It appears that the "lauded" Russian army will be floundering in the Ukrainian "swamp" for a long time to come. The myth of the all-powerful Russian military capable of defeating anyone and anything in a heartbeat hyped up by the Kremlin burst quickly in Ukraine.
The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry announced five points of settlement based on the principles of international law, first of all, on the principle of territorial integrity of states and good-neighborly relations.
The West, of course, will scream, as it always does. Well, what is there to scream about? Why build biological laboratories working against Russia?
The Russian authorities decided to block dozens of Russian and foreign websites. At the request of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, Azerbaijani resources Haqqin.az and Minval.az were also blocked.
Azerbaijan’s biggest trade partners in the region, the UAE and Saudi Arabia, have shared economic interests in establishing new trade links, but they also share common threat perceptions regarding Iran and radicalism.
In Baku, the governments of Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a memorandum of understanding concerning the opening of a transportation and communication corridor passing between Azerbaijan proper and its Nakhichevan autonomy some five kilometers south of the border between Armenia and Iran.
Russia’s role in ongoing conflicts in South Caucasus countries is a critical factor in their response.
Azerbaijan’s role as an energy producing and exporting country has long been associated with hydrocarbons. Since 1994 and the signing of the “Contract of Century,” the country has embarked with its international partners on the extraction and transportation of the oil resources of the Caspian Sea to international markets.
Speaking to Trend News Agency, Iranian MP and National Security and Foreign Policy Committee spokesman Mahmoud Abbaszadeh Meshkini said Iran's new government attaches special importance to neighboring countries, particularly Azerbaijan.
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine reverberates across the world, one region particularly susceptible to unfolding geopolitical changes is the South Caucasus.
Nominally, Azerbaijan is allied with Russia and Turkey, but in practice, Baku will likely move to strengthen its ties with Ankara, even as Moscow remains a major trading partner.
It wasn’t so long ago that Azerbaijan was a focus of global attention, the country a rare feature of international headlines after a simmering dispute with neighbouring Armenia over control of Nagorno-Karabakh turned violent.
Thirty years ago this month as western capitals toasted Francis Fukuyama’s end of history, eternal peace and the apparent triumph of liberalism, the Times of London published the first eyewitness account of a tragedy at Khojaly, Azerbaijan — where advancing Armenian forces had accelerated their war in the weeks immediately after the Soviet Union’s fall.
The three countries of the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia) are holding a vigilant and mostly balanced stance amidst the Russia-Ukraine war.
On February 22, just hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin recognized the independence of the Ukrainian separatist areas of Donetsk and Luhansk and two days before the Kremlin head launched his broad-scale re-invasion of Ukraine, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev arrived in Moscow.
Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine has prompted the IEA to take measures to cut dependence on its gas.
While Russia’s invasion into Ukraine rages on, Azerbaijan and Armenia seem to be attempting to normalize their relations. Although the process is expected to be very slow, the two Caucasus archenemies are expected to engage into the economic development of the turbulent region.
Since the outset of my engagement with Azerbaijan in 2009, I became only too aware of the Khojaly Genocide, the worst single atrocity of the Armenian–Azerbaijani conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh.
For most of the year following the 44-day war between Armenia and Azerbaijan in 2020, problems in and between them appeared to dominate both the internal lives of these two countries and in the geopolitical situation of the South Caucasus.
Every day after February 13, the residents of Khojaly were promised helicopters on the radio, but it never happened. All this time, Khojaly was under fire. On February 12 and 13, the Armenian army shelled Khojaly from the direction of Tazabin and Mehdiyabad from BMP vehicles.
Iran invested in a Shia Crescent from Tehran to the Mediterranean encircling Israel, at the expense of influence in the Caucuses.
Azerbaijani politician Sevil Mikailova, on an official visit to Israel, experiences the warmness of the relationship between both countries.
As we know from the history of our civilization, humankind fought over territories, arable land, uranium mines, water, salt... But in the 21st century, the main trigger of almost all military and political conflicts has been oil and gas. One way or another, it was gas feuds that led to the current aggravation of the situation around Ukraine, the country that stands in the way of Russian gas exports to Europe.
The vandalism and barbarism of the Armenians, who targeted the Azerbaijani cultural and historical heritage in the territory of Armenia itself, in the occupied territories of Karabakh and around it, has become a concern for the community.
