Stories about Azerbaijan from September, 2005
Strange Things in Azerbaijan
While travelling about Azerbaijan, Carpetblogger encountered a few oddities.
Azerbaijan Election Report
Neweurasia has posted its latest weekly Azerbaijan election report.
Turkey “Teaching” Azeris to Pay Their Bills
Katy of Blogrel takes issue with an unfortunately framed story about the troubles faced by a Turkish electricity company trying to collect on bills from its Azeri customers.
Azerbaijan Election Monitor
Marianna Idrisova Gurtovnik has posted her latest report on Azerbaijan's parliamentary elections at neweurasia.
Azerbaijan: Orange demonstrations
Registan reports on a demonstration by opposition supporters wearing hard-to-find orange clothing in the Azeri capital, Baku.
Azerbaijan: Candidates lose immunity
Marianna's Parliamentary Elections Monitor reports on the cases of two major opposition candidates for the November polls who are unable to return to Azerbaijan to join the campaign for fear of prosecution.
Azerbaijan: Voter registration drive
Marianna Idrisova Gurtovnik writes about efforts to ensure widespread voter registration ahead of the Azerbaijan elections in November, especially in the mostly ethnic Armenian region of Nagorno Karabakh.
Azerbaijan: Big-name lovers
Omnik Krikorian takes us back to the Azeri roots of one of the world's biggest love stories, Layla and Majnun, and of Eric Clapton's rock anthem, Layla.
Azerbaijan: Mountain Jews
Carpetblogger visits the home town of the Mountain Jews of Azerbaijan, and discovers that most of them live in Moscow, Tel Aviv and New York.
