By AZE.US Editorial Team
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s anniversary summit has revived a familiar question for Azerbaijan: Should Baku move closer to the East or...
By AZE.US Editorial Team
The claim that Serzh Sargsyan deliberately handed power to Nikol Pashinyan after betraying an agreement with Moscow is politically seductive.
It would...
By AZE.US Editorial Team
Robert Kocharyan’s arrest does not erase legitimate questions about his family’s wealth. But when law enforcement acts immediately after a public...
By AZE.US Editorial Team
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree allowing the government to place companies and their assets under temporary state management...
By AZE.US Editorial Team
The detention of former President Robert Kocharyan is the latest move against Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s political opponents. Azerbaijan and...
By AZE.US Editorial Team
The Treaty on Eternal Friendship is more than a diplomatic slogan. Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan are building a transport and economic bridge...
By AZE.US Editorial Team
Nikol Pashinyan’s proposed “Fourth Republic” is more than a new name for another Armenian government program.
Yerevan is attempting to redefine the...
By AZE.US Editorial Team
Baku has learned how to build high-rise apartment blocks. It still has not learned how to build complete neighborhoods.
A buyer is...
By AZE.US Editorial Team
The Trump administration is preparing a new sanctions package against Iran that U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has described as the...
By AZE.US Editorial Team
After 60 days of failed diplomacy, President Donald Trump has declared an “Economic D-Day” against Iran. But his most consequential warning...
By AZE.US Editorial Team
A missing food order involving a courier reportedly from India has raised a broader question: how do foreign nationals who cannot...
By AZE.US Editorial Team
Washington has again waived the restriction, but it has not repealed it. For the Trump administration, Section 907 remains a useful...
By AZE.US Editorial Team
Vladimir Putin has spent years cultivating the image of a leader who fears no one.
Russia has nuclear weapons, a vast security...
By AZE.US Editorial Team
A prominent Azerbaijani lawyer has urged citizens to avoid traveling to Russia after reporting that a young Azerbaijani student was detained...
By AZE.US Editorial Team
Dates matter in diplomacy. On Aug. 8, 2008, Russia and Georgia went to war. Russian forces advanced deep into Georgian territory,...
By AZE.US Editorial Team
A year ago, Washington helped Azerbaijan and Armenia lay the political foundation for peace.
The United States is now moving to the...
By AZE.US Editorial Team
Nearly one year after Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan met in Washington, the main result is...
By AZE.US Editorial Team
Nearly a year after the Washington understandings, the South Caucasus has reached the point where diplomatic promises must give way to...
By AZE.US Editorial Team
Armenia’s new government looks almost identical to the old one. That is precisely the point.
After his Civil Contract party won the...
By AZE.US Editorial Team
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze’s speech marking the 11th anniversary of the country’s State Security Service was formally devoted to terrorism,...
By AZE.US Editorial Team
Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia had almost identical GDP per capita levels in 2020. Today, the two neighboring economies are pulling ahead....
By AZE.US Editorial Team
President Ilham Aliyev’s state visit to Kyrgyzstan was significant not only because Baku and Bishkek signed a treaty on allied relations.
The...
By AZE.US Editorial Team
The July 27 phone call between Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Russian President Vladimir Putin should be viewed not as...
By AZE.US Editorial Team
Ukraine’s strike on a vessel linked to Russia-Iran military logistics has shattered the image of the Caspian Sea as an isolated...
By AZE.US Editorial Team
A Ukrainian strike on an Iranian vessel in the Caspian Sea has pushed a long-running shadow conflict into the open, raising...
By AZE.US Editorial Team
For years, Azerbaijan was viewed internationally through a relatively narrow lens: the conflict with Armenia, energy exports to Europe, and its...
By AZE.US Editorial Team
Baku’s famous Nizami Street, known to generations of residents simply as Torgovaya, is gradually being transformed from the capital’s main pedestrian...
A growing Azerbaijani community in Northern Virginia was built partly by newcomers who entered through the southern border and expected time, work permits or...
Yerevan is steadily moving out of Moscow’s political orbit, but economic dependence makes a clean break impossible. Russia, meanwhile, has lost the ability to...
By AZE.US Editorial Team
Russia has long viewed the South Caucasus as a region where Moscow should have the final word.
Governments could change, countries could...
By AZE.US Editorial Team
An ice cream commercial has become one of Azerbaijan's hottest political and cultural debates.
Not inflation.
Not housing prices.
Not corruption allegations.
Not social inequality.
Ice...
By AZE.US Editorial Team
President Ilham Aliyev’s appearance at the Fourth Shusha Global Media Forum was more than a long exchange with foreign journalists. It...