Vafa Nagi is running for a seat in parliament as an independent in Azerbaijan’s parliamentary elections Sept. 1. “I have no chance to win,” she told Radio Free Europe. Around the world, opposition candidates like Nagi, a former journalist, often boycott elections as a show of disapproval...
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President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan recently ordered a snap presidential vote. He was slated to run for reelection next year. Now, for a variety of reasons that highlight the tensions and risks in the former Soviet region in the Caucasus, voters will likely give him...
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Ethnic Armenian leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh agreed Thursday to end the territory’s self-governing status – a week after Azerbaijan took control of the region following decades of conflict, the Wall Street Journal reported. “The Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) ceases to exist,” according to a decree issued by...
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Another nightmare appears to be unfolding on the far edge of Europe. Thousands of ethnic Armenians over the past week have fled the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh after Azerbaijani forces seized the territory, seeking refuge in the nearby republic of Armenia. Armenian officials, meanwhile, say Azerbaijan is “ethnic...
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Azerbaijan and Armenian forces agreed to a ceasefire Wednesday following two days of fighting in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, an area that has been the source of long-standing conflict between the two nations, the Associated Press reported. The ceasefire came after the Azerbaijani government launched an...
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Humanitarian aid resumed in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh Monday, after Armenian-backed separatists reached an agreement with the Azerbaijani government following months of tensions and fears of renewed conflict, Radio Free Europe reported. Since last year, the Azerbaijani government has blocked the only road – known...
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Talks between Azerbaijani officials and the ethnic Armenian community in Nagorno-Karabakh, an enclave that Azerbaijan recently seized from Armenia in a brief war in 2020, are “encouraging news,” the European Union’s special representative for the South Caucasus told Radio Free Europe recently. Even so, five people...
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The United Nation’s top court ordered the Azerbaijani government this week to remove its roadblock from the only route linking Armenia and the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region in Azerbaijan that has raised tensions between the neighboring countries, Al Jazeera reported. The case relates to the Lachin Corridor,...
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Clashes erupted along the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan on Tuesday, raising fears that the latest outbreak of hostilities could ignite another war between the neighboring south Caucasus countries, Sky News reported. Armenian officials said at least 49 of its soldiers were killed during the skirmishes,...
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Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to set up a border commission this week, a move aimed at ending a decades-long dispute over the ethnic Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, Al Jazeera reported Tuesday. The move followed a meeting between Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham...
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Armenian authorities arrested dozens of protesters this week amid daily protests of thousands against a planned peace agreement with neighboring Azerbaijan over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, Radio Free Europe reported Thursday. Anti-government protests have been taking place since last month after Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian...
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