Azerbaijan

Parviz Amiraliyev and Firdovsi Gasimov are working together to rebuild their homes. (Photo: Seymur Kazimov)
5 Apr 12
Government wants people to go back to villages, and helps them raise old homes from ruins.
Renovated airport in Stepanakert. (Photo: Marut Vanyan)
30 Mar 12
Azerbaijani officials insist Armenian-held entity must not reopen airport, and suggest passenger planes flying on “illegal” route might be shot down.
Khadija Ismailova. (Photo: Shahla Sultanova)
16 Mar 12
Secret filming and open threats, coinciding with unsubstantiated claims in pro-government papers? The target, Khadija Ismayilova, thinks the trail is pretty clear.
9 Mar 12
Homeowners say they were summarily evicted and offered poor compensation in land clearance for song contest venue.
Standard history textbooks used in Azerbaijani schools. (Photo: Shahla Sultanova)
Special Report
27 Feb 12
In each country, school textbooks teach one version of history that sustains animosity towards the other.
Azerbaijani writer Rafiq Tagi, who died on November 23 four days after a brutal knife attack, (Photo: APA news agency)
25 Nov 11
Rafiq Tagi was an unrelenting critic of Iranian theocracy and political Islam in Azerbaijan.
Protesters clash with police in Baku. (Photo: Idrak Abbasov) Isa Gambar has offered to step down as leader of Azerbaijan’s Musavat party to let a merger with the Popular Front go through. (Photo: www.isagambar.az) Renovated airport in Stepanakert. (Photo: Marut Vanyan)
Turkish defence minister Vecdi Gonul pays his respect at Baku's Avenue of Martyrs. (Photo: Jasur Sumerinli) An Azerbaijani woman prays at a mosque in Baku. (Photo: Samira Ahmedbeyli)
Kamal Qahramanov, who was deported in 1944 along with the entire Meskhetian community and is hoping to return to Georgia at last. (Photo: Kenan Guluzade)
Azerbaijani NGO leaders attend a news conference. The speaker is Razi Nurullayev, spokesman for the coalition of unregistered NGOs. Oqtay Gulaliyev is fourth from the left. (Photo: Idrak Abbasov) Sabir Rustamkhanli (centre), head of the World Congress of Azerbaijanis, during the protests outside the Iranian embassy. (Photo: Sabuhi Mammadli)
Ehtiram Pashayev, deputy director of the Public Organisation Against AIDS. (Photo: Vafa Zeynalova) 
Participants meeting refugees. (Photo: IWPR) Yvonne (Joanna) Botteau Jacques at her home in Murguzalli. (Photo: Sabuhi Mammadli) Azerbaijan’s grain harvest this year was far lower than expected, partly due to bad weather but also because of chronic underpending. (Photo: Sabuhi Mammadli)