Analysis

Car Ownership Is Becoming A Luxury Again In Azerbaijan As Prices Rise

By AZE.US Editorial Team Car ownership in Azerbaijan is again moving closer to a luxury purchase, as average prices rise and buyers increasingly rely on...

Europe Wants Azerbaijani Gas, But Still Lectures Baku

By AZE.US Editorial Team Europe’s relationship with Azerbaijan is cracking not because Baku has suddenly turned away from the West, but because Europe itself keeps...

Pashinyan’s Choice: Cheap Russian Gas Or Expensive European Freedom

By AZE.US Editorial Team Armenia is moving away from Russia faster than at any point in recent memory. The harder question is where exactly it...

Paris Again Bets On Yerevan: Why Baku Is Not Comfortable With France’s Caucasus Game

By AZE.US Editorial Team France is once again trying to build its role in the South Caucasus through Armenia, a strategy that is raising serious...

European Parliament Again Plays Against Peace Between Baku And Yerevan

By AZE.US Editorial Team The European Parliament has again placed itself on the wrong side of the peace process in the South Caucasus, Azerbaijani political...

Attempted Bride Kidnapping In Ganja Ends In Knife Attack And Injuries To Three Women

By AZE.US Editorial Team A mass fight broke out in Ganja during what preliminary reports describe as an attempted bride kidnapping, leaving one person with...

Pashinyan Wants To Visit Baku: Why It Is No Longer Political Fantasy

By AZE.US Editorial Team A possible visit by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to Baku would once have sounded impossible. Today, Azerbaijani commentator Elchin Alioglu...

European Parliament Again Plays Against Peace In The South Caucasus

By AZE.US Editorial Team Azerbaijan’s hard response to the European Parliament should not be mistaken for a rupture with Europe. Baku is not closing the door...

European Parliament Loses Baku, But Europe Cannot Give Up Azerbaijani Gas

By AZE.US Editorial Team Azerbaijan’s parliament on Friday suspended cooperation with the European Parliament in all areas and moved to end its participation in the...

IMF’s Message To Azerbaijan Is Clear: The Era Of Easy Oil Growth Is Fading

By AZE.US Editorial Team The International Monetary Fund’s latest Article IV consultation on Azerbaijan is not a crisis report. That may be the most important...

Ocampo Let It Slip: Who Opens Doors For The Armenian Lobby In Brussels

By AZE.US Editorial Team A video released by Azerbaijani media on Thursday has placed Luis Moreno Ocampo back at the center of a familiar but...

Trump Tightens The Blockade On Iran As Azerbaijan Gains New Strategic Weight

By AZE.US Editorial Team The confrontation between the United States and Iran has moved beyond threats, missiles and warships. It has entered a slower, more...

Azerbaijan Does Not Have To Justify Its Ties With Ukraine To Moscow, Musabekov Says

By AZE.US Editorial Team Azerbaijan does not have to justify its close relations with Ukraine to Moscow, Azerbaijani lawmaker Rasim Musabekov said, describing Ukrainian President...

Revanchists Could Throw Armenia Into The Meat Grinder Again, Musabekov Says

AZE.US Armenia is approaching elections that could affect not only its domestic politics, but also the future of the peace process with Azerbaijan, Azerbaijani lawmaker...

Azerbaijan Should Not Lower Its Guard In Relations With Armenia, Yunus Says

AZE.US Azerbaijan should continue the peace agenda with Armenia, but must not assume that the old risks have disappeared, political analyst Ramiz Yunus said in...

Zelensky’s Visit To Azerbaijan Signals New Geopolitics, Analyst Says

AZE.US Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to Azerbaijan was not merely a bilateral diplomatic event, but a signal of a wider geopolitical realignment across the...

Kyiv And Baku Publicly Formalized What Had Been Developing Quietly For Years

AZE.US Political analyst Vladimir Kopchak says Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to Baku was not just another diplomatic stop, but a public confirmation of a...

S7+ And Azerbaijan: A New Route In The Great Eurasian Game

By Leyla Mammadli for Aze.US Central Asia is moving closer to the center of global geopolitics. The region was long viewed largely through the lens of outside powers: Russia,...

Will The European Union Grant Visa-Free Travel To Azerbaijan?

AZE.US Azerbaijan’s relations with the European Union are entering a more practical phase, with visa policy again becoming one of the most sensitive issues on...

Hormuz Crisis Turns Azerbaijan Into A Key Corridor Between East And West

AZE.US The crisis around Iran and the Strait of Hormuz is becoming more than another Middle East confrontation. It is now a test of global...

U.S. Failed to Achieve a Decisive Result Against Iran, Rustamzade Says

AZE.US Military analyst Agil Rustamzade said the United States did not achieve a decisive outcome in its confrontation with Iran, arguing that none of the...

The United States Is Relying on Pressure, Not a New Major War, Namazov Says

AZE.US Azerbaijani political analyst Eldar Namazov says the current phase of tensions between the United States and Iran looks less like immediate preparation for a...

Attack on Ali Asadov Signals Infighting Within Azerbaijan’s Ruling Elite

AZE.US The recent circulation of a list of properties allegedly linked to Azerbaijani Prime Minister Ali Asadov appears to be less about disclosure and more...

Armenia Invited Into Baku-Tbilisi-Ankara Format, Chechelashvili Says

AZE.US A new regional formula may be taking shape in the South Caucasus. Valeriy Chechelashvili, the former secretary-general of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation organization, said...

Azerbaijan Between Iran, Turkey, Israel and Russia: Shahinoglu’s Analysis

AZE.US Azerbaijan is trying to maintain a delicate balance among several competing regional powers as tensions around Iran, Russia, Turkey and Israel continue to reshape...

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