Idrak Abbasov

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A small group of Azerbaijani prisoners have taken college entrance exams, but will others follow their example?

3 Nov 06

What lies behind the health ministry’s move against private clinics?

25 Aug 06

Thousands of unregistered homes at risk as oil firm seeks to reclaim land.

20 Jul 06

Baku hunger strike ends after international mediation.

27 Jan 06

Illegal sand extraction on Azerbaijan’s Apsheron coast is a profitable business for boomtown Baku’s building industry.

1 Sep 05

Azerbaijan’s Constitutional Court intervenes in a row that led to a prison hunger strike.

10 Aug 05

Burning waste creates environmental hazard, as scavengers pick through the trash.

19 Aug 04

The most terrible episode of the Nagorny Karabakh war recalled, 10 years on.

21 Feb 04

High production costs force country's famous tea growers to switch to vegetable and rice cultivation.

19 Sep 03

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