Multimedia: Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan: Streetwise Musical Style Moving into Mainstream

May 24, 2011 - 12:04pm

Azerbaijan

Like any kind of improvisation, meykhana, a musical style akin to rap, has its detractors and its devotees in Azerbaijan. Literally translated as “the place of wine,” meykhana is the poetry of the...
Interview 180: The Future of Natural Gas Supply to Europe

May 13, 2011 - 12:00pm

by: Dean C.K. Cox

Azerbaijan
Kazakhstan
Turkey
Turkmenistan

Michael Emerson is a Senior Research Fellow at the Brussels-based Centre for European Policy Studies, which is an independent think-tank focused on probing European Union issues through research,...
Azerbaijan: Teaching the ABCs of How to Be a Sniper

May 11, 2011 - 11:26am

by: Shahin Abbasov, Sitara Ibrahimova

Azerbaijan

It’s a bright spring morning in Baku, and, at Azerbaijan’s only non-profit school for snipers, 10 students are diligently taking notes about the “peculiarities” of a Russian-made, semi-automatic...
Interview 180: Comparing Oil Strategies in Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan

November 29, 2010 - 12:47pm

by: Dean C.K. Cox

Azerbaijan
Kazakhstan

As an economist studying the relationship between oil companies and governments in former Soviet countries, Heidi Kjaernet noticed an incongruity. The general theory, Kjaernet says, states that...
Interview 180: Examining the Oil Boom in Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan

October 28, 2010 - 11:00am

by: Justin Burke

Azerbaijan
Kazakhstan

In 1993, Chevron Corporation established a joint venture with the Kazakh government, signing on to a $40 billion commitment over the next 40 years to develop oil extraction in Kazakhstan.
Interview 180: Azerbaijan Eager to Maintain Balanced Foreign Policy

October 1, 2010 - 5:18pm

by: Justin Burke

Azerbaijan

Samuel Lussac is a PhD candidate in political science at the Institute of Political Science (Sciences-Po) in Bordeaux, France. He has published numerous papers on the political economy of...
Refugees, Rural Migrants Struggle in Baku's Suburbs

September 24, 2010 - 9:48am

by: Rena Effendi

Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan's financial boom from oil and natural gas exploration has transformed most of Baku into a modern metropolis. While the capital center has redefined itself with modern architecture and...
A World Apart: Azerbaijan's Highest Settlement

May 27, 2010 - 12:10pm

by: Jonathan Makiri

Azerbaijan

Xinaliq, a high-mountain village in Azerbaijan's portion of the Caucasus mountain range, is its own little world. Not much is known about the origins of the settlement, but its roughly 800 present...
Flooding Creates Temporary IDP Camps

May 25, 2010 - 11:57am

by: Rena Effendi

Azerbaijan

Heavy rains this month caused flooding in 20 villages surrounding the Kura River, Azerbaijan's main water artery, which enters the country from Georgia, where it is called the Mtkvari. The river...
Baku Mosque Closures Inconvenience Believers

March 18, 2010 - 8:00pm

by: Jonathan Makiri

Azerbaijan

Among the many construction projects that now seem to define downtown Baku, Azerbaijan’s capital city, it’s notable that one type of building, the mosque, isn’t faring so well. This EurasiaNet...

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