List of Azerbaijan articles
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After hosting the Eurovision in 2012 and the European Games in 2015 Baku acts as a picture postcard of the country's newfound prosperity, but also of its contrasts. The country is home to known energy reserves of around a billion barrels of oil and 1.3 trillion cubic meters of natural gas. But if until now Azerbaijan did not have to worry much about paying the bills ? they do now. The slump in global oil prices has put a crimp in the country?s budget. A patient feet in a crude oil bath treatment. Patients comes here to receive crude oil treatment here among other medical treatment. Naftalan, Azerbaijan Aperture: Exit the King
Oil has been a boon in Azerbaijan’s economic growth. But will black gold also cause the country's demise?
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azerkardash Azerbaijan Blasts Kim Kardashian
Kim Kardashian may have 66 million followers on Instagram, but that doesn’t make her an expert on the frozen conflict in the mountainous Caucasus enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.
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Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan, arrives for a working dinner at the White House March 31, 2016 in Washington, DC. World leaders are gathering for a two-day conference that will address a range of issues including ongoing efforts to prevent terrorist groups from accessing nuclear material. / AFP / Olivier Douliery (Photo credit should read OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP/Getty Images) How I Accidentally Became a Lobbyist for Azerbaijan
The small oil-rich country spends millions sweet-talking Congress. Here’s how I got fooled into helping.
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GettyImages-478872610 crop Freeze the Dictator Out
Azerbaijan’s authoritarian president is in Washington this week, plainly hoping for some love — or at least attention — from President Obama. He must not get it.
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GettyImages-92552063 Public Advocates Accuse House Ethics Committee of Undermining House Ethics
Public Citizen wants the House Ethics Committee to release an independent report a trip by U.S. lawmakers to Azerbaijan.
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TO GO WITH AFP STORY People attend a mass of the Assembly of God church, in Goiania, Goias State, Brazil, on May 19, 2013. The election of evangelical minister Marco Feliciano as president of the House of Deputies' commission of human rights and minorities, is seen as a sign of the growing influence of evangelicals in Congress, where they have 67 deputies ot of a total 513, and in Brazilian politics in general. Evangelicals count 565 million adherents and represent more than one-fourth of the world's Christians, according to French researcher Sebastien Fath. AFP PHOTO / Evaristo SA (Photo credit should read EVARISTO SA/AFP/Getty Images) Longform’s Picks of the Week
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GettyImages-476846914crop In Post-Soviet Azerbaijan, PR Does You
The European Games open today in Azerbaijan, whose authoritarian leader has conceived of the event to boost the country's international profile.
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GettyImages-461879612 cropped How Azerbaijan and Its Lobbyists Spin Congress
The Aliyev regime is selling itself in Washington as friendly and progressive. Is your Congressman buying it?
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Baku City Features Trapped in Baku
A press freedom advocate -- and husband of an American servicewoman -- went to the U.S. embassy in Azerbaijan, fearing for his life. But he was turned away.
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175637075 cropped The Two Faces of Azerbaijan’s Government
Azerbaijan's leaders like to pretend that they’re friends of the West. Time for a reality check.
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