ESPN (Free subscription) | yesterday
Striker Mikael Forssell converted a 62nd-minute penalty to give Finland a 1-0 win over Azerbaijan in their World Cup Group Four qualifier on Saturday.
Panarmenian (Free subscription) | yesterday
A new round of trilateral talks between Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan will take place after the Azeri presidential election.
Solomonia (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Michael Totten describes a "frozen conflict": Immediately following Russia's invasion of Georgia and its de-facto annexation of the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the phrase "frozen conflicts" was bandied about so often among the world's foreign policy...
Reporters sans frontières (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
AzerbaijanMonitoring shows president’s rivals and political debate missing from media’s electoral coverageReporters Without Borders today released the results of its monitoring of the Azerbaijani media’s presidential election campaign coverage from 21 to 26 September. The press freedom organisation already published a report on the first four days of its monitoring (17-20 September). The elections,...
Exit Zero (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Michael Totten describes a "frozen conflict":...
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Writing from Azerbaijan, Herron Family News details various meetings that have been held as next week's presidential election draws closer. However, the blog notes, the outcome of the vote is predictable. With the main opposition parties boycotting the election, the incumbent president will be re-elected. The only unanswered question is whether voters will actually bother [...]
FIFA - Latest News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Finland dominated the match, but they needed a second-half penalty kick to get past Azerbaijan, 1-0, in a Group Four qualifier Saturday.
FIFA - Latest News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Scotland were held to a goalless draw by Norway in Group 9, while Finland enjoyed a narrow victory over Azerbaijan in the early Group 4 contest.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hamburg - Mikael Forssell scored from the penalty spot to give Finland a 1-0 win over Azerbaijan while the Faroe Islands picked up a rare point by holding Austria 1-1 in World Cup qualifiers on Saturday. Hanover striker Forssell converted in the 62nd...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Helsinki - Mikael Forssell scored from the penalty spot in the second half to give Finland a 1-0 win over Azerbaijan in Group 4 of the European qualifiers for the 2010 World Cup on Saturday. The Hanover striker converted in the 62nd minute to give th...
Letters in Bottles (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Will the hoped-for calm hold in the Caucasus? As Azerbaijan gets ready for what looks to be a peaceful, if fraudulent, election, things are boiling up in Armenia. Against a backdrop of economic pain , things seem to be heating up on the election front. Would large-scale protests in Armenia counter-balance a peaceful one in Azerbaijan? Does the scale count -- local elections in Armenia versus a presidential...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Excerpt from report by privately-owned Tajik news agency Asia- Plus website Dushanbe, 10 October: Participants in the third interparliamentary conference of Central Asian countries and Azerbaijan adopted a joint resolution in Dushanbe today.
The Armenian Observer Blog (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
The 23rd issue of “Armenian Blogosphere” Radio Program is out and can be downloaded from here. The program brings comments by bloggers on the decline in global markets and shift in US and Russian policies in the Caucasus. Athanatoi has detected warming of Russia-Turkey and Russia-Azerbaijan relations seeing dangers for Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh in this shift [...]
Panarmenian (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
"The impending presidential election in Azerbaijan will not halt Karabakh talks, quite the contrary," Edward Nalbandian said.
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
ALMATY (Reuters) - Internet users in Kazakhstan complained of censorship Friday after being unable to access the popular blogging service Livejournal, but the state-owned telecoms company denied it was blocking it.
