The Council of Europe will set up an anti-corruption investigation amid fresh allegations that its members have been offered bribes for votes by Azerbaijan.
The 324-member body is mad…
President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Pedro Agramunt which has already gained notorious fame in Ukraine, gradually receives the image of “negative hero” also at the heart of Europe. In…
Azerbaijan is a nation built on the riches of its Caspian Sea resources, and gas and oil are a mainstay of an economy that is over-dependent on fossil fuels and not diversified enough to foster a competitive environmen…
Guardian hears claims that oil-rich country tried to bribe members of human rights body to secure votes against reports criticising its president.One of Europe’s oldest human rights bodies is being urged to set up a fa…
A money-laundering trial set to begin in mid-April in Italy has shed light on a hidden offshore operation that may have contributed to a major human rights crackdown in Azerbaijan in 2013.The Azerbaijani investigative …
The journalist of the Italian TV channel “Rai 3” Paolo Mondani prepared a TV program dedicated to the so-called “Caviar Diplomacy” of Azerbaijan.
The journalist met with Armenian MP…
The money, intended for the families of the deceased at the frontline Azerbaijani soldiers, is spent on bribes for Europeans. Jamil Hasanli, chairman of the National Council of the Democratic Forces of Azerbaijan (NEDC…
On Thursday the PACE Committee on Institutional Affairs adopted a declaration condemning corruption among deputies and expressed a firm intention to investigate all the facts and to evaluate them. “Allegations of corru…
The Armenian Assembly of America (Assembly) has called on the Senate Judiciary Committee to obtain the Attorney General nominee Senator Jeff Sessions’ (R-AL) commitment to enforce the letter and spirit of laws already …
In 2013, Dr Liam Fox – he insists on the “Doctor” – published a book on the challenges of globalisation, which read as if he had dictated into his phone between meetings. Rising Tides was a meandering work. It took a l…