Weekly Political Review

Chronology of events July 27, 2026 The Baku Court on Grave Crimes delivered its verdict against nine journalists and employees of Toplum TV and representatives of the affiliated Institute for Democrat...

July 20, 2026 Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev began an official visit to Germany, which became the week’s central foreign policy event. In Berlin, the head of state met with Michael Harms, Chairman...

Chronology of Events July 13, 2026 President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev attended the opening of the Fourth Shusha Global Media Forum, held under the theme “The Mission of the Media in Promoting Peace:...

Chronology of Events July 6, 2026 Azerbaijan's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jeyhun Bayramov, received the newly appointed United Nations Resident Coordinator in Azerbaijan, Dmitry Shlapachenko. The pa...

Chronology of Events June 29, 2026 Turkic World Week opened at the Heydar Aliyev Center to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the First Turkological Congress of 1926. Azerbaijani President Ilham Ali...

Chronology of Events 22 June 2026 President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedow on a state visit. Following the talks, a broad package of agreements was...

Chronology of Events June 15, 2026 Azerbaijan marked National Salvation Day, one of the country’s key state holidays, associated with the return to power of former President Heydar Aliyev in 1993. Sta...

Chronicle of Events June 8, 2026 The tenth trilateral meeting of the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey took place in Istanbul. Following the talks, the heads of the foreign ministri...

Chronicle of Events June 1, 2026 Baku Energy Week opened in Baku President Ilham Aliyev received a United States delegation led by the Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs Az...

The week of May 25–31, 2026, in Azerbaijan was dominated by two major events: the celebration of Eid al-Adha and the 108th anniversary of the proclamation of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic. From a...

The week from May 18 to May 24, 2026 demonstrated the further strengthening of Azerbaijan’s course toward combining infrastructure modernization, energy diplomacy, and digital public administration. T...

The week of May 11–17, 2026 demonstrated the continued expansion of Azerbaijan’s multi-vector foreign policy amid persistent domestic political and legal tensions and the country’s growing role in reg...

The week in Azerbaijan was marked by active foreign diplomacy, expanding energy cooperation with Europe, discussions surrounding the peace process with Armenia, as well as domestic debates over transp...

The week of April 26 – May 3, 2026 was characterized by a combination of symbolic signals supporting the advancement of the peace agenda alongside a simultaneous increase in foreign policy tensions, r...

The week of April 20–26, 2026 was characterized by an intensification of foreign policy tensions amid active diplomacy, a growing role of security factors and the sanctions agenda, and the continued h...

Azerbaijan resumed the operation of its embassy in Iran one month after the evacuation of staff from Tehran. The diplomatic mission is functioning with a limited staff, with full restoration expected...