Azerbaijan

by Vladimir Rozanskij | ARMENIA - AZERBAIJAN

During his recent visit to Istanbul, Armenian Prime Minister Pašinyan reportedly gave the green light to the “Turanian route”, which was one of Azerbaijan's main objectives in the war. A direct meeting with Aliyev to finalise the peace agreement between Yerevan and Baku is expected to take place in Baku in mid-July. This would be a turning point that would see Erdogan as the real winner in the region, given the weakening of Moscow and Tehran in global conflicts.

Iran war and its consequences in the Caucasus

by Vladimir Rozanskij | AZERBAIJAN-ARMENIA

Baku accuses Europe of ‘colonialism’

by Vladimir Rozanskij | AZERBAIJIAN - GEORGIA

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev continues to insist that “the Turkic World is our family”—a perspective that resonates increasingly with the rising nationalist sentiment in the majority-Azeri regions beyond the Iranian border, fuelled in part by support for Tabriz’s football team. A phenomenon that the authorities in Tehran are responding to with harsh repression.

| 16/05/2025
| AZERBAIJIAN - IRAN
by Vladimir Rozanskij

The international sanctions against Russia and Iran have allowed Azerbaijan to exploit its central position, and not only in geographical terms. The bet is on a large north-south transport corridor that would open the doors of the Indian Ocean to Moscow, from where it could circumvent any form of pressure.

| 05/03/2025
| AZERBAIJIAN - IRAN

The Russian authorities have not yet recognised their responsibilities in the tragedy that cost the lives of 38 people in Kazakhstan on 25th December and have not responded to the requests for compensation. President Aliev's plane itself is believed to have been targeted and local analysts point the finger at geopolitical manoeuvres. Meanwhile Azerbaijan closes the Dom Rossii suspected of espionage.

| 11/02/2025
| RUSSIA - AZERBAIJAN

Through a wide range of initiatives, the Amor association aims to make Azerbaijanis on the Russian side of the Caspian feel at home. Chaired by Aliev's eldest daughter, it aims to distinguish its community from the diasporas of other peoples, focusing on good relations between Baku and Moscow.

| 29/01/2025
| AZERBAIJAN - RUSSIA
by Vladimir Rozanskij

In the age of sovereignism, Azerbaijan rediscovers one of the largest and longest-lived empires in the Muslim world to claim the historical roots of its statehood ion opposition to Tehran. Akhmedov: ‘The political and economic reforms of its founder Šakh Ismail Khataj should be studied’. Ancient events as a key to reading today's battles of the Aliev dynasty.

| 16/01/2025
| AZERBAIJAN

In his speech at the UN Conference underway in Baku, the Vatican Secretary of State reiterated Pope Francis’s appeal for the 2025 Jubilee. “A new international financial architecture” is needed “that can truly ensure for all countries, especially the poorest and those most vulnerable to climate disasters, both low-carbon and high-sharing development pathways”.

| 13/11/2024
| AZERBAIJAN – VATICAN
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