Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan posted real GDP growth of 5.0% y-o-y over the first eight months of the year, bucking the regional trend to be the only Caucasus country to avoid recession. Sustained... 2009-10-27

An Azeri court of appeal on October 9 confirmed a three-month jail sentence for journalists Sardar Alibeili and Faramaz Allakhverdiyev, both convicted for slander against a high-ranking... 2009-10-27

Azerbaijan posted real GDP growth of just 2.7% y-o-y over the first seven months of the year, a sharp drop off from the 16.7% expansion recorded during January-July 2008. The latest... 2009-08-28

United Nations human rights experts and European Union officials have urged the Azeri government to end curbs on free speech. On July 20, an EU delegation including Swedish Foreign... 2009-08-28

We have revised down our end-2009 inflation forecast to 5.0% y-o-y to factor in lower than expected consumer price growth through to July. Nonetheless, we maintain that the trend... 2009-08-28

Russia's gas monopoly Gazprom has announced that it expects to sign a deal with the Azeri government next week regarding securing gas exports from the latter. However, we believe... 2009-06-26

While the recent talks between the presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia did not result in a breakthrough over the issue of the frozen conflict of Nagorno-Karabakh, we believe the... 2009-06-22