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...
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The July 27 phone call between Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Russian President Vladimir Putin should be viewed not as...
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Ukraine’s strike on a vessel linked to Russia-Iran military logistics has shattered the image of the Caspian Sea as an isolated...
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A Ukrainian strike on an Iranian vessel in the Caspian Sea has pushed a long-running shadow conflict into the open, raising...
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For years, Azerbaijan was viewed internationally through a relatively narrow lens: the conflict with Armenia, energy exports to Europe, and its...
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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...
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Russia has long viewed the South Caucasus as a region where Moscow should have the final word.
Governments could change, countries could...
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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...
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President Ilham Aliyev’s appearance at the Fourth Shusha Global Media Forum was more than a long exchange with foreign journalists. It...
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For years, Georgia was the easiest country in the South Caucasus for Western policymakers to understand. It was pro-European, strategically located,...
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The NATO summit in Ankara was formally about Ukraine, defense spending and the future of the alliance. In reality, it revealed...
As more of Baku’s coastline becomes commercialized, families who cannot afford private beach clubs are being pushed onto a shrinking number of overcrowded public...
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Azerbaijan is entering a four-month period of strategic waiting as uncertainty grows across several international disputes affecting the South Caucasus, according to Farhad Mammadov,...
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Russia loves to call itself an energy superpower.
Oil, gas, pipelines, tankers, global markets, grand maps on Kremlin walls.
Then an ordinary driver...
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History rarely returns to international politics on its own. More often, it is brought back when it becomes useful.
That is exactly...
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The visit of Gor Azizyan, coach of UFC fighter Sharabutdin Magomedov, to Baku has triggered a familiar wave of emotion. Some...
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The war in Ukraine and the crisis around Iran may look like two separate stories. They involve different regions, different actors...
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The visit of the president of Turkmenistan to Azerbaijan should not be seen as just another protocol event between two friendly...
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The death of 17-year-old Zahra Mehtizade in a motorcycle crash has shaken many people in Azerbaijan. But the reaction to the...
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The meeting between Azerbaijani presidential aide Hikmat Hajiyev and Armenian Security Council Secretary Armen Grigoryan in Dilijan was more than another...
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Nikol Pashinyan’s election victory in Armenia is being widely read as more than a domestic political result. For many observers, it...
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Azerbaijani politics has no shortage of real problems. Prices are rising. Young people are leaving. Courts, jobs, education, healthcare, corruption and...
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Nikol Pashinyan’s election victory has revived a tempting headline: Armenia is leaving Russia and moving toward the West.
That sounds clean. It...
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Bitcoin was trading near $61,742 on Wednesday, equal to about 104,961 Azerbaijani manats at the official 1.7000 AZN dollar rate. For...
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Azerbaijan is moving toward tighter rules on children’s access to social media, including a proposed minimum age of 16 for independent...
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The public appeals made by Azerbaijani woman Zeynab Javadly have stirred wide debate on social media in recent days.
She has spoken...