Leigh in Azerbaijan

Thanks to Cristi Karlstead (on my blog role), who teaches at Koc School in Istanbul, I learnt again about Kiva, which organises microloans through the internet for people developing their business. What an inspired idea! The internet makes it possible to loan to Kiva which works with various microloan organisations around [...]

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Had another Azeri lesson this afternoon. This next week is a mountain to climb, in terms of learning conjugations. The conjugated verbs go onto the end of the noun, potentially making quite long words, but so far this is part of what I’m learning. The extra thing is that there’s various endings that [...]

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A simple walk outside almost turned into a few days away from school and a sling for six weeks.
As I’m moving apartments on Monday (that’s the plan from school)  I finally took some original paintings from Australia and Guatemala to the framers’ but even though the temperature has been above zero for a while, there [...]

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It’s good that Azerbaijan is under Europe’s watchful gaze. Original article in Today.Az
10th Jan 2008 The European Union made a statement on Azerbaijani President’s decree of pardon releasing 119 prisoners.

Foreign Ministry of Slovenia chairing the European Union reported that the statement welcomes the president’s act.
“The European Union welcomes the decree [...]

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The following is another straight excerpt from Today.Az. While it gives little information, it indicates that the government is preparing a case against another journalist. While previous posts may indicate that freedom of the press is improving, this may not be the case. Maybe journalist’s imprisonment is not surprising [...]

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