Express analysis

Azerbaijan’s Prosecutor General’s Office has placed three Russian citizens on an international wanted list after an online programme in which the participants discussed the possible overthrow of Azerb...

Azerbaijan recorded fewer drug-related offences in the first seven months of 2026, but the total weight of seized substances rose by more than a quarter, potentially indicating attempts to move larger...

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has signed a decree implementing legislative amendments that allow state-owned real estate, including land, to be exchanged for privately owned property. The new mec...

Court proceedings involving politicians, civil society representatives and journalists On August 13, the Baku Court on Grave Crimes, chaired by Judge Elmin Rustamov, held another hearing in the crimin...

Deputy Minister of Digital Development and Transport Samaddin Asadov met a delegation from CITIC Group, one of China’s leading state-owned companies. The delegation was headed by CITIC Group Vice-Pres...

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has signed a decree establishing a State Audit Information System that will combine budget, tax, customs, banking and procurement data required by the Chamber of Acc...

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has signed a decree adding the Agriculture Ministry to the list of state bodies that receive customs statistics on the country’s import and export operations. The de...

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has signed a decree implementing legislative amendments that establish an electronic registry of breeding achievements and seed-market operators and introduce state...

What happened On August 13, the Ministry of Health and the Management Union of Medical Territorial Units issued a joint statement on an anthrax case linked to the Samukh district. It said laboratory t...

The REAL Party has drafted a law “On the Limits of Digitalization” In recent years, Azerbaijan has seen the rapid digitalization of public administration, government services, payment systems, registr...

Court proceedings involving politicians, civil society representatives and journalists The Sabail District Court, presided over by Judge Parviz Muradov, held a hearing on a complaint filed by detained...

Editorial illustration of the combined strike on the port of Novorossiysk Ukraine used 15 types of missiles, aerial drones and unmanned surface vessels in a large-scale combined strike on Russia’s nav...

Georgia’s only oil refinery, located at the Black Sea port of Kulevi, plans to stop processing Russian crude completely by the end of September and switch to supplies from Kazakhstan and Libya followi...

Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR said it cut greenhouse-gas emissions from its domestic operations by about 1 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2025 and issued $200 million in green b...

The budget, oil revenues, state-owned enterprises and public oversight The U.S. Department of State’s 2026 assessment Fiscal transparency means that everything involving public money is open to scruti...

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has ordered 258 million manats, or about $152 million, to be earmarked for accelerating the socio-economic development of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, which B...