http://uk.oneworld.net/article/country/31/ en_GB_uk Azerbaijan http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/84018 Petroleum-fuelled prosperity is masking the challenge of oil depletion and removing the sense of urgency that is desperately needed to promote diversification in oil-exporting states, a report warns. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/81141 The editor-in-chief of a pro-government daily paper in Azerbaijan has been sentenced to prison on criminal defamation and insult charges - propelling Azerbaijan to the top of the list of countries jailing journalists in Europe and Central Asia. From Committee to Protect Journalists http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/79594 Thirteen years after the cease-fire agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia, villagers still living along the Azerbaijani frontline remain trapped in a state of neither peace nor war. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/77263 Azerbaijan has become a major source of world oil. But the nation's number of registered drug addicts has also tripled over the past ten years, and a crime underworld has wrapped its tentacles around the oil industry. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/69467 Eleven years after Armenia fought in southern Azerbaijan over a breakaway republic, unexploded landmines continue to make arable land too dangerous to sow and put locals at risk in their daily lives. Discover the process that's slowly giving villagers back their land, and meet some of those the mines have touched. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/69039 In a region dominated by ethnic divisions and a history of violence, development projects are building more than livelihoods--the dividends of peace, education, and understanding have spread across Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/68826 Author Lauren Brodsky explores what the campaign efforts of one political candidate indicate about the state of democracy in Azerbaijan as the country prepares for November 6 general elections. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/67963 The start of election campaigning has reignited the controversy over how independent the country’s new public service television station is. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/117308/1/ As part of The Great Volga River Route project, an International Workshop on Sustainable Development and World Heritage took place on 28-31 July 2005 in Bucharest, Romania.The aim is to link young people through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and engage them in the preservation and promotion of World Heritage and Biosphere sites. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/65965 High level "celebrations" of the opening of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline have made no reference to the continuing disregard for the rights and safety of people who live in its path. BP is the major shareholder. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/65329 The Knit for Kids project has provided over 250,000 sweaters--crafted by volunteer knitters across the United States--to needy kids around the world. Joan McKeon, the 200,000th sweater knitter, recently visited recipients in an Azerbaijan orphanage. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotolink/addhit/58358 UNDP and the government of Azerbaijan are partnering to shape up the country’s e-governance programme. The proposed national governance network will also help curb corruption in Azerbaijan. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/58245 The U.S. defense secretary’s recent visit to Azerbaijan and recent comments by the deputy commander of U.S. forces in Europe are fueling speculations that the former communist country may be one of future military sites for the Pentagon’s rapid deployment force. The U.S. announced last week that it will pull 70, 000 troops from Europe and East Asia as part of the Pentagon’s shift to more mobile armed forces. http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/90786/1/ Construction of a strategic pipeline that is to run from Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean has been stopped after the environmental authorities in Georgia found that the British Petroleum-led consortium that is building it had failed to get the proper clearances. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/100387/1/ Construction of a strategic pipeline that is to run from Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean has been stopped after the environmental authorities in Georgia found that the British Petroleum-led consortium that is building it had failed to get the proper clearances.