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On September 4th, The President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, begun his working visit to Italy, at the invitation of the President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella. 

Tehran is increasingly focused on the political and economic developments in the South Caucasus, making all-out efforts to position itself as a key player in the ongoing regional realignment.

Iran has delivered "several hundred" short-range ballistic missiles to Russia, according to The Wall Street Journal, citing senior American and European officials. One source specified that the weapons have already arrived in Russia.

At the International Cernobbio Forum, President Ilham Aliyev addressed the audience on Azerbaijan’s growing role in the new geopolitical landscape.

Hiding behind the figure of his spokesperson Peter Stano, the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, continues his efforts to destabilize the situation in the South Caucasus.

Azerbaijan is offering major tax incentives to startups that move operations to the country.

The news that Russia has ceased financial payments to separatist Abkhazia did not come as a surprise to those following Moscow-Tbilisi relations in recent months.

Does Iran want the opening of transportation routes through Zangezur, which would connect Azerbaijan with Nakhchivan at all?

On 18-19 August, Russian President Putin came to Azerbaijan on a state visit, the first time ever in the history of Azerbaijani-Russian relations.

Armenia’s tactic is to block progress towards the main goal—a comprehensive peace—through verbosity and talkativeness.

Azerbaijan's main economic goal at present is to accelerate the development of the non-oil sector and increase its role in economic growth. This is crucial for protecting the country from potential shocks in the energy market and ensuring sustainable economic development.

At the opening ceremony of the Summer Paralympic Games on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, the organizers once again proved themselves to be masters of pretense, hypocrisy, and cowardice.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), notorious for its harsh and imbalanced stance toward Azerbaijan, has once again highlighted the double standards inherent in European politics.

The vision of Armenia presented through Rasmussen reflects a desire to transform Armenia from a Russian outpost into a Western outpost.

The peculiarity of the situation is that Armenia took a different approach. It relied on "weapons begging" during the good times of its relationship with Russia.

The Caucasus and Central Asia have emerged as battlegrounds in the new Cold War. Jerusalem and Tehran are jostling for influence.

Since 2020, the peace negotiations between Armenia and Azerbaijan have faced persistent challenges, with various mediation efforts—spanning Washington, Brussels, and Moscow, which have all collapsed by mid-2023.

A new trend has emerged in Western journalism: a genre of sympathetic essays highlighting the "long-suffering" Armenia and its "ordinary citizens". Recently, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, a major German newspaper with a global readership, featured an article titled "How Azerbaijan pressures Armenia."

Navigating complex international affairs requires expertise attuned to global trends and local politics. We read newspapers, academic articles, research memos, and, increasingly, social media posts to learn about the possible trajectories of events. Across the globe, however, we find that many of these predictions are wrong, including those from top universities that each year produce countless scholars.

The recent visit of Ilham Aliyev to Uzbekistan in August 2024 marks the beginning of a new phase in Azerbaijan-Uzbekistan relations.

The global system embodies a diverse political mosaic of state entities and a unified economic space, within which there is an intense search for rational connections.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit in Astana on July 4 marked a central moment for regional cooperation and economic integration.

Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan have officially become allies—a potentially significant outcome of the state visit to Uzbekistan by the President of Azerbaijan.

Hajiyev’s remarks at the Shusha Forum stressed the need to address misinformation in the media.