Azerbaijan

Flying drone with Nagorno-Karabakh flag interrupts football match in Luxembourg

October 05, 2019

Armenian football hooligans have claimed responsibility for the provocation

Azerbaijani grand master wins Chess World Cup

October 05, 2019

Teymur Rajabov received $110,000 and a chance to compete with current world champion, Norwegian Magnus Carlsen.

Independent Azerbaijani theatre suing Ministry of Culture for right to perform in street

October 03, 2019

For two years, the ADO Theater has not been permitted to stage street performances and no justification has been given.

The Great Wall of Baku – residents of Azerbaijani capital outraged by 10-meter pedestrian bridge

October 03, 2019

The low-functioning, above-ground and underground passages constantly cause discontent among Bakuvians. But this is the first time the public has raised such protest

Op-Ed: Why it is so hard to be a pacifist in Azerbaijan

September 25, 2019

“Traitors” and bloodthirsty love for the motherland

Azerbaijani prisoner of conscience Afghan Mukhtarli ends hunger strike after health deterioration

September 23, 2019

Mukhtarli was on hunger strike for three days

Azerbaijani opposition leader resigns after daughter’s accusation of domestic violence

September 21, 2019

Fuad Qahramanli refutes his daughters words and says that he resigned “for the sake of his leader and party”

To be a woman: Art festival on promoting gender equality in Baku

September 21, 2019

Many films with female protagonists, open-air concerts and evenings at an old factory

Baku dog owner takes police to court over ‘unlawful’ fine – and wins

September 18, 2019

Oleg Amirov claims the police extorted money from him, unlawfully accusing him of not having muzzles on his two dogs

Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championship in Baku: 300 gymnasts from 61 countries

September 17, 2019

Winners will go to the Tokyo Olympics

Azerbaijan debates unemployment rate: is it 5%, 14% or 20%?

September 16, 2019

Independent experts put the number at 20%

Who should choose the bride: parents or sons? Baku

September 15, 2019

“I’ll marry whoever mama wants.” How popular is this old tradition still?

Azerbaijani MIA says new anti-prostitution patrol not ‘morality police’

September 14, 2019

The public is trying to decide whether this means fighting prostitution or something else

Yerevan says it’s ready to block any rapprochement by Baku with Russian military bloc

Azerbaijan-Armenia

September 14, 2019

Armenia, a member of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, has the right to veto

School director put on trial in case of teenage girl suicide in Azerbaijan

September 12, 2019

Elina Ghadzieva’s parents are demanding 59,000 USD in compensation

Official meetings and dinner with the opposition - Council of Europe representative visits Azerbaijan

September 10, 2019

In January 2020, Thorhildur Sunna will report on the state of human rights in the country.

Blood donations instead of flagellation – more than 1,500 liters of blood gathered on Ashura in Azerbaijan

September 10, 2019

Shiite Muslims are celebrating Ashura today – a commemoration of the martyrdom of the grandson of the prophet Muhammad

Are cancer rates on the rise in Azerbaijan?

September 08, 2019

The rate of oncological diseases has risen 200% in 14 years

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