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 co-chair of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's (OSCE) Minsk Group trying to mediate a peace in the dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh region has said he sees progress in negotiations.
Azerbaijani parliament speaker Oqtay Asadov has called on religious clerics in the country to perform their prayers in Azeri, not in Arabic.
Another act of self-immolation in Azerbaijan -- the fourth in a month -- has left a 21-year-old woman in grave condition.
A veteran of the 1990s Karabakh war in Azerbaijan has reportedly set himself alight in protest, following the death weeks ago of another veteran fighting perceived injustice.
A young opposition activist and blogger in Azerbaijan has been given three-months' pretrial detention on drugs charges.
An Azeri LGBT activist has apparently committed suicide.
A political activist and political adviser to Azerbaijan's opposition Musavat party has been sentenced to six years in prison for "hooliganism."
Author Rafiq Tagi, who also worked as a freelance reporter for RFE/RL, was stabbed by an unknown assailant in November 2011, but his condition had improved before his sudden death in his hospital bed.
Azerbaijan's oldest existing political party, Musavat (Equality), has decided to withdraw from the National Council of Democratic Forces, the country's major opposition alliance.
A 42-year-old Azerbaijani man who lit himself on fire in front of a government building in Baku to protest perceived injustice at the hands of a senior pro-government official has died in a case that is said to have "disturbed" President Ilham Aliyev.
The head of an election watchdog in Azerbaijan, Anar Mammadli, has officially been charged with tax evasion, illegal entrepreneurship, and using his office to falsify election results.
The Azerbaijani parliament has obliged foreign nongovernmental organizations to appoint Azerbaijani citizens as deputy chiefs, including in branch offices.
The consortium developing Azerbaijan's Shah Deniz-2 natural-gas project has signed a final investment agreement, paving the way for the first deliveries to Europe.
The United States says it is "deeply troubled" by the arrest of the head of an election watchdog in Azerbaijan.
Hundreds of Baku residents have staged a protest rally over the rising costs of fuel and food products.
Two men have been sentenced in Azerbaijan's northern city of Saki in a high-profile mass disorder case.
The Azerbaijani government has announced a sharp increase in prices for gasoline and natural gas.
An Azerbaijani border officer was killed during a shootout along the Azerbaijani-Iranian frontier.
Azerbaijan's opposition "Yeni Musavat" (New Equality) newspaper has started a campaign to sustain its operations amid pressure from authorities.
U.S. President Barack Obama has welcomed the decision by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and his Armenian counterpart, Serzh Sarkisian, to meet later this month to renew discussions related to a resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
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