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On September 14th, in a signing ceremony in Baku attended by President Ilham Aliyev and Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the UAE's national...
Keeping old wounds open has always been easier than building new bridges. Yet as cities are rebuilt, supply chains are reconnected, and pragmatic...
For thirty years, the Azerbaijan-Türkiye energy relationship has meant one thing above all: gas, moving in one direction, through pipe. That...
Nakhchivan has long been a geographical enigma of sorts: an enclave of Azerbaijan inhabited by about 460,000 people, cut off from the rest of...
There is a particular kind of diplomatic choreography that gives away more than the speeches do. It must have raised questions as to who was courting...
For a trade route billed as the 21st century's answer to the Silk Road, the Middle Corridor has spent most of its short life apologising for...
Goldman Sachs’s $5 per barrel increase in its oil price forecast may at first glance seem like a normal piece of news about the global energy...
Last week, on September 2nd, Paris City Hall quietly skipped the opening of a photo exhibition of Armenian nationals imprisoned in Baku over war...
The Baku Climate Action Week makes a comeback on the Caspian Sea's coastline on September 7 with a five-day program centered on a principle that...
Forging even the smallest measure of peace and normalcy between Azerbaijan and Armenia has never been easy. It has been so difficult, in fact, that...
Wars end with ceasefires, declarations, and, at last, with peace agreements. Landmines never end. They lie waiting – in fields, on roadsides, in...
The newly established defense partnership between Türkiye, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan is already showing signs of evolving beyond its original...
Over the past week, Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced what he described as the country’s new “Fourth Republic,” presenting a...
Nikol Pashinyan has a curious way of leaving a marriage. Armenia's prime minister will not file for divorce from the Collective Security Treaty...
With Europe rushing ahead in developing nuclear energy and Western utility companies seeking to reduce their reliance on Russia’s infrastructure,...
Aluminum production is amongst the most energy-intensive industrial processes on our planet. The principle in the metal industry is that electricity...
It would be fair to say that when you think about Azerbaijan, you would rarely think about the capacity of its automobile industry - and maybe it...
President Ilham Aliyev signed Azerbaijan's first comprehensive State Tourism Development Programme on August 20, setting a target of 3.8 million...
The relationship between Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan is beginning to acquire a logic of its own. The initial political warmth has evolved into something...
The United States is on the brink of ending one of the longest chapters of its military involvement in the wake of 9/11, with American troops set to...
In the Ararat region of Armenia, there exists a small village that occupies a land area of around eight square kilometres and lies next to the M2...
The Big Mac Index by The Economist is described as a "lighthearted guide to whether currencies are at their correct level." The...
Over recent quarters, Azerbaijan experienced a dramatic surge in total import statistics (often growing exponentially). Public and market analysis...
Following the formation of Armenia’s new government on 3 August, twelve of the same ministers retained their portfolios, with only one change at the...
The Azerbaijan Ministry of Finance released its seven-month budget execution data on Monday in the kind of quiet, matter-of-fact format that fiscal...
War in Ukraine has been ongoing for longer than World War I - yes, you heard it right. It would be difficult and irrelevant to find similarities...
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...