Express analysis

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on June 16 signed a decree introducing a compensation mechanism for customs-related expenses incurred by micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) exporting...

When Ralf Horlemann summed up his four-year mission in Azerbaijan this week, his farewell press conference appeared to be a carefully calibrated exercise in diplomatic balance: economics, energy, Euro...

The combined net profit of 12 investment companies operating in Azerbaijan’s securities market fell by 39.9% in 2025 to 4.28 million manats, according to the financial reports of market participants....

Russia’s morning strikes on Kyiv on June 15 have become one of the most symbolically and politically significant episodes of the war in recent months, sharply reinforcing the sense that the conflict i...

The global oil market is likely to remain in a zone of heightened volatility in the second half of 2026, although the baseline scenario of international energy institutions points to a gradual decline...

The global economy is entering one of its most sensitive periods in decades — the largest wave of family-business succession in modern history. For thousands of companies around the world, this proces...

Trials involving politicians, civil society representatives, and journalists 1. On June 11, the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan, chaired by Judge Ilkin Rajabov, reviewed the cassation appeal of imprisoned...

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on June 12 approved new rules for airport management, establishing unified principles for regulation, financing and investment activity in the country’s civil aviati...

Azerbaijan has signed a $180 million loan agreement with the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) to finance the first phase of the expansion of the Baku Metro, despite the operator’s continuin...

Azerbaijan’s parliament approved in the first reading on Friday a draft law on the execution of the 2025 state budget, formalizing a rare fiscal surplus that authorities have presented as evidence of...

Azerbaijan’s new State Program for the Development of Agricultural, Fisheries and Aquaculture Production and Processing for 2026–2030 is intended to become one of the country’s main instruments for st...

The Azerbaijani government has approved a new procedure for organizing service parking spaces for state bodies and institutions, determining the number of allocated spaces and the locations of parking...

Azerbaijan is reforming its system of state support for entrepreneurship by transferring responsibility for credit guarantees and interest rate subsidies from the Mortgage and Credit Guarantee Fund to...

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has signed a decree introducing a mechanism for state compensation of part of the transport costs incurred by exporters of non-oil and non-gas products, in a move ai...

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Thursday that Russia's efforts to exert economic pressure on Armenia over its drive to deepen ties with the European Union had failed to achieve their i...

President Ilham Aliyev’s decree signed on June 10 introduced significant amendments to the Law “On Citizens’ Appeals” as well as to the Rules of Records Management for Appeals in State and Municipal B...