Azerbaijan’s new card-to-card transfer limits target shadow economy but raise questions

Court proceedings involving politicians, civil society representatives and journalists 1. On July 29, the Baku Court on Grave Crimes held another hearing in the case of Bashir Suleymanli, head of the Institute for Civil Rights, who was arrested as...

The Azerbaijani government has designated a 711.4-square-kilometre area of the Caspian Sea as a renewable energy zone, creating a legal basis for the construction of the country’s first offshore wind farms. Decision No. 251, signed by Prime Minister...

A dispute between Armenia and Russia over restrictions on Armenian exports has spread to the railway sector, turning control of transport infrastructure into a new instrument of pressure in relations between the two formal allies. Armenian Prime...

Trials of politicians, civil society representatives and journalists On July 27, the Baku Court on Grave Crimes held the final hearing in the Toplum TV case, presided over by Judge Azer Taghiyev. Akif Gurbanov, coordinator of the Third Republic...