Campaign Against “Enemy Press” in Azerbaijan
By AFGAN MUKHTARLI* Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) Focus on “hostile” Armenian reports and “biased” Western media. In its ongoing campaign against freedom [more >>>]
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Nagorno-Karabakh, a self-proclaimed republic
By MARY BOLAND The Irish Times Landlocked enclave was the subject of a war between 1991 and 1994 that cost 30,000 lives STEPANAKERT – The [more >>>]
Thawing the Frozen Conflict? The European Court’s Nagorno-Karabakh Judgments
By PHILIP LEACH* Blog of the European Journal of International Law Last September, Erik Fribergh, the Registrar of the European Court of Human Rights, [more >>>]
Unwelcome to Azerbaijan
By NURGUL NOVRUZ* Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) Hosting image-boosting European Games while shutting down human rights criticism hasn’t worked, if the aim [more >>>]
Silence Of the Lambs, Azerbaijani Style
By ARZU GEYBULLAYEVA Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso The European Games in Baku are only a month away, while the list of the country’s political prisoners [more >>>]
Azerbaijan Photoshops Armenia Out Of Victory Day
By JOSHUA KUCERA eurasianet.org Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Defense published a photo of its soldiers in Moscow’s May 9 Victory Day parade in which an Armenian [more >>>]
Clearing mines in Nagorno-Karabakh conflict region
BBC For more than two decades Armenia and Azerbaijan have been locked in conflict over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, which lies in Azerbaijan but has [more >>>]
Nagorno-Karabakh: Armenia and Azerbaijan’s ‘frozen’ conflict (video)
By RAYHAN DEMYTRIE BBC As the ceasefire in eastern Ukraine stumbles on there are fears it could become a “frozen” conflict where the dispute is [more >>>]
What Does ‘Strategic Patience’ Mean in Current Context
civil.ge In 2009 then U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on Georgia to pursue policy of “strategic patience” in respect of its breakaway regions [more >>>]
“Very difficult” Geneva discussions make little progress
Commonspace.eu The thirty-first round of the Geneva International Discussions, a mechanism involving Georgia, Russia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, facilitated by the international community led by [more >>>]