Domestic politics

In 2025, 784 minors were registered as victims of crime in Azerbaijan. The Child Helpline (116111) received 5,520 appeals that year. These figures show that the system is functioning — but they also r...

A video circulated on social media several days ago showing farmer Emin Hasanli pouring 60 litres of the milk he had produced onto the ground in protest against low purchase prices. According to the f...

Azerbaijan's lakes, reservoirs and changing aquatic ecosystems The unseen water map The Caspian Sea, the Kura and the Araz dominate Azerbaijan's water map. Yet in their shadow lies another system whos...

Azerbaijan produces most of the meat consumed in the country, but this is not enough to consider the market fully self-sufficient. Behind the relatively favourable averages lie dependence on imports,...

Reserves are large — the question is the depth of processing The sector’s real scale: how much metal? In the statistical classification, copper, silver, alunite and gold ores form a separate non-ferro...

Baku has built sorting and waste-to-energy infrastructure, but the country remains better at counting the rubbish it removes than the raw materials it returns to production. Without regional logistics...

Azerbaijan’s central bank has changed its methodology for identifying systemically important insurers, giving greater weight to company assets while simplifying the assessment framework. Central Bank...

Azerbaijan’s central bank has linked the assessment of green bank loans to the national classification system for environmentally sustainable projects, a move expected to improve market transparency w...

Azerbaijan’s central bank has changed the methodology used to identify systemically important banks, shifting the emphasis from assets placed with the regulator to lenders’ actual role in processing p...

Azerbaijani crude is becoming an increasingly scarce commodity. That is both raising its value and threatening its future. Azeri Light, exported mainly through the Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline, remain...

Azerbaijan is directing increasing amounts of money towards healthcare, yet the answer to the central question — how much is spent on preventing disease and how much on treating its consequences — rem...

An international and regional comparison Crime is one of the key indicators reflecting the social, economic and legal condition of any society. Analysing crime statistics is therefore important not on...

Work to drain groundwater in the centre of Baku’s Buzovna settlement has entered its final stage about six months after it began, but state institutions have yet to disclose the project’s cost, source...

The protected-area system: what lies behind the map? The institutional protection of wildlife in Azerbaijan dates back to the 1930s, when the Goygol, Zagatala and Gizilaghaj nature reserves were estab...

Chinese cars, once occupying a relatively narrow niche in Azerbaijan, have become one of the main forces reshaping its automotive market. However, the first seven months of 2026 showed that even the s...

The fall in European Union gas inventories to their lowest level in 13 years is strengthening Azerbaijan’s position as an alternative supplier capable of delivering fuel directly to southern and centr...