No Azerbaijani bank faces an immediate threat of closure, but weaker lenders are likely to disappear through mergers and acquisitions, economist Akram Hasanov says.
Fewer marriages, more divorces and rising economic and social pressures are reshaping family formation in Azerbaijan. The issue is not whether people reject family life, but whether the conditions for building one remain realistic.
Official contacts between Azerbaijan and Armenia are continuing without signs of a major crisis, but public dialogue remains far more fragile as historical disputes...