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• TRAVEL: MIDNIGHT TRAIN TO TBILISI, GEORGIA (chrisguillebeau.com)

  
  GEORGIA & SOUTH CAUCASUS — Authority: 140
  Greetings, friends and readers. I’ve been traveling in the Caucasus this month, and over the weekend I took advantage of the opportunity to go from Azerbaijan to Georgia on a 15-hour overnight train.Here are a few notes and several videos from the trip. full article >>>
  4 days ago

• RESEARCH: Azerbaijani-Armenian ties emotionally charged, says Caucasus researcher (hurriyetdailynews.com)

  
  GEORGIA & SOUTH CAUCASUS — Authority: 140
  FULYA ÖZERKANTBILISI – Hürriyet Daily NewsA senior researcher at a Caucasus research center says Baku-Yerevan ties are much more flawed than the relationship between Georgia and Russia. He says that despite the August 2008 war, Georgians have a favorable view of Russians but are skeptical of the Kremlin, while in ...
  4 days ago

• Midnight Train to Tbilisi, Georgia

  
  The Art of Nonconformity — Authority: 520
  Greetings, friends and readers. I’ve been traveling in the Caucasus this month, and over the weekend I took advantage of the opportunity to go from Azerbaijan to Georgia on a 15-hour overnight train. Here are a few notes and several videos from the trip. *** So much of travel involves getting lost, experiencing ...
  6 days ago

• Farewell to Baku

  
  Captain JP's log — Authority: 128
  This is the view of Baku from the Sahidler Xiyabani, the war memorials on the hill above the city. And thats the last post on Baku as now in another city whose name those checking their blog hits might be able to guess. More soon....
  1 week ago

• The Port of Baku

  
  Captain JP's log — Authority: 128
  Baku is of course a major port, with ferries across the Caspian Sea to countries such as Kazakhstan and working ships to support the oil industry. So here is a picture for the likes of Tugster There were also pleasure trips around the bay, but the day I was hoping to go it was apparently too choppy.
  1 week ago

• The Communicating Multi-Polar World

  
  Captain JP's log — Authority: 128
  I remember a couple of years ago that if you turned on the TV when travelling youd get pretty much the same list of stations. It would be a couple of local ones, BBC, CNN, then something French or Italian and that would be it - maybe a dozen in total. However in Baku there were 700ish stations with representatives of ...
  1 week ago

• Oil and Gas, Fire and Religion

  
  Captain JP's log — Authority: 128
  Oil is the principle basis of the wealth of Baku, both now and in the past. The landscape north of Baku in the Abseron Peninsula is one of the locations that made the Nobels and Rothschilds rich in the first oil boom at the end of the 19th Century. It is a scene of desolation, of nodding donkeys as far as the eye can ...
  1 week ago

• The Controvertial War Memorial

  
  Captain JP's log — Authority: 128
  On the hill above Baku is the memorial to those who were killed in either the battles for freedom in 1990 or the war in Karabackh. It is a fine place to see the city and the way up is helped by a funicular railway. There is another war memorial that has a more troubled history, for it is for those British and ...
  1 week ago

• Bloggers and youth activists Emin and Adnan jailed in Azerbaijan

  
  Unzipped — Authority: 491
  Azeri bloggers and youth activists Emin and Adnan received jail sentences of 2.5 and 2 years, respectively. ( here and here ) Live blogging from the court hearings and the reactions to that spread via Twitter under the #EminAdnan hashtag. Sadly, this yet another sign of a total deterioration of human rights in ...
  1 week ago

• Jazz in Azerbaijan

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 753
  Jazz in Azerbaijan Before the turn of the 19th century, Baku Azerbaijan was already known for its oil. Europeans gravitated to this city on the shores of the Caspian, and together with local entrepreneurs, they succeeded in producing more than 51 percent of the worlds supply of oil. At about the same time, ...
  1 week ago

• Baku Old City

  
  Captain JP's log — Authority: 128
  At the heart of Baku is the Unesco listed walled Old City. Its a wonderful place to explore whether day or night and get lost in its maze of little streets. One of the high spots, along with the Maiden Tower, is the Palace of the Shirvanshahs (above), that dates back to the 15th Century and has been restored with ...
  1 week ago

• Baku mosque attackers sentenced

  
  Recording — Authority: 467
  A court in Azerbaijan sentences 26 people to lengthy terms in jail over a deadly attack last year on a mosque in Baku.
  2 weeks ago

• Watch FC Baku vs Standard Baku Live Streaming Online

  
  Dapx - Published news — Authority: 178
  Live Streaming "FC Baku vs Standard Baku" Watch Azberaijen football competition..
  2 weeks ago

• ART: Young Artists Residence & Promotion Center in Baku (yaradan.biz)

  
  GEORGIA & SOUTH CAUCASUS — Authority: 140
  YarAdAn YAR – Young Artists Residence & Promotion CenterAD – Music Performance & Recording StudioAN – Art Gallery & Workshop 41, Nizami str, AZ1001, Baku, Azerbaijan +994 12 492 38 37 +994 55 210 82 69 mail@yaradan.biz
  3 weeks ago

• Russian translation of “Artush and Zaur” - Azeri-Armenian gay love story - available online for free download

  
  Unzipped: Gay Armenia — Authority: 127
  I’ve been waiting for this since it has been published. Thanks to the info provided by Alekper Aliyev, the author of “Artush and Zaur”, gay love story between an Azeri and Armenian, it is now available in Russian, online and for free. You may download it here . *For background info - read my post ...
  3 weeks ago

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