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"Erdoğan, in my opinion, the way I see it, has already burned his bridges with the West. He is well aware that the West is a mortal danger, that it is a toxic pole that is in agony and has lost its hegemony."

"If the CSTO troops stay in Kazakhstan even after the situation has stabilized, it will mean a threat, not peacekeeping. This would be the third Russian/CSTO base in the region."

Farid Shafiyev: "If the CSTO troops stay for a long time, it will have serious consequences for Kazakhstan's independence."

The new presidential election will be held in France this year. The rather intense election campaign turned out to be very interesting for us because of the strained relations between Azerbaijan and France due to the biased position of the latter during the second Karabakh war in 2020.

An interview with Dmitry Malyshev, Cand. Sc. (History), Associate Professor at the Faculty of World Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Lead Researcher at the Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

France continues to view Armenia as its main ally and guide in the South Caucasus region, says Igor Ignatchenko, PhD in History, French studies expert, Associate Professor at the Institute for Social Sciences of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA).

They underestimated the modernization of the Azerbaijani army, which allowed the Azerbaijanis to wage modern warfare using UAVs and well-trained special forces.

"Israel and Azerbaijan are effectively cooperating in various areas of security," says Harel Menashri, Head of Cyber at the Holon Institute of Technology, who attended the UNEC Economic Forum in Baku.

An interview with Paul Goble, American political scientist, former special adviser to the US Department of State.

Stuart Evers, chairman of Azertelecom International, talks to Natalie Bannerman about the Digital Silk Way project, a large-scale Asia to Europe route comprised of terrestrial and subsea infrastructure.

He's an Arab, a Christian, and an Israeli Ambassador. George Deek makes the unlikely case for his country.

The Zangezur corridor is very important for Baku because it connects Nakhchivan and the "mainland" Azerbaijan.

Iran and Azerbaijan are neighbors, and their relationship has known both good and bad times. The aggravation we are seeing now is not the most serious one in the last thirty years.

The situation around the Iran-Azerbaijan relations remains one of the most discussed topics in the region. The Islamic Republic of Iran continues to bring absurd, ungrounded accusations against Azerbaijan.

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has given an interview to editor-in-chief of Russian influential “Natsionalnaya oborona” magazine, well-known military expert Igor Korotchenko.

Russian Azerbaijani composer, professor at the Moscow State Conservatory Faraj Garayev talks about music at the junction of European and Oriental cultures.

Suddenly, a cry comes from behind, “Shusha! Hurrah!” and those young soldiers get up and run towards the city. If we had not gotten up at that moment, they would have trampled us, so we had to get up and run too, so that they would not be killed.

Armenia does not believe that the conflict is over. In particular, the issue of the "status" of Karabakh cannot be considered resolved.

The spread of the most insidious strain of coronavirus yet, the Indian Delta variant, has taken on catastrophic proportions in Azerbaijan: the number of daily new cases shot up to thousands and the number of daily new deaths to dozens. The government and public figures of the country are sounding the alarm, urging the population to get vaccinated.

Azerbaijan is negotiating the purchase of $2 billion worth of advanced Israeli weapons, reports the Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom (“Israel Today”), conducting a serious analysis of the upcoming deal.

There have been new positive trends in Azerbaijani-Israeli relations after the end of the 44-day war, the most important one being the opening of trade and tourism offices of Azerbaijan in Tel Aviv, which can be described as a new historical milestone in the bilateral cooperation.

People in Armenia, in general, do not think that Azerbaijan cares about the benefits for Armenia. The common perception here is that Azerbaijan is pursuing goals of its own, namely, carving a corridor from the eastern Azerbaijan not even to Nakhichevan, but to Turkey.

The confrontation with Armenian propaganda turned from diplomatic to public during the 44-day war. According to Mr. Taghizadeh, his online debates with representatives of the Armenian diaspora became regular, often stepping beyond the parliamentary discussion format.

Decades-long disagreements between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh came to an end in November last year, when the two warring sides agreed to a Russian brokered ceasefire deal that put an end to a 44-day devastating war between Baku and Yerevan.