Foreign policy

By opening the European market to Armenian goods, the EU is responding to Russian pressure — but replacing Russia will not be easy In geopolitics, fresh tomatoes, apricots and a bottle of brandy can s...

When Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev took the floor at the SCO Plus meeting on September 1, his speech was devoted less to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization itself than to the new political rea...

The 113,000 border crossings recorded at Upper Lars have revived fears of mobilisation. Yet the data do not so far confirm a new mass migration to the South Caucasus. The Upper Lars crossing between R...

When the leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization gathered in a new congress hall in the Kyrgyz capital, the scale of the meeting carried a political message of its own. Seated around the same...

Russian President Vladimir Putin failed to persuade Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to reconsider his country’s course towards closer ties with the European Union, with the two leaders confirm...

Relations between Armenia and Russia need to be “put on a healthier footing,” Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said as disagreements between the two countries intensify over issues ranging fr...

The leaders of China, Russia, India, Iran and the Central Asian states gathered in Bishkek on 1 September for an anniversary summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation — a grouping that increasin...

An exchange of sharp accusations between Azerbaijani and Polish public television channels has prompted a diplomatic protest from Baku and exposed deeper disagreements between the two countries, rangi...

The CIA director’s proposal for a trilateral meeting has put diplomacy back on the agenda, but Moscow and Kyiv still fundamentally disagree over when negotiations should begin and how the war might en...

President Donald Trump personally ordered CIA Director John Ratcliffe to travel to Moscow on a confidential mission whose contents were kept secret even from some senior White House officials. Accordi...

More than two years after handing the chairmanship of the Non-Aligned Movement to Uganda, Azerbaijan has retained leadership over two structures created at its initiative, as well as a broad network o...

The banking systems of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia operate in the same region, but their relationship with money is different: Baku banks live in the shadow of the oil economy, Tbilisi under the i...

The economic price of peace: Who gains from opening borders and transport links In December 2025 the merchandise of peace was strikingly mundane: 22 railway tank cars filled with AI-95 petrol. SOCAR,...

King Harald V left his successors not a political programme, but a vision of Norway as an open community of equal citizens. Haakon VIII will have to preserve that model amid declining confidence in th...

Azerbaijan has filed a lawsuit against CNN in a United States federal court, accusing the broadcaster of publishing false claims that Israeli military and intelligence units were deployed on Azerbaija...

Nikol Pashinyan’s government has formalised Yerevan’s foreign-policy shift by ceasing to call Moscow a strategic partner. Yet Russia’s military base, cheap gas, bilateral trade and Armenia’s membershi...