• Standing up for European values – the awards campaign
• THE LIST – political prisoners in Azerbaijan (March 2018). Cases identified by a working group made up of human rights defenders, lawyers, journalists and NGOs (initial August 2014 list)
• Open Letter Regarding the Human Rights Situation in Azerbaijan (13 April 2015)
• Media reactions: The Council of Europe and political prisoners
• Leyla Yunus, profile (23 April 2015)
• Rasul Jafarov, profile (23 April 2015)
• Intigam Aliyev, profile (23 April 2015)
• Anar Mammadli, profile (23 April 2015)
• ESI Briefing: The jails of Azerbaijan – A chronology of recent repression by the chairman of the Council of Europe (May to August 2014)
• Thomas de Waal: The Responsibility of a Politician: Leyla Yunus and the Heirs of Andrei Sakharov (11 October 2014)
• Letter of support for the nomination of Leyla Yunus for the European Parliament Sakharov Prize 2014 by Lyudmila Alekseeva, Svetlana Gannushkina, Sergei Kovalyov, and Oleg Orlov (winners of the Sakharov Prize 2009)

• Spring cleaning – the corruption report on the Council of Europe is out (23 April 2018)
• Houses of Cards – Post-truth politics from Skopje to Strasbourg (27 December 2017)
• Merchants of Doubt or investigating Corruption (21 April 2017)
• Open letter to PACE members: backing Sawicki – how to investigate corruption in Strasbourg (27 March 2017)
• Three days that shook Strasbourg – human rights and corruption (27 January 2017)
• The FIFA of human rights – beyond lip-service on anti-corruption (18 January 2017)
• A European swamp – corruption and human rights (17 December 2016)
• Dorian Gray in Europe – The End of Shame and Human Rights (2 June 2015)
• Formula One and human rights – Vaclav and Rasul – Iwinski and the Garden Party (23 April 2015)
• The good news from Greece – Letters from prison (23 February 2015)
• The mercy of Commodus – The failure of Jagland (14 November 2014)
• 2014 and the threat to Sakharov's legacy (16 October 2014)
• Moscow Appeal – The case for Leyla Yunus (2 October 2014)
• Andrei Sakharov and the defence of the unjustly persecuted (23 September 2014)
• The LIST and arrests in Baku – Sakharov prize 2014 – Black Sea in Budapest – Capacity building in Kosovo (4 September 2014)
• Patriarchy in Kosovo – Political Prisoners in Berlin – Godot in Skopje (6 June 2014)
• Oslo abuse debate – Mr Jagland goes to Baku – June 2 Berlin event – a tradition of dissent (19 May 2014)
• The return of the caveman – 10 years enlargement – new ESI fellows scheme (30 April 2014)
• Hunger strike, European values and an Open Letter (23 April 2014)

• Open letter to PACE members: backing Sawicki – how to investigate corruption in Strasbourg (27 March 2017)
• ESI paper: "The Biggest Scandal" – The Sawicki Memorandum and the way forward for the Council of Europe (27 March 2017)
• Open letter to 125 current and former members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (23 April 2014)
• ESI newsletter: Victor Hugo in Baku (26 February 2013)
• Rumeli Observer blog post: Les Miserables in Azerbaijan? (26 February 2013)
• Azerbaijan debacle: The PACE debate on 23 January 2013 (February 2013)
• Showdown in Strasbourg. The political prisoner debate in October 2012 (February 2013)
• ESI Facebook picture story: Ilham the Magician and the Council of Europe – Or: how (not) to make the problem of political prisoners disappear. A Fable in 35 Acts that can be read in 5 minutes! (1 October 2012)

• ESI briefing note: From Russia with threats - The PACE summer session and a dramatic turn (13 July 2017)
• ESI at PACE side event: Corruption Allegations and Transparency in the PACE (24 April 2017)
• Open letter to PACE members: Backing Sawicki – how to investigate corruption in Strasbourg (27 March 2017)
• Rumeli Observer: Sawicki proposal & the battle for transparency in the Council of Europe (26 March 2017)
• Rumeli Observer: Fragility – autumn in a garden in Moscow (one year later) (27 September 2016)
• Berlin: ESI/Harvard workshop on human rights strategies and the costs and consequences of torture (7-8 July 2015)
• ESI in Brussels - ESI sponsors European Parliament event on Azerbaijan (12 May 2015)
• ESI in Strasbourg: ESI advocacy on Azerbaijan at the Council of Europe (21 April 2015)
• ESI at workshop in Bogota: New strategies and practices in human rights (19 March 2015)
• ESI in Budapest: CEU Passion Project with ESI tackles Azerbaijan (14 March 2015)
• ESI at Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum in Batumi: Human Rights in the Eastern Partnership (20 November 2014)
• Rumeli Observer: On the future European order – Ouroboros and why the crisis in Strasburg matters (16 November 2014)
• ESI at Awards Ceremony for the Sakharov Freedom Prize 2014 in Oslo: The dream of a Europe without political prisoners and the grim reality of Azerbaijan (12 November 2014)
• Rumeli Observer: Riddle of the week – ambassador and prisoner (20 October 2014)
• Thomas de Waal on Leyla Yunus and the Heirs of Andrei Sakharov (14 October 2014)
• Rumeli Observer: Sakharov 2014 – vote against repression in Europe (appeal to the European Parliament) (7 October 2014)
• Rumeli Observer: What the 2014 Havel Prize says about the Council of Europe – and what should happen now (29 September 2014)
• Rumeli Observer: Give Ukrainians a real prize. And give the Sakharov prize to Europe's forgotten dissidents (11 September 2014)
• ESI conference in Berlin: "Towards a Europe without political prisoners" (2/3 June 2014)
• Rumeli Observer: Acting now on political prisoners – Six proposals for debate in Berlin (1 June 2014)
• ESI article by Gerald Knaus in Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung: Politische Gefangene? Hier doch nicht! (Political Prisoners? Certainly not here!) (18 May 2014)
• Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Michael Martens, Erdgas und Menschenrechte (Petroleum gas and human rights) (13 May 2014)
• ESI at conference in Oslo: Safeguarding international institutions against authoritarian abuse (13 May 2014)
• Rumeli Observer: The Cat and Mouse principle and the visit by Mr. Jagland in Baku (4 May 2014)

• ESI report: The European Swamp (Caviar Diplomacy Part 2) – Prosecutors, corruption and the Council of Europe (17 December 2017)
• ESI report: Disgraced – Azerbaijan and the end of election monitoring as we know it (5 November 2013)
• ESI paper: A Portrait of Deception. Monitoring Azerbaijan or why Pedro Agramunt should resign (22 January 2013)
• ESI report: Caviar Diplomacy. How Azerbaijan silenced the Council of Europe (24 May 2012)
• Press reactions to "Caviar Diplomacy"

In 2015, ESI and the School of Public Policy of the Central European University worked together on a Passion Project focusing on Azerbaijan. The CEU School of Public Policy organises such Passion Projects between students on a two-year programme for a Master of Public Administration and NGOs, government organisations and policy-oriented companies. This provides the students with a real-life learning experience and is part of their curriculum.

• CEU student Nataliya Novakova in the CEU Weekly: CEU Alumnus in the Heart of Policy Clash (21 October 2015)
• CEU School of Public Policy: SPP Students Galvanize CEU Community on Behalf of Alumni Jailed in Azerbaijan (8 June 2015)
• CEU student Nataliya Novakova in The Activist: In Baku the Bell Tolls for Human Rights in Europe (pp. 14-16) (May 2015)
• CEU students Nataliya Novakova and Saman Sardar in CEU Weekly: CEU Alumnus celebrates his birthday in prison (7 April 2015)
• ESI news story: Budapest – CEU Passion Project with ESI tackles Azerbaijan (14 March 2015)

• ESI report: Generation Facebook in Baku – Adnan, Emin and the Future of Dissent in Azerbaijan (15 March 2011)
• Also available in Azeri: Bakıdakı Facebook nəsli. Adnan, Emin və Azərbaycanda dissidentliyin gələcəyi

• Adnan, Emin and friends – voices of a new generation
• The Emin-Adnan trial and the future of Azerbaijani democracy
• The court case and reactions
• Repression in Azerbaijan
• The legacy of dissent

The Russian perspective

The country the Aliyevs built

Recommended reading

Media reactions

• Priviliged interests? The Russian debate on the South Caucasus (December 2009)
• Russian Print Media and Internet
• Russian Think Tanks
• Russian Audiovisual Media

• Soviet Azerbaijan
• Nationalism, Elchibey and the birth of the Popular Front
• Elchibey's rise and downfall
• The return of Heydar Aliyev
• Soul-searching – what had gone wrong? Debates on identity, democracy and development
• Dynastic succession (2003)
• Oil boom and resource curse
• A color revolution in Baku? (2005)
• The 2008 elections and the end of democracy

• PACE Resolution 1900 (2012) "The definition of political prisoner" (3 October 2012) and other resolutions and reports on Azerbaijan by the Council of Europe
• Christoph Straesser, "The definition of political prisoners" (Draft resolution adopted by the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on 26 June 2012)
• Online resources

Caviar Diplomacy in the media