A second war is looming on the European periphery as long-running tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan have escalated sharply over the past week, with Azerbaijan's military even warning that it ...

(New York) – The Azerbaijan government’s offensive against human rights defenders and nongovernmental organizations should lead to its suspension from an international transparency initiative, Human ...

(Berlin) – Azerbaijan falls far short of Council of Europe membership commitments, even as it assumes chairmanship of the organization. Azerbaijan will assume the rotating chairmanship of the Council ...

I arrive in Azerbaijan as the country celebrates Victory Day, the day successor states of the former Soviet Union celebrate the defeat of Germany in World War II. No one knows how many Soviet citizens ...

An interview with Laura Tuck, World Bank Vice President for Europe and Central Asia, by Nurlana Quliyeva, Region plus, Baku. Azerbaijan's cooperation with the World Bank began almost immediately after ...

The Ukraine crisis has presented other post-Soviet countries with stark foreign policy choices. In a recent article in Foreign Affairs, University College of London’s James Yan makes a provocative ...

Azerbaijan's economic and political systems have been destined to collapse for quite some time. The recent drop in oil prices has merely accelerated the process and made it seem even more obvious. The ...

The Baku - New York direct flight was initiated for the first time in 2014. This is the first direct flight from the South Caucasus region to North America. This confirms the status of "Azerbaijan ...

Representatives from Azerbaijan on Wednesday denied reports it could step in to replace this year’s endangered Russian Grand Prix. Earlier, Germany’s Welt newspaper said the oil-rich former Soviet ...

Portugal will travel to Azerbaijan this week for what is shaping up to be a very important 2014 World Cup qualifier—especially after all that's transpired so far in the competition for the European ...