Azerbaijan

Azeri Street Kids Beg for Change

The number of kids begging on the streets of Baku is expected to rise dramatically when new social spending cuts are introduced.

30 Oct 01

Government social security cutbacks will cause impoverished Azeris yet more hardship.

22 Oct 01

International community cuts back on aid for Azeris displaced by fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh.

12 Oct 01

Opposition parties accuse Robert Kocharian of untold number of wrongdoings - to no avail.

5 Oct 01

Osama bin Laden's links with Azerbaijan stretch back to the mid-nineties

5 Oct 01

No-one in Azerbaijan is prepared to take responsibility for the increasingly parlous state of the armed forces

25 Sep 01

Can the prime minister take the bribery out of bureaucracy, where his predecessors have failed?

17 Aug 01

A body has been set up to try to bridge the long-standing rift between Armenia and Turkey.

31 Jul 01

Azerbaijan president Heidar Aliev is facing stiff opposition from loyalists over plans to name his son, Ilham, as his successor.

31 Jul 01

The Azeri media fear the compulsory transition from Cyrillic to Latin letters will cost them readers

29 Jun 01

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