Azerbaijan's Ell & Nikki reprise their winning song "Running Scared" at the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest in Dusseldorf, Germany Azerbaijan's Ell & Nikki reprise their winning song "Running Scared" at ...

Sabina Babayeva is not the only Azerbaijani singer preparing for Eurovision. The government apparently has a song to sing, too, and it's called (with apologies to Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Lowe) ...

This post is part of our special coverage Eurovision Azerbaijan 2012. On the eve of the final of the Eurovision Song Contest, held this year in Azerbaijan, police in Baku, the capital, have arrested ...

This post is part of our special coverage Eurovision Azerbaijan 2012. Last weekend, Azerbaijan was shaking, with thousands of people flooding onto the streets of Baku, the capital, in the early hours ...

Last May, Ell & Nikki, an obscure duo from Azerbaijan, won the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest. The country’s President, Ilham Aliyev, treated the musical win like a military triumph, describing it as “a ...

Azerbaijan won the Eurovision Song Contest yesterday, a stunning victory for a country that ranks 90th in population worldwide and doesn't have a pop music tradition that's particularly well-known ...

Voters from around Europe and beyond voted Azerbaijan the winner of Saturday's 56th Eurovision Song Contest. Eldar Kasimov and Nigyar Djamal of Ell/Nikki representing Azerbaijan perform their song ...

The Azerbaijani authorities roughed up and arbitrarily detained at least 30 and possibly more than 70 peaceful protesters today as dozens of local and international journalists looked on, Human Rights ...

Eli and Nikki from Azerbaijan took home the coveted Eurovision Song Contest 2011 final prize, beating out other European singers and bands such as Moldova and Blue. The finals for the much-anticipated ...

Hosting The Eurovision Song Contest was a really big deal for Azerbaijan, so foiling an alleged terrorist plot to attack it was a pretty big deal too, which the country kept secret for weeks. As The ...