Azerbaijan

Azeri Papers 'Threatened' by Language Decree

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

29 Jun 01

Talk of oil riches comes at a good time for the beleaguered Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic

20 Jun 01

Was Vardan Oskanian's faux pas a slip of the tongue or a shrewd political calculation?

21 May 01

Observers believe that Heidar Aliev's government is preparing the country for bad news

14 May 01

In the three months since he was elected mayor of Baku, Gadjibala Abutalybov has shaken the capital to its foundations.

20 Apr 01

Dagestan's Supreme Court convicts two separate Wahhabi gangs of terrorist attacks

23 Mar 01

For the first time in post-Soviet Armenia, a convicted murderer faces the death penalty but campaigners claim the real killers are still at large

9 Feb 01

Why is the Council of Europe urging Azerbaijan's opposition parties to abandon their boycott of the newly elected parliament?

5 Jan 01

Azerbaijani opposition parties are refusing to recognise the nation's second democratically elected parliament

17 Nov 00

The trial of its national hero is convulsing the breakaway Armenian territory of Nagorny Karabakh

27 Oct 00

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