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.
A Baku court on August 23 sent Azerbaijani political analyst Bahruz Samadov to pretrial detention for at least four months on a high treason charge, which he rejects.
Azerbaijani political analyst Bahruz Samadov, who is known for his criticism of government authorities, was arrested in Baku on August 21.
Azerbaijan has officially applied to join the BRICS bloc of developing economies. Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesman Aykhan Hajizadeh announcement the move on August 20, a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the South Caucasus country.
ussian President Vladimir Putin said after talks with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Baku on August 19 that Moscow is ready to get involved in the process of signing a peace treaty between Azerbaijan and Armenia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in Azerbaijan for a two-day state visit, the Kremlin’s press service said on August 18.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is due to visit Azerbaijan on August 18 for talks with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on the strategic partnership between the two countries and other international and regional issues.
The chairman of the opposition Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (AXCP), Ali Karimli, said on August 9 that a criminal case had been filed against him on charges of slander and insult, which he called "a falsification" by the authorities.
The Nizami district Court in Baku on July 24 sent former Azerbaijani diplomat Emin Ibrahimov to pretrial detention for at least four months on a stabbing charge, which Ibrahimov rejects as totally fabricated.
Relatives and a lawyer of former Azerbaijani diplomat Emin Ibrahimov said on July 23 that police detained the government critic a day earlier for allegedly stabbing a person, a charge that Ibrahimov rejects as totally fabricated.
Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry said on July 15 that its ambassador and embassy staff have returned to Tehran, a year and a half after a deadly attack on its diplomatic facility there.
Azerbaijani tycoon Anar Mammadov earned a fortune linked to his father's political sway. RFE/RL reveals how he also used secretive offshore firms to invest millions into KFC restaurants and luxury properties in Britain.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have made more progress in ongoing negotiations on the delimitation of their border, the Armenian government said on July 1.
An RFE/RL Azerbaijani Service investigation finds a recent law to "legalize" a whole new category of luxury developments in the Caspian Sea is full of surprises that benefit Emin Agalarov, President Ilham Aliyev's former son-in-law and the scion of a Russian oligarch, and his megaproject.
Azerbaijani officials said on June 24 that five persons, including three police officers, were killed during an arrest of a person suspected of unspecified crimes.
The NIDA civic movement in Azerbaijan said one of its members, Nicat Amiraslanov, was released from custody on June 17 after spending two days in a police station in Baku on unspecified charges.
The Armenian military on June 14 denied Azerbaijan’s claim that Armenian forces had opened fire on Azerbaijani troops in Baku's Naxcivan exclave.
The social network X has suspended dozens of accounts, after France accused Baku of inciting unrest in its territory of New Caledonia. An RFE/RL investigation has found that the X accounts are linked to Azerbaijani officials and are part of a coordinated disinformation campaign.
Azerbaijani economist Farid Mehralizada has been arrested and charged with foreign currency smuggling in what appears to be part of a crackdown on dissent and free press.
Dissident Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad has told RFE/RL that she wants to see justice not just for herself, but for other exiled Iranians targeted by Tehran. Investigations are ongoing into a plot to assassinate Alinejad in New York in 2022.
Azerbaijan is promising new lecture halls, dormitories, and other state-of-the-art facilities at a soon-to-be opened university in Nagorno-Karabakh, whose ethnic Armenians fled after Baku reasserted control. To sweeten the deal, study will be free, but will students be convinced?
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