Azerbaijan spends millions of dollars to improve its image abroad.
In recent years, the regime of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has spent millions …
Poisoning by "caviar diplomacy"
Category: Analytics
PACE Deputy Igor Ivanovsky – another client of Azerbaijan's Caviar Diplomacy?
We present you the expert Edgar Khachatryan’s commentaries to the ”question” of the representative of Macedonia, a member of the PACE Socialist Group Igor Ivanovsky to the Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, voiced on…
Azerbaijan and the Council of Europe
AZERBAIJAN is not really a democracy according to Freedom House, a watchdog. Since the early 1990s, it says, elections have been deeply flawed. Parliament is rubber-stamping the government’s decisions. Corruption is wi…
Behind the Tradition of Caviar Diplomacy
Could it be that the there are some “forces” (as our beloved government officials would say) in the European Parliament and PACE who are keen supporters of the Aliyev regime? It seems so. And here is why.
Transparency International, non-governmental international organization fighting corruption, summed up the results of the past year in recently compiled and published ”Corruption Perception Index 2012”. This time the… Available in Russian … Today I want to present to readers a rather unusual article. It describes how one research center sent a request for the resignation of the Spaniard Pedro Agramunt, a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council… The recent revelation that Azerbaijan has pursued a policy of bestowing gifts of caviar on parliamentarians and officials at the Council of Europe comes as no surprise to those who follow the interactions of the Counci… Cleopatra, queen of ancient Egypt, bathed in asses’ milk for the good of her complexion, but here in Baku, capital of Azerbaijan, an even more surprising treatment is on offer. Disrobing from their Gucci or Oscar de la… Today’s visit here by Elmar Mammadyarov, the Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan heading up a delegation of Azeri officials and businessmen, is part of a Latin American swing whose motive (in the words of his ministry) is t…Corruption as management style of Azerbaijani Republic
PACE: No to Strasser, yes to Agramunt
Caviar diplomacy: From Valencia to Azerbaijan
Europe’s Caviar Diplomacy With Azerbaijan Must End
Filthy rich: Britain's favourite dictatorship had so much oil its heiresses bathe in it... but beneath the fabulous wealth of Azerbaijan lurks very murky secrets
Azeris woo Argentina by playing oil card
