Azerbaijan has been growing its tourism economy for the last decade, reaching a record-breaking number of international travelers in 2019. Once the pandemic hit, the country’s tourism board realized they could use this time to emerge even stronger, thanks to Azerbaijan’s offerings that are equipped for a post-Covid-19 world.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has agreed to provide a loan of $29.3m (€25m) to Azerbaijan’s pasta producer Avrora to enhance the company’s production capacities.
Iran has arrested an "Israeli spy" and a number of other people who were in contact with foreign intelligence services, Iranian state media reported on Monday, without giving the nationality of those arrested.
IRENA added that renewables’ rising share of the total is partly attributable to net decommissioning of fossil fuel power generation in Europe, North America and for the first time across Eurasia (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russian Federation and Turkey).
The recent Azerbaijan-Armenia war over the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh also seems to be the cause of the current interest. The deciding factor that ensured Azerbaijan’s victory was the extensive military employment of drones in what has been one of those rare conventional wars in the last 15 years or more.
The proliferation of swarms will reverberate throughout the global community, as the proliferation of military drones already has echoed. In the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Azeri drones proved decisive.
Ten ministers, leaders of the country, senior police and military officers, and the CEOs of all the major companies in the UAE will come to the event. In addition, there will be delegations from more than 50 countries including Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar, Morocco, Slovakia, Azerbaijan and Croatia.
The last several months have been marked by an intensifying campaign of pressure on Azerbaijan, especially from Western circles and media. This is nothing new to us—we are all too well aware of the sources and the reasons.
A former MIT research student married to the younger daughter of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Bayraktar has been central to Turkey’s emergence as a producer of armed drones. In 2020, his Baykar
Ukraine is said to be carrying out drills using Turkey’s nationally produced TB2 combat drones over the Black Sea and along the border of the flashpoint Donbas region.
American congressmen, lobbying for the interests of Armenia, dumbfounded American taxpayers with another initiative coming from the Armenian lobby. The bill presented by Congressmen Frank Pallone, Jackie Speyer and Adam Schiff contains a proposal to allocate more than $ 100 million to Armenia for reforms in the economy and security, as well as for the reconstruction of the "NKR" which ceased to exist after the Second Karabakh war.
Unlike many Muslim countries but resembling many Christian ones, population growth in Azerbaijan has slowed dramatically, and the current rate of births per woman, 1.9 children per life time, is now below replacement level, although some further increases will occur because of the larger number of potential mothers now.
In an exclusive interview, Jeyhun Bayramov lauds the “close and mutually beneficial” ties between Baku and Jerusalem, which cover “political, economic, military and other fields.”
Liberated after a 30-year occupation, the Nagorno-Karabakh region is set to undergo a complete transformation, from infrastructure to roads and hospitals, with Turkish contractors set to play a key role in the process, according to an investment bank CEO.
The Iran-China agreement is important and it will be beneficial economically for both Tehran and Beijing. The agreement may also strengthen ties between not just China and Iran but also strengthen trilateral cooperation between China, Russia and Iran.
Separatism, as a political practice – especially if it’s a proxy movement – heavily relies on external support for attainment of some sort of legitimacy. The heads of separatist movements strive to build bonds with lawmakers in Western countries to voice what they consider their right to be independent from the country they broke up from.
The Parliament of Azerbaijan has ratified an agreement with Pakistan in the field of prevention of emergency situations, according to a media report.
As a Canadian in London, one thing that makes me roll my eyes is being asked to say the word “about”.
The region’s three economies face distinct challenges as Azerbaijan follows up on its military victory, Armenia licks its wounds and Georgia copes with political turmoil.
What is the Turkic World and what role can it play in modernity, if historically these countries, connected by the language and the common ethnic roots, belonged to different empires, military blocs and even civilizations?
“No, as far as I understand, this is new information,” the Russian presidential spokesman said. “I am unaware if there was a report by the Defense Ministry and if our top
Foreign Minister of Kyrgyzstan Ruslan Kazakbaev met with Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Jeikhun Bairamov on the sidelines of the meeting of the CIS Foreign Ministers Council on April 2 in Moscow.
As mediator in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Russia has sought to maintain influence in Azerbaijan and Armenia following the collapse of the Soviet Union. In pursuing a strategy based on balancing competing Armenian-Azerbaijani interests over the disputed territory, Moscow is able to wield leverage in the South Caucasus without antagonising either Baku or Yerevan.
It may have been the subject of news headlines around the world in recent weeks, but Xinjiang was not on the agenda for an informal meeting of the Turkic Council on