Azerbaijan

December 26, 2025 21:42

• Ishkhanyan's final statement concludes the trial of former Karabakh leaders

  During a hearing at the Baku Military Court, former Nagorno-Karabakh Parliament Speaker David Ishkhanyan delivered his closing statement, denying the charges. The verdict will be announced at the next hearing.

December 26, 2025 16:57

• Baku demanded action from Russia in connection with the AZAL plane crash.

  The Russian Investigative Committee's announcement that the criminal case had been terminated has raised questions among Azerbaijani authorities, said Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov, adding that Baku expects compensation from Moscow.

December 26, 2025 12:00

• Red Cross workers visited Armenian prisoners in Baku

  Representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross visited all Armenian prisoners in Azerbaijan. The visit focused on the prisoners' conditions of detention and their health.

December 26, 2025 02:51

• Three former Karabakh officials denied charges in a Baku court.

  Former commander of the Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army Levon Mnatsakanyan told the Baku Military Court that he disagrees with the charges brought against him. Two other defendants expressed a similar position.

December 25, 2025 20:58

• On the anniversary of the crash, Kazakhstan's Ministry of Transport confirmed external damage to the AZAL plane.

  The preliminary results of the investigation into the crash of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane near Aktau have revealed that it was damaged by warhead fragments, but their origin has not been determined. No traces of explosives were found on board, the Kazakh Ministry of Transport stated.

December 25, 2025 17:53

• Karen Avanesyan was sentenced to a lengthy prison term in the terrorist attack case.

  Karen Avanesyan, who remained in Khankendi after the exodus of Karabakh residents to Armenia, was sentenced by an Azerbaijani court to 16 years in prison on charges of attempting a terrorist attack.

December 25, 2025 10:46

• Azerbaijani activists criticized the Amnesty Act

  Azerbaijani activists and journalists living abroad have criticized the Amnesty Act passed by the Azerbaijani Parliament, calling the current amnesty a manipulation.

December 25, 2025 07:54

• The court has reduced the sentence of an Azerbaijani opposition activist.

  The Court of Appeal reduced the term of administrative arrest of the activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan Murad Sultanli.

December 24, 2025 23:59

• The prosecution has requested lengthy sentences for the Caucasus natives in the Moscow terrorist attack case.

  The state prosecution asked the Second Western District Military Court to sentence Ingushetia natives Batukhan Tochiyev and Ramazan Padiev to 26 and 24 years, respectively, and Baku native Robert Safaryan to 28 years. The prosecutor requested a life sentence for the perpetrator of the terrorist attack that killed Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov and his assistant.

December 24, 2025 23:40

• A monument in memory of those killed in the AZAL plane crash has been unveiled in Grozny.

  On the eve of the anniversary of the AZAL plane crash in Kazakhstan, a monument to the victims was unveiled in Grozny. Vladimir Putin today congratulated Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on his birthday. A few days before the anniversary, Aliyev declined to attend the informal CIS summit.

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