While the 44-day war caused severe damages to frontline settlements and civilian casualties on both sides, frequent missile attacks carried out by Armenia towards Azerbaijani cities and infrastructure beyond the frontline raised concerns not only in Baku but also in the EU regarding the security of vitally important energy infrastructure.
The defeat in the recent war between Armenia and Azerbaijan created a shock effect for Armenia, and the shock wave stirred up political and public discussions on the causes and consequences of the defeat in Armenia and in the Armenian community around the world.
Today, radio has been replaced by social media, and in an age of open sources, there is a need for patient, hard-thinking people who can do serious research to get rid of jeers and giggles. There is a need for more than just biting retorts and well-thought-out remarks: someone must seriously analyze the posts and speeches of agitators and populists.
The recent victory of Azerbaijan in the 2nd Karabakh war and its positive resonance in Ukraine, Georgia and other post-Soviet countries is an exception. As nations in such vulnerable position, I believe we have to be aware and focus more on our countries’ problems, goals and interests.
The Turkic Council, on the other hand, is far from romantic ideas. It is built on purely pragmatic interests and seems to be trying to unite a significant part of Eurasia in a new logistical and economic framework. Undoubtedly, there is a great interest in this union (apparently, it is also another next step to counterbalance China), otherwise the project would not have emerged to begin with
After previously denying it, Azerbaijan now says that Armenia fired Russian-made rockets during last year’s war. And now they’re trying to make things difficult for Moscow.
Moreover, the declared priority area of activity of Rossotrudnichestvo is the so-called “Near Abroad” countries—the CIS member states. Yevgeny Primakov Jr. was appointed Head of Rossotrudnichestvo in June last year,
American people overall have been friendly and have welcomed Pakistanis into their fold and vice versa. The two are incomparable of course due to the pretext, however, there have been other examples. A fine example of emotional and cultural ties would be Turkey and even Azerbaijan.
Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko paid a visit to Azerbaijan on 13-14 April. The head of state was scheduled to visit the country and discuss bilateral relations with its leader Ilham Aliyev at the end of last year. But the visit had to be postponed, though not for long.
The great victory of Azerbaijan in the 44-day Patriotic War did not only create a new reality in the region but also ushered in a novel phase of the Azerbaijani relations with partner countries and international organizations.
Azerbaijan has pursued a pro-Western multi-vector foreign policy balancing integration and cooperation with NATO and the pursuit of good relations with Russia. Baku’s relations with the Kremlin were, therefore, never as cold and brittle as those encountered by Georgia and Ukraine whose territories were invaded by Russia in 2008 and 2014 respectively.
Israeli doctors flew to Azerbaijan in March to operate on 150 Azerbaijani soldiers who needed surgery to restore their eyesight. Further, Israel has offered to help rebuild Nagorno-Karabakh territory, the Armenian-occupied territory where Azerbaijan regained control following last fall’s war.
However, the Armenian citizens and the Armenian diaspora living abroad, who ignore all this, lost in the euphoria of their fabricated "ancient history", were seriously mobilized to get their claims and lies across to the world. Their claims are even so persistent that the French, the strongest political and moral supporters of the Armenians, are not afraid to publicize this "Greater Armenia" map at major events.
Image recently submitted to the record as a courtesy of guest contributors. This image shows the destruction of Azerbaijani ancestral graves in Karabakh. Armenians and Azerbaijanis continue to be reeled into the politicization of war crimes committed during the Karabakh conflict, as well as international controversy over wartime and post-2020 ceasefire era rhetoric.
The unofficial summit of the Turkic Council attended by the Hungarian prime minister and the presidents of Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, as well as current and former presidents of Kazakhstan, met on March 31. The group is scheduled to meet for its eighth formal summit in the fall of 2021 in Turkey.
Aleksandr Averin, a Russian who served with the pro-Moscow forces in the Donbass, says that “the Ukrainians have found inspiration in the recent war in Karabakh” and that they “feel themselves “a little like Azerbaijanis” especially because like the latter, they too now have drones they can use against any invader.
Although the collapse of the USSR ended the Cold War, the rivalry between the Western world and Russia, which occasionally reached the point of hostility, is still ongoing. In different regions of the world, these global powers compete with each other for influence. If in 2010-2020, the rivalry in the Middle East was associated with wars, after 2020 the main arena of this rivalry moved to the Central Asian region.
During an online conference on the current situation in the South Caucasus, hosted by Rossiya Segodnya news agency, the executive director of the “Eurasian Development” center Stanislav Pritchin and Alexander Karavayev, a researcher with the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Economics, presented their joint report on the “Settlement of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict and the development of the South Caucasus: prospects and challenges.”
In March 2012, unnamed U.S. diplomats and military intelligence officials exposed Israel Defense Forces and Mossad activities in Azerbaijan, a Muslim country that borders Iran. “The Israelis have bought an airfield,” a senior administration official was quoted as telling Foreign Policy magazine, “and the airfield is called Azerbaijan.”
Both Turkey and Russia are major regional powers with a long history, in particular, an imperial past. The lands of the (geographically) small Azerbaijan between them were historically part of one empire or another, and only in 1918 did they gain a chance to become independent for the first time.
In ending Armenian occupation of Azerbaijani territories in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Russian-brokered accord between Armenia and Azerbaijan in November 2020 removes the Azerbaijani condition for the creation of a regional stability pact in the South Caucasus first proposed in 1999.
On April 8, government officials in Yerevan reported that some Armenian captives, held for months in Azerbaijan, would finally be returning home. Dozens of families of the captives, along with journalists, gathered at the Yerevan airport to await the joyous scenes that were promised.
In a virtual summit late last month of the Cooperation Council of Turkic-Speaking States, also known as the Turkic Council, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan argued for formally upgrading the
At virtual event marking 29 years to the establishment of Jerusalem-Baku ties, senior Azerbaijani official Farid Shafiyev says, "Historians attack the image of the Israelis and the Azerbaijanis. This is antisemitism and anti-Azerbaijanism. Nevertheless, that is also what unites us."
