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Prosecutors in two US states have launched investigation into the donation mechanisms of BLM activists, which threatens to expose the unsightly inner workings of the movement.

An optimistic Eastern Partnership Summit in December bodes well for the future of the EU’s relationship with these post-Soviet countries, writes Željana Zovko

Until the latest months, the EU was criticized in Azerbaijan for reviving the pre-war agenda in Armenia-Azerbaijan relations.

“The Southern Gas Corridor is completed, but our work continues.” President Ilham Aliyev's meaningful phrase at the 8th Ministerial Meeting of the Southern Gas Corridor Advisory Council captures the essence of the tremendous work that has been done under the SGC project.

How then are we to understand the "activity with an Armenian accent" the aforementioned individuals with last names ending in "yan" launched on social media, including the official accounts of their missions?

After the vandalism unleashed on the occupied lands of Azerbaijan by the Armenian aggressors, Yerevan and its various lobbyists had better hold their tongues on the subject of "cultural genocide".

It has been officially announced that the Turkish aerospace company TUSAŞ will supply a batch of advanced ANKA unmanned aerial vehicles to Kazakhstan in the coming months.

For some time now, outside forces have been interfering in Israel's affairs through lobbyists. In particular, today the pro-Armenian lobby in Israel is stepping up pressure on defense industry companies in order to prevent Israeli arms sales to Azerbaijan.

As European gas reserves become scarcer and relations between the West and Moscow worsen, the European Union becomes more active in its search for alternatives to Russian natural gas.

A new situation emerged in the South Caucasus after the end of the 44-day Karabakh War in the autumn of 2020. The war took the lives of thousands of people on both sides. Its outcome determined some issues, left others unresolved, and created some new ones.

The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, scheduled to officially open in the first week of February against the backdrop of strict and tiresome anti-COVID measures, has become one of the international events that hijacked the world's political agenda.

Essentially, although Baku and Yerevan officially agree on the reopening of railways and highways, they disagree on whether there should be customs and border controls at their border crossings.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s statement that he is prepared to use force to ensure that a transit corridor opens between Azerbaijan proper and the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhichevan opens as called for in the November 2020 declaration ending the 44-day war has sparked outrage in Armenia.

Meanwhile, international firms urged to leave UAE, officials say Iran will not accept interim nuclear deal, and call for details over proposed agreements with China and Russia.

Azerbaijan is “geopolitically critical” to the United States, argues the 1997 book, The Grand Chessboard, by Zbigniew Brzezinski, the national security advisor to former President Jimmy Carter. Counterbalancing Russia is a primary duty of the United States, and the mere placement of Azerbaijan on the map makes it a crucial partner in that effort.

According to recently published official data, more than 46,900 Armenian citizens took Russian citizenship last year, and a total of 153,800 Armenians got Russian passports and left the country in 2017-2021, which makes up about 5.2% of Armenia's population.

With all the trouble in the world today it is easy – as many have – to overlook the significance of the peace talks between President Aliyev of Azerbaijan and Prime Minister Pashinyan of Armenia which began in Brussels in December last year.

For the countries in Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus, the current crisis between the West and Russia over Ukraine along with the US-Russian dialogue on European security issues are of existential importance in terms of their independent statehood and sovereignty.

On October 6, 2021, Russia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov met his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir Abdollahian in Moscow to discuss regional security and economic cooperation, and to address important concerns regarding the crisis in the South Caucasus.

As tensions between Russia and Ukraine continued to rise, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev flew to Kyiv ten days ago (January 14) to meet with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

The first round of negotiations between the special representatives of Turkey and Armenia aimed at normalizing relations was held in Moscow, at the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on January 14. Signals regarding the results of the meeting from both sides were primarily positive.

Broken-backed but still wheezing and hissing furiously, the Armenian diaspora has launched a new wave of black PR against Azerbaijan.