These words, pronounced just a week before the annual Armenian genocide commemoration, resonated strongly in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh. Armenians see in them an open threat of expulsion. Aliyev has said he will not negotiate autonomy for Nagorno-Karabakh or special status for Armenians.

How Tbilisi's Club Culture Inspired A New Techno Scene In Baku. By Yan Matusevich.

A skyscraper that was slated to become a Trump International Hotel in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku has caught fire. The Azadliq newspaper reported that the blaze broke out on the middle floors of the 33-storey building, which is locally known as Trump Tower, and spread. Etibar Mirzoev, deputy head of the Emergency Situations Ministry, said there were no injuries and authorities were working to establish the cause of the of the fire.

The international accolade has an unusual affiliation with the Asian nation's long-standing oil industry.

The President helped build a hotel in Azerbaijan that appears to be a corrupt operation engineered by oligarchs tied to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.

“‘Don’t worry. I have a good canister made in Italy. It doesn’t burst, it just rips,’ Ruslan told me. He noticed me looking at eight corroded and scarred canisters stacked under the belly of a 70’s Soviet truck about two feet away from my face. ‘But those, on the other hand, are old and very dangerous. If one of those canisters blows up, all of them will.’” By Yasha Levine. (Aug. 2006)