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...
By AZE.US Editorial Team
For years, Georgia was the easiest country in the South Caucasus for Western policymakers to understand. It was pro-European, strategically located,...
By AZE.US Editorial Team
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,...
By AZE.US Editorial Team
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...
By AZE.US Editorial Team
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...
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A private family conflict in Azerbaijan has turned into a public argument about something much larger than one couple.
A young woman...
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In Azerbaijan, youth emigration is often explained too easily.
They do not love the country, some say. They look too much to...
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Azerbaijan is debating child benefits as if the issue were a minor budget dispute, not a warning about the country’s future.
One...
A political dispute in Azerbaijan over an EU flag displayed near the monument to Mammad Amin Rasulzade on Independence Day has exposed poor judgment on both sides: a questionable symbolic gesture by opposition activists and an excessive reaction by those who forcibly removed the flag.
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A video circulating on social media from Ukraine has stirred an uncomfortable debate among Azerbaijanis about behavior abroad and the way...
Armenia is entering its parliamentary elections amid one of the sharpest ruptures with Russia in its modern history. Moscow is using markets, gas and political pressure. Nikol Pashinyan is trying to sell voters a different future. The real question is not whether Armenia chooses Europe or Russia, but how much it is willing to pay for leaving Moscow’s orbit.
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Russia appears to have found another “ungrateful ally.” This time, it is Armenia.
The language coming out of Moscow about Yerevan increasingly...
Nikol Pashinyan says Armenians could travel visa-free to the EU within two years. The promise may sound powerful ahead of elections, but the road to visa liberalization depends on reforms, border controls, biometric documents and a political decision in Brussels, not campaign timing.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law allowing the country’s armed forces to be used abroad to protect Russian citizens,...