Tapdig Farkhadoglu

Women account for only 3.1% of Azerbaijan’s prison population, yet their number has more than doubled in five years. Behind the dry statistics are mothers, children, poverty, trauma and a justice syst...

The spread of mobile applications, online lending and cashless payments is changing the traditional branch model of Azerbaijan’s banks. Official statistics, however, do not yet indicate that digitalis...

The Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships will give Baku global visibility. The real test, however, will be whether the country can turn spectators in the arena into visitors who stay longer and spe...

The Drone and Missile War in the Russia-Ukraine War The scale of strikes, weapon systems, air defence, destruction and economic cost The Russia-Ukraine war began as a conventional contest of artillery...

Azerbaijan’s manat has marked its 34th anniversary in conditions that contrast sharply with the turmoil of its early years: the national currency has been held at 1.70 to the dollar for almost nine ye...

Washington retains the ability to provide assistance to Baku as Armenian-Azerbaijani relations develop, but the measure adopted in 1992 remains a political lever for Congress. The U.S. State Departmen...

A string of August blasts shows that success in mine action should be measured not only in hectares cleared, but in lives saved Four mine explosions in the first two weeks of August injured at least s...

From archival diplomacy to trade and the contest for political influence, relations with Mexico reveal both the achievements and the limits of Azerbaijan’s Latin American strategy. Azerbaijani ambassa...

A 31,200-kilometre road network, digital navigation and the main barriers facing automated transport Kazakhstan’s launch of driverless-car trials in Astana, Almaty and Kosshi in 2026 is an important s...

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...