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Ankara’s recent announcement in June 2023 on reducing Turkey’s heavy dependence on Russian gas has sent shockwaves through regional energy sectors.

A statement by Council of Europe (CoE) Secretary-General Marija Pejčinović Burić is without a doubt a classic example of the notorious double standards.

Jerusalem and Baku have forged a “strategic partnership” with relations between the two nations at an all-time high and only expected to grow, a senior Azerbaijani presidential representative said Monday.

One year ago, in a piece titled “Towards Armenian–Azerbaijani rapprochement: Initial steps,”[1] I evaluated the initial developments towards the rapprochement undertaken by the governments of both Azerbaijan and Armenia, and Armenia and Türkiye.

The Kremlin has been using frozen conflicts on the fringes of the Russian empire for decades, thawing and refreezing them to suit its immediate objectives: we’ve seen enough of this tactic in Donbass, Transnistria, and South Ossetia.

Prior to his visit to New Caledonia, French President Emmanuel Macron received a letter from the Political Bureau of the Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS).

American society's lack of knowledge of the world leaves the door open for policies influenced by well-funded lobbies.

Madame Anne Boillon, Ambassador of France to our country, preaches: "It is incumbent on the Azerbaijani authorities to guarantee safety and freedom of movement along the Lachin corridor imminently and not to permit the crisis to escalate further."

The EU again sees a "humanitarian crisis" in the situation around the Lachin road. Now Josep Borrell claims that the humanitarian aid problem in Karabakh is really bad.

Shusha in the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan was a fitting location for a global media forum that brought together representatives of the news business from all over the world. It is still being rebuilt and repopulated after its liberation from Armenian occupation in the Second Karabakh War, fought in 2020. But that was very much the point.

Trading the only real friends in the Muslim world for a handshake with an obvious Iranian ally is not a mistake. It is suicide.

Azerbaijan's foreign policy towards Israel has been driven by pragmatism, particularly in the aftermath of its independence following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Armenia-Azerbaijan negotiations "seem to have stalled due to the major issues that the sides continuously fail to reach an agreement on and the geopolitical dimensions of this process.

The hysterics caused by the global media forum in liberated Shusha continue in Armenia.

President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan has held a question-and-answer session with some 200 members of the press from around the world, gathered in the city of Shusha. It was recaptured from Armenia in 2020, during the Second Karabakh War.

The global media forum in Shusha seems to have left an indelible impression on the political crowd on the other side of the line of contact and the conditional border.

Western thinking of Turkish and Azerbaijani Presidents Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Ilham Aliyev has been very wrong.

Maria Zakharova, spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry, commented on Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's remark that the Russian peacekeepers will leave Karabakh in 2025.

Macron today hypocritically complains about Azerbaijan, stirring up the non-existent problem of Karabakh Armenians, sending international observers to Armenia, although there is no reason for it, and yet he blithely ignores the pressing problems of Martinique and Guadeloupe, New Caledonia and the islands of Oceania.

That is not going to happen. But Ruben Vardanyan provided Azerbaijan with more arguments in favor of launching an anti-terrorist operation.

Azerbaijan's foreign policy towards Russia is shaped by two permanent determinants, which play a crucial role in influencing its strategic hedging approach.

The "nationwide protest" show continues in Khankendi. After the first rally in the main square and attempts to "circulate" between the peacekeepers' headquarters, the Red Cross office and the square itself, the fervor deflated a little.

The processes get increasingly aggressive if they do not go the way Russia wants them to. It has suffered a defeat on the Ukrainian front. It cannot get out of the maze.

James Warlick, former American co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, of a not very good memory and sunk into oblivion, known for his long-standing pro-Armenian preferences, recently spoke in one of the Armenian media outlets about the notorious "guarantees for the security and protection of the rights of the Armenians of Karabakh".