(Berlin) – Azerbaijan falls far short of Council of Europe membership commitments, even as it assumes chairmanship of the organization. Azerbaijan will assume the rotating chairmanship of the Council ...

I arrive in Azerbaijan as the country celebrates Victory Day, the day successor states of the former Soviet Union celebrate the defeat of Germany in World War II. No one knows how many Soviet citizens ...

(New York) – The Azerbaijan government’s offensive against human rights defenders and nongovernmental organizations should lead to its suspension from an international transparency initiative, Human ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. A second war is looming on the European periphery as long-running tensions between Armenia and ...

An interview with Laura Tuck, World Bank Vice President for Europe and Central Asia, by Nurlana Quliyeva, Region plus, Baku. Azerbaijan's cooperation with the World Bank began almost immediately after ...

The Ukraine crisis has presented other post-Soviet countries with stark foreign policy choices. In a recent article in Foreign Affairs, University College of London’s James Yan makes a provocative ...

There is money in Azerbaijan and plenty of it. Petroleum wealth mostly. Two-thirds of the country is rich in oil and natural gas, and Western companies are tapping oil fields in the Caspian Sea that ...

The Baku - New York direct flight was initiated for the first time in 2014. This is the first direct flight from the South Caucasus region to North America. This confirms the status of "Azerbaijan ...

DUBAI, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Azerbaijan's largest lender, International Bank of Azerbaijan (IBA), is working with national authorities on a draft Islamic banking law and a final version could be ...

Representatives from Azerbaijan on Wednesday denied reports it could step in to replace this year’s endangered Russian Grand Prix. Earlier, Germany’s Welt newspaper said the oil-rich former Soviet ...