The Azerbaijani authorities are using international criminal warrants to pursue their critics abroad. It looks like they’re getting away with it.
We all know about Baku’s international efforts to whitewash criticism of human rights abuses. What makes these latest revelations so different?
Sound principles for conflict resolution over Nagorno-Karabakh exist. But mistrust, a gulf between mediators and the parties involved, as well as Baku and Yerevan's appetite for military gains render the current formula impossible.
The Turkish authorities’ fight against real and imagined enemies in the Gülen movement has now reached Azerbaijan and Georgia.
It’s easy to celebrate when Azerbaijan’s political prisoners are released. But ensnared by public stigma and personal trauma, what are the chances that they ever find a place for themselves in society?
How national cuisines became yet another battlefield in the enmity between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Русский
The kidnapping of an Azerbaijani investigative journalist in broad daylight in Tbilisi raises questions about how far the west is willing to tolerate Azerbaijan's authoritarian slide.
Georgia has long been an oasis for dissidents from neighbouring Azerbaijan. But with Baku investing in its western neighbour at record levels, are they still safe?
Educated young people in Azerbaijan see few prospects for work at home – and even fewer if they’re critically-minded. Русский
Baku is going to great lengths to mobilise, or even create, an international Azerbaijani diaspora. To what end? Русский
In Azerbaijan, power is strictly a family business. RU
International investment in fossil fuel extraction is making me and other Azerbaijani political prisoners hostages to the Aliyev regime.
