This sponsored content was created in collaboration with a Skift partner. Azerbaijan has a history as a Silk Road trading post, is home to sites that speak to its surprising Jewish, German, and Polish ...

After several decades of legal commentary (or rather, lamentations) that UNESCO lacks proper enforcement mechanisms to protect cultural heritage and punish states for their intentional destruction of ...

On 25 December 2023, the Azerbaijan parliament (the Milli Majlis) passed a declaration claiming that, in what is currently Armenia, there was previously an Azerbaijani community that was displaced by ...

Azerbaijan holds a snap presidential election on Wednesday boycotted by the opposition and expected to extend the autocratic rule of President Ilham Aliyev. Here are five points on the culture and ...

Irada Akhoundova remembers when the Soviet military rumbled outside her house. It was late 1991, post-perestroika, pre-independence, and Akhoundova, a principal of one of the schools of the Azerbaijan ...

Indian Ambassador Abhay Kumar inaugurated a cultural exhibition in Baku, highlighting the deep civilizational ties between India and Azerbaijan. The event featured art, dance, and discussions on ...

Baku announced -- then partly walked back -- steps to remove what it calls "fictitious traces” of Armenian heritage from churches now under Azerbaijani control in and around the Nagorno-Karabakh ...

Azerbaijan has cancelled all cultural events planned by Russian state and private institutions in protest over the deaths of two Azerbaijanis after police raids in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg, ...

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Tea is taken in bazaars across the country, where tea-sellers still walk the streets of the city serving the drink to traders and their customers - Copyright AFP Ozan ...