Baku

YEREVAN (Armenpress) — Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Armenian Parliament Armen Ashotyan, who also serves as the leader of the country’s delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly, delivered a speech[...]

HAIFA, Israel (Eurasianet.org) – If Azerbaijan expected gratitude for releasing a blogger from prison early, it has miscalculated. When Russian-Israeli travel blogger Alexander Lapshin was released after seven months in[...]

BAKU (RFE/RL and AP) — Russian-Israeli travel blogger Alexander Lapshin, who was sentenced to three years behind bars in Azerbaijan, was released on Tuesday, September 12, Lapshin’s lawyer, Eduard Chernin[...]

By Mike Runey BAKU (Eurasianet.org) — Azerbaijan rattled international investors this month when the country’s biggest lender, International Bank of Azerbaijan, announced it lacked the funds to pay bondholders and filed for[...]

BAKU (Armenpress) — Blogger Alexander Lapshin has appealed the decision of Baku Nasimi District Court on prolonging his incarceration for another three months, Lapshin’s lawyer told the Azerbaijani Trend agency.[...]