Foreign policy

On June 10, 2026, the seventh Trans-Caspian Forum was held at the National Press Club in Washington, organized by the U.S.-based Caspian Policy Center (CPC). This year’s forum theme — “The Middle Corr...

What Lies Behind the Relaunch of the Ferry Route Between Kazakhstan and Russia? Kazakhstan and Russia have agreed to restore ferry services between the ports of Kuryk and Makhachkala, a route that has...

Why the Washington–Tehran Memorandum Could Redraw the Strategic Map of the Middle East If a memorandum of understanding between the United States and Iran is signed in Geneva in the coming days, it wi...

Japan Turns Toward Azerbaijan: Oil, Logistics, and a New Eurasian Strategy The first official visit to Tokyo in seventeen years by Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov may have received relat...

More than four years after the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, European governments have found themselves confronting a challenge that many only recently considered nearly impossible...

Could Herat Become for the Taliban What Mahsa Amini Became for Iran? When armed morality police officers appeared on the streets of Herat on Tuesday, few could have imagined that the detention of seve...

What Could the New Strike Strategy Lead To? Ukraine is expanding both the geography and intensity of strikes against Russian industrial, military-industrial, and energy facilities in response to conti...

Why the Diplomatic Bargain Between Lukashenko and Washington Continues When Belarusian opposition leader in exile Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya told Reuters last week that further stages of the release of...

Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov has departed for Japan on an official visit. It is the first official visit by an Azerbaijani foreign minister to Japan in the past 17 years. When Azerbai...

The parliamentary elections held in Armenia on June 7 are already being described as one of the most significant political events in the South Caucasus in recent years. The consequences of these elect...

How the Russia–Ukraine Conflict Divided Diasporas and Forced Baku into a Difficult Choice The war between Russia and Ukraine long ago ceased to be merely a conflict between two states. Over four years...

As part of World Environment Day (WED), a session entitled “The Caspian Sea at a Turning Point: Sea Level Decline and Dialogue Between Science and Policy on Regional Action” was held on June 5. During...

When Vladimir Putin stepped onto the stage of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in the summer of 2022, Russia was experiencing one of the most dramatic moments in its modern history. Jus...

A Letter Across the Front Line: Why Zelensky Addressed Putin Directly Wars rarely end when one side stops shooting. More often, they begin to end when one side starts speaking differently. That is why...

Russia is ready to facilitate the development of Azerbaijan's cooperation with the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and is also interested in Baku's participation in the activities of the Eura...

The European Union has announced an emergency support package worth more than €50 million for Armenia after Russia imposed restrictions on imports of several Armenian agricultural products, increasing...