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Throughout 2022, Baku pursued a more activist foreign policy due to developments in the South Caucasus and the surrounding regions.

Armenian media are reporting that the runaway Russian billionaire Ruben Vardanyan, who was smuggled to Armenia by Russian peacekeepers via secret routes on February 6, has been returned to Khankendi.

An Israeli medical delegation helped correct the facial appearance of dozens of wounded Azerbaijani soldiers.

The Iranian regime and its dominant force, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, continue their information and propaganda war against Azerbaijan.

Hamstrung by bloated bureaucracy, riddled with nepotism and corrupt practices of the most egregious nature and completely out of its depth in setting the global agenda, UNESCO is fast falling into a state of intractable disrepute from which there seems no immediate salvation.

President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola sent a letter to the Speaker of the Milli Majlis of Azerbaijan Sahiba Gafarova. We obtained a photocopy of this letter from credible sources.

Azerbaijan sent the largest number of rescue workers. It is quite logical. Azerbaijani and Turkish peoples are fraternal nations with common linguistic and ethnic roots.

On 9th February the OSCE Permanent Council was supposed to discuss and condemn a deadly armed attack against the Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan in Iran, which happened on 27th January. The debate did not occur when it was scheduled on 2nd February.

The wicked attack on the Azerbaijani embassy in Tehran has done nothing to deter Azerbaijan’s growing friendship with Israel.

Iranian diplomacy has once again embarrassed itself. Iranian Ambassador to Armenia Abbas Badakhshan Zohouri took part in the discussions on "Armenian-Iranian relations in the context of common interests," where he made a whole series of absurd statements.

The spread of false information and propaganda by Armenians with the aim of misleading the international community and avoiding accountability for their illegal activities on the internationally recognized territories of Azerbaijan is a well-known issue.

As Russia and Iran grow weaker while China and Turkey are mired in economic crises, Israel is shifting its diplomatic focus to the Caucasus and Central Asia.

In truth, Armenia remains significantly dependent on Russia economically, as manifested by the close to 70-percent growth in bilateral trade turnover between the two countries in 2022.

The actions of certain members of Congress, such as Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi, to promote separatist entities and provide legitimacy to individuals with criminal affiliations have raised concerns regarding the stance of the United States.

Rather than continuing to exhibit a one-sided posture that parrots the Russian position, the US must genuinely work with both Armenia and Azerbaijan in the pursuit of peace and regional stability.

On February 7th, Azerbaijan disclosed some more details on the violent terrorist attack that occurred on January 27th on the Azerbaijani embassy in the Iranian capital.

Like individuals, countries, too, can be respectable or untouchable. It all depends on how states participate in building the security architecture, in activating the global integration program. If they manage to increase their efficiency, they easily become acceptable or desirable in the accumulation of stabilization potential.

Debris removal continues in Turkey as the earthquake in the south of the country becomes the strongest in the last 100 years. International aid continues to arrive at airports near the disaster area.

The intricate processes of the modern world are not exactly encouraging. Mostly, there is a growing anxiety for the future.

Investigation into political corruption in European institutions continues, and OCCRP joins in with a bombshell of report. OCCRP has discovered that Sargis Mirzakhanyan (Mirzakhanyants), a Russian media expert and head of the International Agency for Current Policys, played a key role in corruption schemes.

Last August an extremist Shiite group stormed the embassy of Azerbaijan in London and briefly took it over. Last week, another radical attacked an Azerbaijani embassy, but this time in Tehran.  

Ukraine faces a long road back to normal life: victory over a terrorist state, complete de-occupation of the territories that the aggressive neighbor has believed to be "its own" for many years, then clearance of monstrously vast minefields and restoration of devastated cities, villages, infrastructure and historical sites. Azerbaijan is now successfully moving along the same path, and Baku's experience can be invaluable for Kyiv.

Israel must be willing to stand by its ally, Azerbaijan, to ensure its own security. A blow to Iran would be a blow to Iranian proxies in the region

Forbes has published an article about Azerbaijan's significant role in addressing Europe's energy security issues and the factors that could pose a threat to energy supplies from Azerbaijan.