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Abu Dhabi’s mining giant is taking a closer look at Nakhchivan

Abu Dhabi’s mining giant is taking a closer look at Nakhchivan

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...

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Armenia’s revanchists rise as peace begins to change Caucasus

Armenia’s revanchists rise as peace begins to change Caucasus

Keeping old wounds open has always been easier than building new bridges. Yet as cities are rebuilt, supply chains are reconnected, and pragmatic...

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Azerbaijan and Türkiye eye an “Electric TANAP” for green power

Azerbaijan and Türkiye eye an “Electric TANAP” for green power

For thirty years, the Azerbaijan-Türkiye energy relationship has meant one thing above all: gas, moving in one direction, through pipe. That...

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Nakhchivan gets ready for a corridor that could change its fortunes

Nakhchivan gets ready for a corridor that could change its fortunes

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...

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EU needs Azerbaijan more than it likes to admit

EU needs Azerbaijan more than it likes to admit

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...

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Azerbaijan's railway goes digital to chase Middle Corridor volumes

Azerbaijan's railway goes digital to chase Middle Corridor volumes

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...

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Goldman Sachs raises its oil forecast: what it means for Azerbaijan’s economy

Goldman Sachs raises its oil forecast: what it means for Azerbaijan’s economy

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...

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Franck Papazian wants France to act like the dictatorship it opposes

Franck Papazian wants France to act like the dictatorship it opposes

Last week, on September 2nd, Paris City Hall quietly skipped the opening of a photo exhibition of Armenian nationals imprisoned in Baku over war...

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Baku’s climate week seeks to turn continuity into regional action

Baku’s climate week seeks to turn continuity into regional action

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...

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Michael Rubin’s Somaliland idea looks like a new front in an old war

Michael Rubin’s Somaliland idea looks like a new front in an old war

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...

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Azerbaijan’s battle for a safe return begins beneath the ground

Wars end with ceasefires, declarations, and, at last, with peace agreements. Landmines never end. They lie waiting – in fields, on roadsides, in...

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Can Mecca Defense Alliance reshape security from Middle East to Caucasus?

The newly established defense partnership between Türkiye, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan is already showing signs of evolving beyond its original...

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Armenia’s ‘Fourth Republic’: real break with past or new political narrative?

Over the past week, Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced what he described as the country’s new “Fourth Republic,” presenting a...

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Armenia’s break with Moscow looks more like negotiation than divorce

Nikol Pashinyan has a curious way of leaving a marriage. Armenia's prime minister will not file for divorce from the Collective Security Treaty...

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Kazakhstan’s uranium dilemma puts Azerbaijan at center of Europe’s energy security

With Europe rushing ahead in developing nuclear energy and Western utility companies seeking to reduce their reliance on Russia’s infrastructure,...

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Azeraluminium seeks foothold in Europe as global supply tightens

Aluminum production is amongst the most energy-intensive industrial processes on our planet. The principle in the metal industry is that electricity...

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Azerbaijan wants to turn car assembly into manufacturing

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...

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Azerbaijan sets 3.8 million visitor goal as tourism faces structural hurdles

President Ilham Aliyev signed Azerbaijan's first comprehensive State Tourism Development Programme on August 20, setting a target of 3.8 million...

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Partnership without precedent is becoming a regional force [Op-Ed]

The relationship between Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan is beginning to acquire a logic of its own. The initial political warmth has evolved into something...

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US is leaving Iraq as Baghdad faces new fight for sovereignty [COMMENTARY]

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...

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Pashinyan’s peace strategy runs into Armenia’s old nationalist politics [OPINION]

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...

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What Big Mac Index says about Azerbaijan’s manat?

The Big Mac Index by The Economist is described as a "lighthearted guide to whether currencies are at their correct level." The...

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Azerbaijan’s mining sector is becoming new engine of non-oil exports [ANALYSIS]

Over recent quarters, Azerbaijan experienced a dramatic surge in total import statistics (often growing exponentially). Public and market analysis...

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Pashinyan's reshuffle reveals leader preparing for tough years ahead

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...

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Azerbaijan’s non-oil revenues become key story behind its budget surplus

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...

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Ukraine’s Caspian strike reveals how Iran and Russia wars are converging [Op-Ed]

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...

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World Bank's latest assessment brings new perspective on Baku's challenge in human capital reform

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...

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Azerbaijan's digital Silk Way moves forward as Trans-Caspian cable installation begins

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...

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Baku's Central Asian strategy comes into focus ahead of Bishkek Summit [Op-ED]

Then there are some diplomatic affairs that Western newsrooms tend to label as "regional," an elegant euphemism for "ignore." One...

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Can Azerbaijan turn its AI strategy into real-world results? [INTERVIEW]

Artificial intelligence is expected to become one of the key drivers of Azerbaijan's digital transformation over the coming years. By assigning...

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Why Kazakhstan can no longer rely on one oil route

A few days ago, the Caspian Pipeline Consortium announced the resumption of the loading process at the Novorossiysk Terminal following an interruption...

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Moody's upbeat on Azerbaijan's oil wealth as diversification gains momentum

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...

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US-Saudi nuclear deal puts Iran, Israel in new strategic equation

The U.S. Department of Energy announced a signed Section 123 civil nuclear cooperation agreement between Washington and Saudi Arabia. The 30-year...

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SOFAZ diversifies its portfolio as Azerbaijan’s oil era matures

Last week, Azerbaijan's sovereign wealth fund SOFAZ released one of its traditional monthly reports. Despite the previous increases in its...

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Constitutional reform becomes Armenia's next political battleground

In the coming period, Armenia may find itself facing one of the most significant constitutional challenges ever since the Velvet Revolution of 2018....

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Azerbaijan wins the corridor race, but geopolitics get uncomfortable

This week, the Iranian Railways Administration officially confirmed that construction of the 162 km railway Rasht-Astara will start immediately after...

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Five major takeaways from President Aliyev’s Berlin visit [ANALYSIS]

In Berlin, Azerbaijan gets its most important European endorsement yet. A strong and perhaps bold statement. Well, the original plan was to hold this...

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Can Azerbaijan's regional airports unlock its tourism potential?

Azerbaijan's tourism bureau has a problem that is easier to describe than to solve. It has spent over $10 billion reconstructing Karabakh, has...

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South Caucasus has moved beyond 3+3 format

Unfortunately, not every diplomatic initiative survives contact with the diplomacy that follows it. It sounds so eye-catching and laudable in a way;...

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Baku's tourism boom runs into diversification reckoning by World Bank

For a government that has spent a decade building a tourism industry around five-star hotel chains, Formula 1 circuits and international summits...

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Slovakia's Shusha diplomacy reinforces Azerbaijan's strategic role in Europe

When Slovak President Peter Pellegrini posted on X before boarding his flight to Azerbaijan - "Our two countries have built strong relations....

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Shusha signals Azerbaijan's shift from builder to regional power broker

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...

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Shusha Global Media Forum returns this time in its most consequential form yet

Between July 13 and 14, Shusha will welcome its fourth annual gathering, which has evolved into one of the most significant international media forums...

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Russia's diesel ban reveals Armenia's energy security dilemma

At a televised government meeting chaired by President Putin on Wednesday morning, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak delivered the...

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Azerbaijan's transit boom entering its industrial phase

Excess capacity at the logistics center is often challenging. It involves meeting demand, managing inventory capacity, and addressing all...

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Georgia's Anaklia shift opens door to new investment and stronger Middle Corridor

It took a decade, three administrations, two tender cancellations, a lost arbitration case before the World Bank, and the subtle withdrawal of a...

08.07.2026 40

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Azerbaijan's growing reserves reinforce confidence in manat peg

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...

07.07.2026 40

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NATO at "strategic turning point": What awaits alliance in Ankara? [COMMENTARY]

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...

05.07.2026 40

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Brussels finally realised what Baku has been saying for years

There is a particular quality to diplomatic visits that arrive a little late. It brings the vigor of earnest intentions, tinged by the 'small...

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Europe’s green energy pivot runs through Caspian

It should be understood, however, that there is a distinct variety of infrastructure ambition that originates from a presidential summit, leads to a...

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