SOCAR cuts Azerbaijan emissions by about 1 million tonnes and issues $200 million in green bonds

The budget, oil revenues, state-owned enterprises and public oversight The U.S. Department of State’s 2026 assessment Fiscal transparency means that everything involving public money is open to scrutiny: where the money comes from, where it is...

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has ordered 258 million manats, or about $152 million, to be earmarked for accelerating the socio-economic development of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, which Baku aims to turn into a major transport and...

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has approved sweeping amendments to information-security legislation that establish a centralised cyber-incident response system and empower a state authority to seek the termination of websites’ registrations in...

Azerbaijan has tightened the rules governing protection orders for victims of domestic violence, but the effectiveness of the new provisions will depend on the speed of the authorities’ response, interagency information-sharing and access to...