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  • Azerbaijan - Travel ban restricts Azeri journalist from receiving human rights prize

    A travel ban on a prominent Azerbaijani photo and video journalist - imposed just before he planned to travel to receive a prestigious human rights prize - must be lifted immediately, the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) said on 17 June 2013.The ban has prevented Mehman Huseynov from leaving the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, to receive ...

  • GLOBAL MARKETS-Asia assets hammered on China fears Fed upset

    Thu Jun 20, 2013 1:16am EDT * MSCI Asia ex-Japan slides 3.5 pct to 9-month low * U.S. Treasury yields hit 15-mth high, underpin dollar * China "flash" PMI hits 9-month lows * Asian credit market spreads widen 23 points By Chikako Mogi and Wayne Cole TOKYO/SYDNEY, June 20 (Reuters) - Asian markets buckled badly on Thursday after the Federal Reserve heralded an eventual end to free money ...

  • Silent or public diplomacy in Azerbaijan

    What Azeri human-rights defenders and political activists hope will also be discussed is political repression within Azerbaijan, which has increased in recent ...

  • The EU and Azerbaijan Mismatched Objectives

    In this context of a rapidly deteriorating human-rights situation and growing government hostility toward independent and opposition voices, Aliev's determination to seek enhanced relations with the EU based on "equal partnership", without human-rights conditions, is not surprising. But it should be completely unacceptable to the ...

  • China Russia and Uzbekistan drop on U.S. human trafficking list

    The U.S. State Department Wednesday downgraded China, Russia and Uzbekistan on its human trafficking list, meaning they could face sanctions. The department promoted Azerbaijan, Congo-Brazzaville and Iraq from its Tier 2 Watch List to Tier 2. China, Russia and Uzbekistan were moved from the watch list to Tier 3 on the four-tier system. The shifts came as, for the first time, the department was ...


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Antwone Fisher

Antwone Fisher

Antwone Fisher, which tells the story of a man who survived abuse, neglect, racism, and other horrors, is a generically uplifting movie, filled with the kind of bluntly life-affirming feel-goodness you expect to see on a Sunday-night TV movie. This doesnt make it bad in any particular way, merely unsurprising. Oscar-winning actor Denzel Washington, in his directorial debut, has crafted a n ... ...

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  • Centerra Gold risks Kyrgyz collapse

    By Fozil Mashrab A legal dispute between the Kyrgyzstan government and Centerra Gold has entered a decisive stage for both sides after the Kyrgyz parliament instructed the government either to renegotiate a 2009 deal with the Canadian mining company or withdraw its mining license, though Kyrgyz Prime Minister Jantoro Satybaldiev recently ruled out any steps to nationalize the mine. The ...

  • Asia Headed For Losses After Bernanke

    Asian stock markets are poised to open lower on Thursday, falling in step with Wall Street shares after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke hinted that the central bank could moderate the pace of its bond purchases later this year. Japan's ...

  • Baku expands role in Turkish economy

    By Vladimir Socor On March 22 in Copenhagen, the Danish and Turkish prime ministers, Helle Thorning-Schmidt and Recep Tayyp Erdogan, witnessed the signing of agreements between subsidiaries of Danish Moeller-Maersk and Azerbaijan's State Oil Company (SOCAR) to develop a giant port near Izmir in Turkey. The petrochemicals holding Petrokimya (Petkim), majority-owned by SOCAR, is ...

  • The right fare in Azerbaijan

    importing of 1,000 London taxis to Baku, the construction of an international bus station, and a lucrative road-construction project. The group has received preferential treatment and the interlinked companies owned by the families have taken large shares or even monopolized certain transportation sectors like bus transport, taxis, road construction, and cargo-transportation services in the ...

  • Kyrgyz officials take cultural wrong turn

    experiences, and confront the topic of sexual violence. Since American Eve Ensler wrote the play in 1996, it has been performed in over 140 countries and translated into 48 languages. A performance is scheduled for April 12 in Bishkek. The Culture Ministry sent a letter to local media outlets on April 1 saying the Vagina Monologues advocates "unnatural, perverted sex under the slogan of ...

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