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ICFJ is pleased to welcome you to the first-ever pre-election forum in Azerbaijan. The purpose of the program is to generate discussion about issues important to this country on the eve of its presidential elections. A panel of distinguished guests will discuss political pluralism, civil society and economic development. Throughout the evening, the studio audience can ask questions to panelists relating to these three topics.
The program is being broadcast live, worldwide, on the internet as a TV webcast – this is the first time such a event has ever been broadcast on the internet from Azerbaijan.
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 Under a blazing hot sun, the police officer shouts instructions to the hundreds of people standing in the long line that stretches around the Passport Registration Management office building in central Baku. Some people say they started lining up for their international passports at 4 a.m. in order to get a good place in the line.
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.jpg) Sometimes cosmetics and other goods as well as skin care products can be bought in the underground passage at Besh Mertebe in Baku . The cosmetics seller, Ziya, has a big assortment of skin care products, some of which are certified and recommended by a fictitious Doctor Laura. The salesman said that his products are very effective and are in great demand among his customers.
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 It’s 9 o’clock and a long line of people stretches around the Passport office in central Baku. Some began to line up at 2 a.m. in order to increase their chances of submitting their applications for an international passport. Many of the hundreds of people will be turned away.
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 Azerbaijani experts claim that tobacco products smuggling is caused by weak laws and the government’s complicity.
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When a company in Baku wanted to advertise its product last year, it chose a popular opposition paper to get broad publicity – but then it thought again.
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 Seventy-year-old Madat looks at the fences around Akhundov Park and complains about the difficulty crossing the road, because the park is completely fenced.
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 This radio piece by two Baku trainees, Sabina Jafarli and Xumar Huseynova, discusses the hardships of street children in Baku through the eyes of an eleven year old boy named Galib.
The radio report is in Azeri. To read a transcript of this report, click here.
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About 70 people stood in line outside a small government office in this industrial suburb of Baku late one July morning.
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A student of the program and a freelance reporter in Baku, Elkhan Salahov contrasts how Azerbaijan is rich in energy resources yet fails in its healthcare system. His story was published on EurasiaNet.
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