A New Approach to Customs Fees: Is the Domestic Metals Market Being Protected, or Are New Risks Emerging?

Revenue earned by Azerbaijan Airlines, or AZAL, from exported services rose by only 1.2% in January-July 2026 despite growing passenger and transit traffic, pointing to a persistent gap between the size of the country’s aviation market and its...

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan discussed on Monday the next steps towards normalising relations, delimiting their border and implementing the U.S.-backed TRIPP transport project. The meeting took place...

The Strait of Hormuz has once again demonstrated an inconvenient feature of naval mines: they do not read presidential statements. Just days after Donald Trump declared the strait’s international waters completely cleared, a supertanker, according...

Icelanders have once again decided that Europe is best kept at a small, carefully calibrated distance. In the referendum held on August 29th, 52.8% of voters opposed resuming negotiations on membership of the European Union, while 47.2% supported the proposal. Turnout reached 82.5%—a rare figure in Europe that demonstrated both the importance of the issue and the depth of the country’s divisions.