave quarantined Wuhan, China due to virus

January 28, 2020

The Ministry of Education is evacuating 62 students studying in China

Suspect in girl’s brutal murder in Azerbaijan refuses to confess

January 27, 2020

He claims to have testified under torture

TI's Corruption Perception Index 2019: Georgia holds strong, Armenia soars

January 27, 2020

Transparency International says Georgia is the leader in the fight against corruption in the region, while Armenia is ahead of China and things are better in Azerbaijan than in Russia

Baku-Beijing flights canceled – because of business or the coronavirus?

January 27, 2020

According to the official version, flights to Beijing and Guangzhou have been canceled due to low demand

US criticism, elections and accusations - Week in the Caucasus from JAMnews

January 26, 2020

The week of 20-25 January 2020 in just 90 seconds

Curtain closes on opera scandal involving Azerbaijani tenor, Armenian singer

January 24, 2020

Ruzan Mantashyan and Yusif Eyvazov will perform on the same stage in Dresden, despite Eyvazov’s earlier protestations “for political reasons”

Azerbaijani rapper out of prison after scandalous clip taken down from internet

January 22, 2020

The rapper Paster received 30 days in prison after mentioning the large amount of property owned by the presidential family in the lyrics of his song

Top 5 Georgian-Russian import-exports

January 22, 2020

Russia imports Georgian alcohols and ferroalloys, while Georgia needs Russian petroleum products. Along the way: Georgia brings in the most imports from Turkey, the most exports it sends to Azerbaijan

Girl forcibly held by relatives in Azerbaijan escapes to Russia

January 22, 2020

Sevgia Ismayilova says she has been subjected to physical violence in her family since childhood

Int’l human rights NGOs demand Azerbaijani authorities remove investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova from no-fly list

January 21, 2020

Khadija Ismayilova was earlier sentenced to seven and a half years on false charges, but conditionally released in 2016

Record number of hopefuls register for snap parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan

January 20, 2020

A total of 1,534 candidates are running for 125 seats, but there may be even more

Black January – 30 years since the massacre of civilians in Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan

January 20, 2020

In January 1990, more than a hundred people in Baku were killed by bullets or tanks of the Soviet army

Human Rights in the South Caucasus: 2019 victories and losses

January 19, 2020

Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia in the Human Rights Watch report - a comparative analysis

UPDATE: Girl held against her will in Azerbaijan by relatives flees

January 17, 2020

The mother of 18-year-old Sevgia Ismayilova denies that the girl was beaten

Azerbaijani opposition protests high cost of election campaigning on TV – from $13/second on air

January 15, 2020

Many experts and candidates believe that the authorities are thus trying to interfere with the opposition’s election campaign.

Armenia commemorates victims of 1990 pogroms in Baku

January 14, 2020

Accounts of the event that happened 30 years ago from both Armenia and Azerbaijan

Op-ed: 100 synonyms for ‘intimate services’ or How to get a job in Azerbaijan

January 14, 2020

The story of how one job searche turned into a dangerous experiment

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