The Formula 2 championship has announced a "supersized" meeting for its next round in Baku. The move will see it host an additional feature race in Azerbaijan and comes just 10 days before the race weekend is due to kick off. It is an unusual and late decision that inevitably raises eyebrows at a time when the end of the Formula 1 season remains uncertain. At present, the Qatar and Abu Dhabi ... Keep reading
The Formula 2 championship has announced a "supersized" meeting for its next round in Baku. The move will see it host an additional feature race in Azerbaijan and comes just 10 days before the race weekend is due to kick off. It is an unusual and late decision that inevitably raises eyebrows at a time when the end of the Formula 1 season remains uncertain. At present, the Qatar and Abu Dhabi ... Keep reading
Air Serbia will operate an average of more than 100 additional weekly flights this winter compared with last year, driven by new route launches and increased frequencies across its network. For the first time during the winter season, the airline will maintain services from Belgrade to Seville, Tenerife, Baku, Alicante, Munich, Tromso and Nizhny Novgorod, as well as from Niš to Vienna and Malta. Belgrade - Dubrovnik flights are also being extended from seasonal summer operations to a year-round service. Combined, these routes will generate an additional 26 weekly departures in each direction. In addition to the new routes, Air Serbia is also increasing frequencies on a number of existing services. The largest increases will be on flights to Tivat, with an additional daily rotation bringing the total to 21 weekly, and Podgorica, with six extra flights for a total of 27 weekly. Frequency growth is also planned for Skopje, increasing from ten to fourteen weekly; Brussels, from three to five; Ljubljana, from fourteen to sixteen; Prague, from nine to eleven; Vienna, from sixteen to eighteen, and Tirana from between eight and ten last winter to twelve weekly. An additional weekly flight will also be added to several other destinations, with the new total number of weekly services shown in brackets: Istanbul (12), Athens (12), Bologna (4), Rome (8), Madrid (5), Bucharest (11), Split (3), Venice (4), Zagreb (10) and Larnaca (11). Air Serbia will reduce frequencies on a select number of routes for a limited period. Services to Gothenburg and Naples, which operated during November and December last year, but not for the remainder of the season, will not run this winter. Furthermore, flights to Barcelona and Thessaloniki will each be reduced from nine to seven weekly in November and December, while the daily rotation from January onwards match those from the previous winter. Overall, Air Serbia has scheduled 20.299 flights for the upcoming winter season, which runs from October 25 to March 27, representing an increase of 16.2% on last winter. The carrier has 2.303.354 seats on sale during the period, up 17.3%, or by an additional 338.916 seats. EX-YU Aviation News
It is almost exactly 10 years since Formula 1 first took to the streets of Baku in June 2016. Everyone was curious to see what Azerbaijan's Grand Prix debut would bring, and plenty had predicted a chaotic race littered with crashes on the street circuit. In the end, things turned out rather differently, and the European Grand Prix sent plenty of Formula 1 fans to sleep - and that was in the early ... Keep reading
Click to expand Image Anar Mammadli, human rights defender and election monitor, Baku, Azerbaijan, February 6, 2024. © 2024 Hannah Wagner/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Photo A court in Azerbaijan on September 7 sentenced the prominent human rights defender and election monitor Anar Mammadli to 13 years in prison following a trial marred by serious due process violations. His co-defendant, civic activist Anar Abdullayev, received a 12-year sentence. Mammadli, 48, spent more than two years in pretrial detention before the Baku Grave Crimes Court convicted him on politically motivated charges including currency smuggling, illegal entrepreneurship, tax evasion, money laundering, and document forgery. The proceedings raise serious fair trial concerns. The court repeatedly rejected the defense’s requests to scrutinize prosecution evidence, question key witnesses in open court, and address inconsistencies in the case materials. Mammadli was also repeatedly denied release on bail. Mammadli chairs the Election Monitoring and Democracy Studies Centre, Azerbaijan's only remaining independent election monitoring group. He has monitored elections and documented electoral violations for more than two decades and was a founding member of the Climate of Justice Initiative, a civil society coalition established ahead of the COP29 climate conference in Baku in November 2024. This is Mammadli's second imprisonment. Azerbaijani authorities arrested him in 2013 and sentenced him in 2014 to five-and-a-half years in prison on similarly dubious finance-related charges. In 2018, the European Court of Human Rights found that his detention had been intended to silence and punish him for his election-monitoring work. While imprisoned, Mammadli received the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in 2014. He was released by presidential pardon in 2016. Mammadli’s conviction comes amid an intensifying government assault on independent civil society and media. In July, a court imposed 12 to 15-year prison sentences on nine journalists and media workers affiliated with Toplum TV. In 2025, AbzasMedia journalists received sentences of up to nine years, while the authorities continued prosecuting journalists and activists associated with other independent outlets and civic groups. Azerbaijan’s international partners should make clear that deepening political and economic ties cannot come at the expense of human rights and call for the immediate and unconditional release of Mammadli and Abdullayev. The Council of Europe should insist that Azerbaijan fully implement European Court of Human Rights judgments concerning politically motivated prosecutions and freedom of association, including by carrying out the legal and institutional reforms needed to prevent similar abuses.
McLaren is parking its H-wing concept for this weekend's Spanish Grand Prix in Madrid, with its version of the rotating Formula 1 rear wing set to return in Baku. The Woking-based team had been working on its own interpretation of the rear wing, which rotates 180 degrees between Corner Mode and Straight Mode, after seeing Ferrari pioneer its concept during winter testing. Following a ... Keep reading
McLaren is parking its H-wing concept for this weekend's Spanish Grand Prix in Madrid, with its version of the rotating Formula 1 rear wing set to return in Baku. The Woking-based team had been working on its own interpretation of the rear wing, which rotates 180 degrees between Corner Mode and Straight Mode, after seeing Ferrari pioneer its concept during winter testing. Following a ... Keep reading
Azerbaijan confirms secret talks between Germany and Russia on Ukraine. Ceasefire agreement by December 31, 2026 at 35.5% YES.
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CryptoBriefing•Editorial Team21 JulAzerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) will launch a new non-stop service between Baku and Brussels on 8 May 2027, further expanding its European network. The route will operate four times a week—on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays—providing direct links between the capitals of Azerbaijan and Belgium. AZAL said the new service is intended to strengthen business, tourism […]
Aviation24.be•André Orban1 JulThere are now ten 747-400 freighters registered in Moldova. The most recent addition is a 2001-vintage, RB211-powered production 747-400F (32571) that had exited service with Azerbaijan-based Silk Way West Airlines at the beginning of the year. The freighter flew to Al Ain, United Arab Emirates (AAN), from Baku (GYD) on June 6 under the call […]