Azerbaijan’s feminist movement is small, but it has received an outsized public backlash for a campaign calling attention to the state’s responsibility to prevent domestic violence.
Politicians in Moscow claim to be concerned that Russian-speaking citizens may be facing intimidation and aggression in Kyrgyzstan – a fact that officials in Bishkek deny.
For decades Azerbaijan denounced Armenian irredentism. Now it is advancing expansionary territorial claims of its own as it seeks to impose peace on its terms.
In Armenia’s southern Syunik region, Azerbaijanis have quickly staked their claim on the territory they retook in last year’s war. Now Armenians wonder what will be next.
Azerbaijanis, the largest ethnic minority in Georgia, say that Tbilisi neglects their culture while Baku tries to co-opt it. Now they are claiming it for themselves.