Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan court rejects ‘donkey video’ bloggers’ appeal
(AFP) - An Azerbaijani court on Wednesday rejected an appeal by two bloggers jailed after satirizing the government with an Internet video that showed a donkey giving a press conference, their lawyer said.
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Azerbaijan sees risk of ‘great war’ with Armenia
(AFP) - Azerbaijan warned on Thursday that the threat of conflict with Armenia is rising fast and that a “great war” is inevitable if Armenian forces fail to pull out of disputed Nagorny Karabakh.
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Tengizchevroil halts exports via BTC pipeline - energy minister
(SRI) - Tengizchevroil, the Chevron-led joint venture developing the giant Tengiz oil field, has stopped pumping oil through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline, Kazakhstan’s Energy Minister Sauat Mynbayev said on Wednesday.
Six dead in shooting at Azeri military base
(Reuters) - Two soldiers in Azerbaijan shot dead four fellow servicemen and then killed themselves at a military base near the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, the defense ministry said on Friday.
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Azerbaijan’s traditional music thrives again
(AFP) - Lifting his daf, a traditional Azerbaijani tambourine, to his ear, Mutalim Damirov begins to sing.
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Azerbaijan threatens force over Nagorno-Karabakh
(AP) - President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan said Saturday his nation may resort to military force if talks with Armenia on resolving a long-standing territorial dispute produce no result.
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U.S. businessman sentenced in Azerbaijan oil case
(Reuters) - American businessman and co-founder of upscale handbag maker Dooney & Bourke was sentenced on Tuesday to just over a year in prison for conspiring to defraud the United States in an Azerbaijan oil venture bribery case.
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Azerbaijan opposition bloggers sentenced to jail
(AP) - A court in Azerbaijan sentenced two bloggers to prison Wednesday for a fight in a restaurant, but the defendants say the charges were a pretext to punish them for political dissent.
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Azerbaijan Airlines orders four Boeing jets
(AFP) - Ex-Soviet Azerbaijan’s flagship carrier AZAL said Wednesday it had ordered four new Boeing airplanes for its growing fleet, including two of the US company’s 787 Dreamliner long-haul jets.
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Azerbaijan puts opposition bloggers on trial
(AFP) - Two bloggers arrested after posting a satirical Internet video of a donkey giving a press conference went on trial in Azerbaijan Friday, in what rights group say is an attempt to silence new media.
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