Azerbaijan

  • Feb 8, 2013
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Azerbaijan's satellite boosts not just communications

Early this morning an Ariane 5 rocket launched from Guyana put Azerbaijan's first satellite,...

Azerbaijan
  • Feb 4, 2013
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Azerbaijani officials profit by demonising Armenians

Akram Aylisli's controversial novel 'Stone Dreams' received wide coverage in the February 2 Baku...

Azerbaijan
  • Jan 28, 2013
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Azerbaijani regime keeps lid on local dissatisfaction

An AFP correspondent on Saturday witnessed police beating up and arresting a small group calling...

Azerbaijan
  • Jan 24, 2013
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Azerbaijan protests focus on local elite

Disturbances in Ismayilli continued this morning, with the police using tear gas and rubber...

Azerbaijan
  • Jan 16, 2013
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Azerbaijan's foreign investment claim looks overblown

President Ilham Aliyev told the cabinet yesterday GDP had grown by 2.2% in 2012.

Azerbaijan
  • Jan 15, 2013
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Young Azerbaijanis protest against bullying in army

A Baku court yesterday fined 16 young people up to 600 manat (760 dollars) for participating in...

Azerbaijan
  • Jan 14, 2013
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Politics drives Azerbaijan's eviction of Russian radar

Despite official statements to the contrary in both Russia and Azerbaijan, last month's...

Azerbaijan
  • Dec 27, 2012
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Georgia's Ivanishvili climbs down on railway, gas

Ivanishvili told journalists in Baku yesterday after meeting Azerbaijan's president and prime...

Georgia