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The latest World Bank Human Capital Index brings bad news for policymakers in Baku. According to the latest HCI , released in April 2026, Armenia has...
A specialized cable-laying vessel has departed from the Port of Baku to begin installing the Trans-Caspian Fiber-Optic Cable Line toward the port of...
Then there are some diplomatic affairs that Western newsrooms tend to label as "regional," an elegant euphemism for "ignore." One...
Artificial intelligence is expected to become one of the key drivers of Azerbaijan's digital transformation over the coming years. By assigning...
A few days ago, the Caspian Pipeline Consortium announced the resumption of the loading process at the Novorossiysk Terminal following an interruption...
Last year, Azerbaijan passed the milestone that it had failed to pass for decades. The upgrading of Moody's to Baa3 in July 2025, which is the...
The U.S. Department of Energy announced a signed Section 123 civil nuclear cooperation agreement between Washington and Saudi Arabia. The 30-year...
Last week, Azerbaijan's sovereign wealth fund SOFAZ released one of its traditional monthly reports. Despite the previous increases in its...
In the coming period, Armenia may find itself facing one of the most significant constitutional challenges ever since the Velvet Revolution of 2018....
This week, the Iranian Railways Administration officially confirmed that construction of the 162 km railway Rasht-Astara will start immediately after...
In Berlin, Azerbaijan gets its most important European endorsement yet. A strong and perhaps bold statement. Well, the original plan was to hold this...
Azerbaijan's tourism bureau has a problem that is easier to describe than to solve. It has spent over $10 billion reconstructing Karabakh, has...
Unfortunately, not every diplomatic initiative survives contact with the diplomacy that follows it. It sounds so eye-catching and laudable in a way;...
For a government that has spent a decade building a tourism industry around five-star hotel chains, Formula 1 circuits and international summits...
When Slovak President Peter Pellegrini posted on X before boarding his flight to Azerbaijan - "Our two countries have built strong relations....
The Fourth Shusha Global Media Forum was never intended to be merely a platform for presidential messaging. Indeed, the event has become in the last...
Between July 13 and 14, Shusha will welcome its fourth annual gathering, which has evolved into one of the most significant international media forums...
At a televised government meeting chaired by President Putin on Wednesday morning, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak delivered the...
Excess capacity at the logistics center is often challenging. It involves meeting demand, managing inventory capacity, and addressing all...
It took a decade, three administrations, two tender cancellations, a lost arbitration case before the World Bank, and the subtle withdrawal of a...
The Central Bank of Azerbaijan was involved in something that is quite uncommon for the monetary authority of an emerging economy in the first six...
The upcoming NATO Summit in Ankara is shaping up to be far more than another gathering focused on defense budgets. As leaders of all 32 member states...
There is a particular quality to diplomatic visits that arrive a little late. It brings the vigor of earnest intentions, tinged by the 'small...
It should be understood, however, that there is a distinct variety of infrastructure ambition that originates from a presidential summit, leads to a...
The last time Ursula von der Leyen flew to Baku, in the summer of 2022, Europe was in the grip of an energy emergency. Russia had made energy supply...
There is no doubt that cotton in Azerbaijan carries significance far beyond its meager 2% contribution to the overall output in the agriculture...
At an international conference on green tourism in CICA countries held in Baku last week, State Tourism Agency chairman Fuad Naghiyev offered a...
The Israeli cabinet recently made a unanimous decision to recognise the Armenian genocide, 111 years after the incident took place and a couple of...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has escalated pressure on Belarus by demanding that Minsk dismantle infrastructure which Kyiv says is being...
There is a familiar Washington ritual playing out on Capitol Hill on Tuesday that would once have seemed unremarkable. Armenian-American activists in...
Development finance conferences mostly provide two pieces of news: the figure that is released in the press release itself, and the transactions...
Telecommunications contracts are not usually very interesting to read, aren't they? The language used is functional; the press releases are...
The US and Iran reached a 14-point preliminary framework deal aimed at ending hostilities, lifting a US naval blockade, and reopening the Strait of...
The 51st annual meeting of the Islamic Development Bank Group, which opened today in Baku under the patronage of President Ilham Aliyev, is precisely...
Hikmet Hajiyev, Azerbaijani Presidential Aide, has made his inaugural working visit to Armenia, where he met with Armen Grigoryan, the Secretary of...
At a regional agricultural meeting in Goygol on June 12th, Deputy Agriculture Minister Zaur Aliyev announced a target that, on the surface, sounds...
It turns out there’s a bottleneck right through the heart of one of the world’s most active cities, and until recently, it was hard to see any...
The official visit of Nigerien President Abdourahamane Tchiani to Ankara has once again underscored the growing transformation of Türkiye’s Africa...
The votes have been tallied, the outcome is clear, and the interpretation is already hotly debated. Nikol Pashinyan’s Civil Contract party came out...
For the greater part of the last three decades, the shortest overland connection between China and Europe passed through Russia. The Northern...
The United States is seeking a greater role in Azerbaijan’s expanding energy and transport infrastructure, signaling a new phase in economic...
With only one day remaining before the parliamentary elections in Armenia on June 7, debates surrounding the transparency and legitimacy of the...
The global energy landscape is undergoing a profound metamorphosis, one where the traditional boundaries of resource extraction are dissolving into...
The Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway finally got a full-scale launch after opening in 2017 but only running tests for nine years. When it began operations,...
Military parades are designed to communicate. When Armenia staged its first such display in a decade on May 28th in Yerevan's Republic Square,...
Thirty years ago, Azerbaijan was a country importing electricity and natural gas, with a poverty rate above 50 per cent and nearly a million...
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has proposed a new regional security architecture stretching from Pakistan to the Persian Gulf, describing it as...
When Russia wants to remind a neighbour of its dependence, it reaches for the fruit bowl. Recently, the Russian consumer safety regulator, known as...
The World Urban Forum ended in Baku three days ago with a Call for Action on housing and sustainable urbanism. The agricultural development conference...
Since the Gulf crisis, most countries have reevaluated their energy security policies and the methods for delivering energy supplies. Moreover,...