While Europe is trying to reduce imports of Russian gas, Georgia is increasing purchases from the country. The contracts are not available for public scrutiny, but media and international observers are concerned with the shift.
Azerbaijan would be unable to provide much aid in the short term, however, as it has neither the necessary production capacity or the infrastructure in place.
"Along with this, information provocations continue and news agencies are used for that. American President Donald Trump called The Washington Post and The New York Times fake news. His words, not mine."
It has been officially announced that the Turkish aerospace company TUSAŞ will supply a batch of advanced ANKA unmanned aerial vehicles to Kazakhstan in the coming months.
For some time now, outside forces have been interfering in Israel's affairs through lobbyists. In particular, today the pro-Armenian lobby in Israel is stepping up pressure on defense industry companies in order to prevent Israeli arms sales to Azerbaijan.
It has been long known that our "long-suffering" neighbors are quite adept at inventing all kinds of myths. They first blindly believe in those myths themselves and then frantically try to sell them to the rest of the world.
There is an ongoing outflow of the Armenian population from the area controlled by the Russian peacekeepers in Karabakh, says former Azerbaijani Foreign Minister, political analyst Tofig Zulfugarov.
As European gas reserves become scarcer and relations between the West and Moscow worsen, the European Union becomes more active in its search for alternatives to Russian natural gas.
In Armenia, admirers, lawyers and followers of the Nazi Garegin Nzhdeh are trying to prove that the known indictment following the investigation, published back in 2007 and containing direct accusations of collaboration with the Nazis, was allegedly not final and that the charge of collaboration with Hitler was dropped at the end of Nzhdeh's trial.
Especially bizarre is the fact that the Armenian Embassy in Moscow defended the glorification of Nazi Nzhdeh.
Famous Azerbaijani jazz musician will tour the cities of Japan as part of his new collaboration with a music label.
The bill "On approval of the Shusha declaration on allied relations between the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Republic of Turkey" was discussed at the plenary session of the Azerbaijani parliament on February 1, Trend reports.
Baku may be looking to expand aircraft for its small air force with acquisitions from neighbouring Turkey and Georgia, analyst Paul Iddon wrote in Forbes magazine on Monday.
A new situation emerged in the South Caucasus after the end of the 44-day Karabakh War in the autumn of 2020. The war took the lives of thousands of people on both sides. Its outcome determined some issues, left others unresolved, and created some new ones.
Azerbaijani scientist Adil Bagirov has been appointed a member of the College of Experts of the Australian Research Council (ARC).
Essentially, although Baku and Yerevan officially agree on the reopening of railways and highways, they disagree on whether there should be customs and border controls at their border crossings.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s statement that he is prepared to use force to ensure that a transit corridor opens between Azerbaijan proper and the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhichevan opens as called for in the November 2020 declaration ending the 44-day war has sparked outrage in Armenia.
Meanwhile, international firms urged to leave UAE, officials say Iran will not accept interim nuclear deal, and call for details over proposed agreements with China and Russia.
Azerbaijan is “geopolitically critical” to the United States, argues the 1997 book, The Grand Chessboard, by Zbigniew Brzezinski, the national security advisor to former President Jimmy Carter. Counterbalancing Russia is a primary duty of the United States, and the mere placement of Azerbaijan on the map makes it a crucial partner in that effort.
The State Oil Fund of the Republic of Azerbaijan (SOFAZ) has placed a 1 billion euro ($1.1 billion) deposit account within the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (CBRT), Azerbaijan’s Trend news agency reported Friday.
Azerbaijan is ready to supply Europe with some emergency gas should tensions between Russia and Ukraine disrupt shipments.
Commissioner plans Baku visit as anxiety mounts in Brussels over meeting demand if flows drop.
According to recently published official data, more than 46,900 Armenian citizens took Russian citizenship last year, and a total of 153,800 Armenians got Russian passports and left the country in 2017-2021, which makes up about 5.2% of Armenia's population.
The Azerbaijani state oil company, SOCAR, has agreed to import additional amounts of natural gas to Turkey amid a cut in the flow from Iran, a senior official of the company has said.
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