· November, 2007

Stories about Azerbaijan from November, 2007

Azerbaijan: Sheki

Carolyn & Jesse's Azerbaijan Peace Corps Blog posts photographs and an account of a visit to the Azerbaijani mountain town of Sheki.

29 November 2007

Azerbaijan: Djulfa

Blogian reports that a documentary highlighting the destruction of an Armenian cemetery in the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhichevan is being distributed to members of the U.S. Congress. However, the Armenian...

29 November 2007

Azerbaijan: Trafficking

Blogian says that war and conflict often prevents Armenians and Azeris from looking at the similarities between the two nations. Unfortunately, one thing that both Armenia and Azerbaijan have in...

20 November 2007

Caucasus: LGBT Conference

Unzipped: Gay Armenia has an exclusive interview with Christopher Atamian, President of the Armenian Gay & Lesbian Association of New York on the situation of the LGBT community in Armenia....

15 November 2007

Azerbaijan: Terror Plot Reality Check

Asking Tough Questions in Tough Places is skeptical about the way last month's foiled attempt to stage terrorist attacks on government offices and diplomatic missions in Baku, capital of the...

14 November 2007

Azerbaijan: Islam and Iran

Paul Goble's Window on Eurasia looks at the reported rise of radical Islam in Azerbaijan as well as the geopolitical and regional implications of relations between Iran and Azerbaijan.

12 November 2007

Azerbaijan: Halloween Bayram!

More Peace Corps Volunteers post an account of preparing for Halloween and introducing the event to schoolchildren in Azerbaijan. This time, albeit belatedly, is the turn of Carolyn & Jesse's...

11 November 2007

Russia: Stalin and the Kurds

Window on Eurasia writes about “the tangled history of Moscow’s involvement with the Kurds during World War II and in the last years of Stalin’s reign.”

7 November 2007

Azerbaijan: Environmental Damage

Registan looks at the environmental damage industrialization from the Soviet era, as well as that accompanying Azerbaijan's current oil boom, has caused in the city of Sumgait.

5 November 2007

Caucasus: Coming Out

Unzipped: Gay Armenia details and analyzes recent examples from Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia of gay men “coming out” about their sexual orientation, as well as cases of others “outing” rivals...

3 November 2007

Azerbaijan: Halloween

Veemo in the Azerbaijan, a Peace Corps blog, reports on this year's Peace Corps Volunteers Halloween party. The blogger says that it was a perfect opportunity to introduce local Azerbaijanis...

2 November 2007

Azerbaijan: Transport

Newly arrived in Azerbaijan, Carolyn and Jesse describe the situation with transport and money in the oil-rich former Soviet republic. In an extended post accompanied by many photographs, Carolyn &...

1 November 2007