Despite near-total government control over the media, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service has built a high-impact social-media presence in Azerbaijan and a reputation as a leading source of independent news.
Azerbaijanis cast their ballots in early parliamentary elections on February 9 -- and some apparently cast multiple ballots. Along with irregularities such as ballot-box stuffing and so-called carousel voting at multiple stations, there were also reports of independent observers being harassed or expelled.
An exit poll in Azerbaijan's February 9 parliamentary elections suggests President Ilham Aliyev's ruling New Azerbaijan Party (YAP) has increased its share by four seats in the single-chamber legislature and only one opposition candidate has won a seat.
Azerbaijanis go to the polls this weekend to choose members of their parliament. After decades of elections plagued by media manipulation and dirty tricks, opposition activists hold out little hope of challenging the dominance of President Ilham Aliyev's party in the vote on February 9.
Thousands of Azerbaijanis have descended on the capital, Baku, to mark the 30th anniversary of the Soviet crackdown in which dozens of people were killed.
A prominent anti-corruption blogger in Azerbaijan once jailed over his allegations of police abuse says he and five others were beaten by police without explanation in downtown Baku overnight on December 27-28.
Votes are being counted following the close of voting in Azerbaijan in municipal elections that are being boycotted by some of the oil- and gas-rich Caspian country's main opposition parties.
President Ilham Aliyev has signed an order setting parliamentary elections for February 9.
Azerbaijan's National Assembly, dominated by the ruling New Azerbaijan Party (YAP), has approved a proposal to dissolve parliament and ask President Ilham Aliyev, the leader of the party, to call snap general polls.
Azerbaijan's ruling New Azerbaijan Party (YAP) has decided to initiate the dissolution of parliament, saying that "the current composition of the legislature does not comply with policies pursued by" President Ilham Aliyev, the leader of the party.
A major landslide has destroyed a highway on the southern entrance to the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, following torrential rainfall. A stretch of road 100 meters long was damaged by the slide early morning on November 25, with one lane completely destroyed. The incident occurred just a short distance from the city's historic Bibi-Heybat mosque.
Germany has sent home dozens of Azerbaijani citizens amid reports about police raids across the country to locate possible illegal immigrants.
Council of Europe investigators say "torture and other forms of physical ill-treatment by the police and other law enforcement agencies" is "systemic and endemic" in Azerbaijan.
Prominent Azerbaijani rights activist Oqtay Gulaliyev is in a coma after being hit by a car in Baku, his wife says.
Police in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, have detained several protesters who had gathered for a second straight day of unauthorized demonstrations.
Police detained dozen of protesters in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, on October 19. The leader of Azerbaijan's opposition Popular Front Party, Ali Kerimli, was among those detained. Protesters were calling for the release of political prisoners and reductions in rates for natural gas and electricity. The latest crackdown comes after several people were detained at a protest on October 8 in Baku in support of the right to free assembly organized by the National Council of Democratic Forces, an umbrella group of Azerbaijani opposition forces.
Police have detained dozens of opposition activists before and during a protest in the Azerbaijani capital on October 19.
Authorities prevented protesters from gathering for an authorized rally in support of the right to freedom of assembly in the Azerbaijani capital on October 8. Police began detaining people an hour before the event's scheduled 3:00 p.m. start in downtown Baku.
Azerbaijan's parliament has approved former presidential aide Ali Asadov as the new prime minister just hours after Norvuz Mammadov tendered his resignation.
The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan have held talks on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.
An Azerbaijani journalist, who was released from prison after serving a five-year term for hooliganism, a charge he has rejected as politically motivated, says the incarceration did not make him change his views.
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