While official Baku and its friendly media sharply criticized the elections and Armenia’s new leadership, some in the country expressed optimism that the door to a peace deal may have opened, if only a crack.
The activists were conducting a march to celebrate a national holiday, but the authorities accused them of doing it for unsanctioned “political purposes.”
Some have expressed concern that the UK's first use of the “unexplained wealth order” targeted someone already out of favor with the Azerbaijani government.
The MMA battle was seen by Armenians as a measure of vengeance for one of the conflict's most notorious episodes. But it appears they got the wrong woman.
Despite repressive government policies toward the LGBT community in conservative Azerbaijan, some parents are bucking social rules and advocating for their LGBT children.
