Those on trial include the organisation's editor-in-chief Sevinj Vagifgizi, director Ulvi Hasanli, translator Mahammad Kekalov, staff journalists Nargiz Absalamova and Elnara Gasimova, and freelance journalist Hafiz Babali. They all deny the smuggling charges.

Tehran wants better rail and road links, which dovetails with Pezeshkian’s drive to improve the energy and transportation links between the states.

At a meeting with his Armenian counterpart in Moscow, Lavrov said the Kremlin was ready to assist in the normalisation of Armenia-Azerbaijan relations.View on euronews

Accusations include physical abuse, including beating, an attempt to strangle one athlete, weight-shaming, verbal abuse, depriving athletes of speaking with their families, and withholding financial awards from athletes.

Russia’s president is said to have blamed birds or a Ukrainian drone for a Dec. 25 crash of an Azerbaijani plane. Azerbaijan says Russian air defenses were at fault.

A billionaire former banker and 15 other ex-officials in the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region which Azerbaijan retook in 2023 went on trial on Friday in Baku in closed-door proceedings. The most prominent of the defendants,

Ex-Moscow investment banker Ruben Vardanyan and 15 other Armenian leaders of the formerly contested Nagorno-Karabakh region went on trial in Azerbaijan on Friday.

Azerbaijan intensifies its crackdown on independent media, targeting journalists and activists under contentious charges.

Azerbaijan has refused to renew its cooperation agreement with The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov said on Thursday, accusing Washington of using USAID to pursue its political agenda.

The Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Ali Akbar Ahmadian, held discussions with Azerbaijan's Deputy Prime Minister, Shahin Mustafayev, on enhancing bilateral relations and addressing developments in the South Caucasus,

In addition to the loan agreement, Ekaterina Miroshnik, the EBRD Head of Infrastructure Eurasia (Sustainable Infrastructure Group) and Zaur Mikayilov, the Chairman of Azerbaijan State Water Resources Agency, signed a project agreement paving the way to the project implementation.

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