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How Azerbaijan Manipulates Public Opinion in the US
To see how foreign interests distort reality to steer political debate and influence American foreign policy, look no further than a Dec. 5, 2012, meeting in the US Congress chaired by then-Rep. Dan Burton, R-Indiana.<...
How Azerbaijan and Its Lobbyists Spin Congress
The Aliyev regime is selling itself in Washington as friendly and progressive. Is your Congressman buying it?
“However life turns out — the hardest part is I can’t see you. And this i…
Azerbaijani First Family Big on Banking
From a distance, Azerbaijan may look like any other oil-rich country.
Its capital Baku shines at night, thanks to the multicolored lights from newly-constructed futuristic buildings t…
To Baku and Back With Freebies
When does a congressional fact-finding trip become an embarrassing junket? Ten House members and 32 of their staff members should be pondering that question now that their all-expenses-paid trip to Baku two years ago h…
10 members of Congress took trip secretly funded by foreign government
The state-owned oil company of Azerbaijan secretly funded an all-expenses-paid trip to a conference in Baku, on the Caspian Sea, in 2013 for 10 members of Congress and 32 staff members, according to a confidential ethi…
PACE co-rapporteur on Azerbaijan avoids visit to Baku because of country authorities’ pressure
The visit to Azerbaijan by PACE (the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe) co-rapporteur, Spanish MP Pedro Agramunt, planned for 8-9 April has been postponed due to unforeseen circumstances, PACE official pa…
The representative of the Staff of the President of Mexico talks about why caviar should not help the Azerbaijani propaganda.
In July of 2011 the local authorities and the governments of Azerbaijan signed an agreement on the construction of the Azeri-Mexico Friendship park, which was to include a monument to Heydar Aliyev and Khojaly events, …
Miriam Lanskoy: If the United States has not given a serious answer to this issue till now, Baku should not think that it will always be so
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American wind in power corridors - heavy punishment
For years Azerbaijani authorities spend millions on normalizing relations with Washington; yet they don’t get any positive statement from the “cradle of democracy” in response, t