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.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has arrived in the Armenian capital of Yerevan as part of a regional tour that included talks in neighboring Azerbaijan.
A French court has rejected a lawsuit by Azerbaijan’s government against two French journalists it accuses of defamation in a case described by the defendants and media freedom activists as an attempt by the Caucasus nation's authorities to export censorship beyond the country's borders.
Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey have launched a rail link connecting the three countries, establishing a freight and passenger link between Europe and China that bypasses Russia and Armenia.
Hundreds of people have attended an opposition-organized anticorruption rally in Azerbaijan's capital, Baku.
The wife of an Azerbaijani journalist who had sought refuge in Georgia has left Tbilisi for Germany.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has expressed concerns over Azerbaijan’s “unprecedented crackdown on human rights” and urged reforms to ensure the independence of the judiciary.
Hundreds of opposition activists attended an anticorruption protest in Azerbaijan's capital, Baku.
Azerbaijani authorities say they arrested more than 80 people last month who offered "sexual services," following reports by international rights groups that the government had rounded up dozens of members of the country's gay community.
Aziz Orucov, the Baku manager of Internet television station Channel 13, has gone on trial on charges supporters contend are politically motivated.
Baku's city police say they have warned opposition activists who plan to protest in the Azerbaijani capital that authorities will crack down on anyone breaking the agreed terms of the rally.
Officials from Azerbaijan and the European Union will discuss a draft of the new Baku-EU partnership agreement on September 29, Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Mahmud Mammadquliyev has told reporters in Baku.
Azerbaijan's embattled Turan news agency says the authorities have reinstated a tax claim against the independent news outlet.
The wife of an Azerbaijani journalist who had sought refuge in Georgia but disappeared and reappeared in custody in Baku has urged Georgian authorities to do more to investigate his plight.
The air forces of Azerbaijan and Turkey have begun a two-week military exercise in Azerbaijan.
A court in Azerbaijan has sentenced a journalist known for criticizing the government to nine years in prison after a trial his lawyer contends was politically motivated.
Faiq Amirli, the financial director of the Azerbaijani opposition daily Azadliq (Liberty), has walked free after an appeals court replaced his prison term with a suspended sentence.
British oil giant BP and Azerbaijan's state oil company SOCAR have signed a contract that prolongs their 1994 sharing agreement for Azerbaijan's largest oil fields until 2050.
The director of Azerbaijan's independent Turan news agency has been released from pretrial detention on condition that he remain under house arrest until his trial, which has not yet been scheduled.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has pardoned a Russian-Israeli blogger who was jailed after traveling to the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
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