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.<...
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…
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…
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…
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, …
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