
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan sentences French water executive to 12 years for bribery
Anasse Derraz denies the charges, claiming he only coordinated the work of lawyers assisting Russian–Azerbaijani billionaire Farkhad Akhmedov.

Anasse Derraz denies the charges, claiming he only coordinated the work of lawyers assisting Russian–Azerbaijani billionaire Farkhad Akhmedov.

The organiser, the Baku Initiative Group, regularly hosts conferences on French colonialism.

President Ilham Aliyev pledged it would be a new era of bilateral relations.

The founder of the Gulagu.net project, Vladimir Osechkin, appears to have been the intended victim.

Ruslan Botashev has been in detention in France since 2018.

France is the second EU country to issue a travel advisory within a week.

The leaders of France, Germany, and Poland condemned ‘all activities of the Georgian authorities resulting in the democratic backsliding.’