Mehman Huseynov, an Azeri blogger, is facing new fabricated charges in prison. But people inside and outside the...

This fearless journalist was abducted from the streets of Tbilisi and wound up in an Azerbaijani jail cell. We need...

My husband was kidnapped on the streets of Tbilisi and ended up in an Azerbaijani jail cell. Four months on, I’ve...

Talk in Brussels among non-governmental organisations and parliamentarians is that the EU lacks a strategy to...

This year marks the 25th anniversary of a devastating, yet little-known war at the gates of Europe which to this day...

Conspiracies keep the people pliant and rulers fearless. In Azerbaijan, all dissidents are considered to be agents...

The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic has managed to pursue a dynamic European and global foreign policy. Not bad for a...

Azerbaijan’s strategy over the disputed, Armenian-held territory of Karabakh is also aimed at eliminating domestic...

As Azerbaijan takes up the six-month chair of the Council of Europe, the deteriorating human-rights situation in the...

Many civilians were killed in the war between the newly independent states of Armenia and Azerbaijan in the early...

In 2009 six post-Soviet nations signed up to the EU Eastern Partnership, aimed at deepening political cooperation...

Since Azerbaijan joined the Council of Europe in 2001, the country's grim human rights record has only become worse....

If the primary concern is to establish peace in the region, then the central question is the social status of the...

Talking with an opposition educator about the Enlightenment, resistance and populism in Baku.

Ahead of a presidential election scheduled in October, a profile of Azerbaijan; its political and economic...

Work must be done to overcome divides even many decades after official agreements to end violence have been signed....

For close on a millennium Azeris and Armenians co-existed reasonably peaceably. At the end of the Soviet period...

Azerbaijan has hydrocarbon riches and a strategic position, which means that all the great powers have an interest...

Instigating dialogue across entrenched conflict built on ethnic stereotypes is long and precarious. The pardon given...

The recent Eurovision song contest catapulted Azerbaijan into world news and focused attention on its internal...