Express analysis

The high figure in the state employment system points not only to demand for workers, but also to gaps in pay, skills, geography and the expectations of labour market participants. Azerbaijan’s Minist...

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has signed a decree establishing a Media and Broadcasting Council, a single state body that will assume the powers of the abolished Media Development Agency and Audi...

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has ordered the creation of an organising committee for the Azerbaijan International Investment Forum, signalling an effort to turn the event into a regular platform...

BP and its partners in the Azeri–Chirag–Gunashli project invested just over $1 billion in developing the field complex during the first half of 2026, increasing capital expenditure by nearly a third a...

Azerbaijan is introducing mandatory verification of documents certifying that imported goods comply with technical requirements. The reform is intended to restrict imports of unsafe and substandard pr...

The decree issued by the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan on August 6, 2026, marks the next stage of institutional reforms aimed at improving the corporate governance model of state-owned compa...

Court proceedings involving politicians, civil society representatives and journalists 1. On August 2, the Baku Court on Grave Crimes held another hearing in the case of Vugar Mammadov, editor-in-chie...

Completion of the Aktau–Sumgayit offshore link is turning the two countries’ transport partnership into a telecommunications alliance. The project’s commercial success, however, will depend on terrest...

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Wednesday signed a decree setting out how a new law protecting children on social media will be enforced. The law bars people under 16 from opening individual acc...

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has signed a decree simplifying transfers of state-owned fixed assets with an initial value of 5,000 manats or less between government entities, a move that could sp...

On August 15, the Baku Metro will begin the main phase of one of its most important infrastructure projects in decades. Baku Metro CJSC is starting construction to separate the Red and Green lines. Du...

Azerbaijan is moving towards a new customs governance model that concentrates strategic decisions at presidential and cabinet level while assigning the State Customs Committee a predominantly executiv...

Azerbaijan’s government will introduce the Herfindahl–Hirschman Index, widely used in international antitrust practice, to assess corporate mergers and market concentration, in a move that could make...

By Resolution No. 256 of August 3, 2026, the Cabinet of Ministers approved four important regulatory rules ensuring the implementation of the Law “On Compulsory Insurance against the Loss of Occupatio...

Azerbaijan’s government has updated the legal framework for credit guarantees and interest subsidies intended to improve access to finance for businesses operating in territories retaken by Azerbaijan...

BAKU, Aug 3 — Azerbaijan is introducing new mechanisms to manage its energy-efficiency policy, establish digital monitoring systems and protect public funds allocated to the sector. A decree signed by...