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Foreign Ministry: So-called Karabakh elections illegal

According to the reports circulated by the mass media outlets of the Republic of Armenia, the so-called “elections” to the “parliament” of the puppet separatist regime are planned to be held in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of the Republic of Azerbaijan…

Khojaly genocide becomes top trend on Twitter

Discussions on numerous events held in the framework of the campaign “Justice for Khojaly!” significantly influenced the subjects on Twitter both in Azerbaijan and around the world. The study revealed that at 15.00-18.00 on February 26, the topic of the…

Azerbaijan parliament hosts hearing on U.S. ties

The Committee for International and Interparliamentary Relations of the Milli Majlis, Azerbaijan`s parliament, has hosted “Azerbaijani-U.S. relations in the context of human rights, energy and security issues” hearing. Participants in the hearing included MPs, heads of political parties and NGOs,…

How Azerbaijan had satire years before Charlie Hebdo

By Konul Khalilova Editor, BBC Azeri service In this cartoon, the magazine depicts a prison with windows and a house of Muslim women with none More than 100 years before militant Islamist gunmen murdered journalists at France’s satirical magazine Charlie…

How Azerbaijan matters to the United States

By Rep. Randy Weber – – Wednesday, January 28, 2015 Why would a relatively stable country at the intersection of the Middle East, Europe and Asia, with a strong economy and burgeoning energy supply, matter to the United States? It’s…