Baku is due to host at least another three Grand Prix, but locals continue to wonder what the races bring to the country apart from disrupting movement in the capital.
Local rights activists say hundreds of religious Shias have been arrested in recent weeks as pro-government media report on the arrests of "spies" and "traitors" working for neighboring Iran.
Ever since the start to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, anything with the slightest whiff of separatism in Kazakhstan has elicited a harsh crackdown. Except this time.
A social media post by the customs body on the confiscation of a traveler's clothes and accessories has reminded Azerbaijanis of how restrictive their country's regulations are.