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Baku, CICA and emerging power of media diplomacy

Baku, CICA and emerging power of media diplomacy

The Media Forum of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA), held in Baku, is another example of Azerbaijan’s...

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AzerNews

Qabil Ashirov

ADEX shows how Azerbaijan is rewriting its defence strategy

ADEX shows how Azerbaijan is rewriting its defence strategy

Walk the halls of the Baku Expo Center this week and you could, in theory, outfit a small army, tanks from China, loitering munitions from Israel,...

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Akbar Novruz

HADES eyes Azerbaijan localization as cheap drones rewrite air defense economics [EXCLUSIVE]

HADES eyes Azerbaijan localization as cheap drones rewrite air defense economics [EXCLUSIVE]

The rapid evolution of drone warfare is forcing defense companies to rethink not only how unmanned aerial vehicles are detected and intercepted, but...

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Akbar Novruz

Azercosmos looks to Africa and Central Asia for export growth

Azercosmos looks to Africa and Central Asia for export growth

Azercosmos is seeking to expand the international reach of its satellite services, using platforms such as ADEX 2026 to showcase Azerbaijani space...

yesterday 10

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Akbar Novruz

HAVELSAN eyes Azerbaijan partnership built around autonomous warfare [EXCLUSIVE]

HAVELSAN eyes Azerbaijan partnership built around autonomous warfare [EXCLUSIVE]

Türkiye and Azerbaijan could enter a deeper phase of defense technology cooperation centered on autonomous systems, command and control, software,...

yesterday 10

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Akbar Novruz

CEO: Azroksan plans major expansion of defense production in Azerbaijan [EXCLUSIVE]

CEO: Azroksan plans major expansion of defense production in Azerbaijan [EXCLUSIVE]

Azerbaijan and Türkiye are moving into a new phase of cooperation in missile and rocket production, with Azroksan preparing to expand its locally...

yesterday 10

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Akbar Novruz

Azerbaijan’s Absheron gas project: economics behind $4.2 billion investment

Azerbaijan’s Absheron gas project: economics behind $4.2 billion investment

A new major investment phase is beginning in Azerbaijan’s energy sector. The adoption of the final investment decision on the full-scale development...

yesterday 10

AzerNews

Qabil Ashirov

Azerbaijan’s digital investment surges as its non-oil economy seeks new growth

Azerbaijan’s digital investment surges as its non-oil economy seeks new growth

The digital sector still accounts for a relatively small share of Azerbaijan’s economy, but recent figures show that it is growing significantly...

yesterday 10

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Qabil Ashirov

Azerbaijan’s mud volcanoes offer new bet on tourism beyond Baku

Azerbaijan’s tourism industry has expanded considerably over the past decade, but the country still faces the challenge of turning its diverse...

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Qabil Ashirov

Iran’s energy needs are turning Azerbaijan into a strategic lifeline

Iran’s energy needs are turning Azerbaijan into a strategic lifeline

There is a specific kind of dependency that forms between neighbours who have no choice regarding their geography, and the growing Iran-Azerbaijan...

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Akbar Novruz

Uzbekistan eyes Zangezur Corridor as its shortcut to Europe

Uzbekistan eyes Zangezur Corridor as its shortcut to Europe

The TRIPP (Zangezur) Corridor no longer looks like just another road or transport line. If it manages to tie together the countries of Central Asia,...

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Ulviyya Poladova

Beyond drones: what really changed the 2020 Azerbaijan-Armenia War

Beyond drones: what really changed the 2020 Azerbaijan-Armenia War

27 September should be marked not only in Azerbaijan, but across the South Caucasus, as a day associated with the beginning of a new phase in the...

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Qabil Ashirov

Azerbaijan’s energy giant gets closer to Italy’s consumers

Azerbaijan’s energy giant gets closer to Italy’s consumers

SOCAR is implementing a cap on petrol and diesel prices at stations within the Italiana Petroli (IP) network. The Azerbaijani state energy company,...

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Akbar Novruz

President Aliyev sees new investment opportunities beyond oil and gas

President Aliyev sees new investment opportunities beyond oil and gas

There is a revealing tension at the heart of Azerbaijan’s economic story. The country is still an energy exporter, and oil and gas remain central to...

monday 10

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Elnur Enveroglu

UN leadership race exposes growing West-Global South divide

UN leadership race exposes growing West-Global South divide

While the world keeps its eyes on wars, tariffs, and oil prices, a story is quietly unfolding in the corridors of the UN headquarters in New York, one...

27.09.2026 10

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Ulviyya Poladova

Six years after war, South Caucasus faces historic chance for lasting peace

Six years after war, South Caucasus faces historic chance for lasting peace

For years, the world looked at Karabakh as a frozen conflict. Diplomats wrote their reports, mediators gathered around tables in European capitals,...

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Ulviyya Poladova

China’s gold strategy signals broader shift in global investments

China’s gold strategy signals broader shift in global investments

China highly increased its gold purchases this year. Over the first eight months, the country imported more than 1,000 tonnes of the precious metal,...

25.09.2026 10

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Ulviyya Poladova

Baku wants to turn its geography into new economic asset [ANALYSIS]

Baku wants to turn its geography into new economic asset [ANALYSIS]

The 2nd Azerbaijan International Investment Forum held in Baku has become an important platform for discussing Azerbaijan’s economic priorities...

25.09.2026 20

AzerNews

Qabil Ashirov

Azerbaijan looks beyond oil with $5.3 billion industrial expansion

Azerbaijan looks beyond oil with $5.3 billion industrial expansion

Azerbaijan's State Program for the Development of the Mining and Metallurgy Industry for 2027–2030 is a large-scale industrial plan designed to...

25.09.2026 20

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Qabil Ashirov

Peace by miracle, tested by friction - where does Azerbaijan-Armenia stand at?

Peace by miracle, tested by friction - where does Azerbaijan-Armenia stand at?

For a body that the U.S. President Donald Trump spent much of his UN address deriding as useless, the General Assembly gave him an unusually receptive...

24.09.2026 10

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Akbar Novruz

Azerbaijan turns to metals, AI and industry to reduce oil dependence

Azerbaijan turns to metals, AI and industry to reduce oil dependence

Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Finance is increasingly highlighting the country’s evolving economic structure as part of a farsighted strategy to...

24.09.2026 20

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Akbar Novruz

Ukraine’s wheat exports plunge, deepening global food security risks

Ukraine’s wheat exports plunge, deepening global food security risks

The bloody war that has been raging on Ukrainian soil for a long time is a major crisis that has fundamentally shaken global economic and social...

23.09.2026 20

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Qabil Ashirov

What Azerbaijan Central Bank’s latest rate decision means for future cuts?

What Azerbaijan Central Bank’s latest rate decision means for future cuts?

The Central Bank of Azerbaijan announced its latest decision on the refinancing rate today, and the main direction of the decision coincided with the...

23.09.2026 10

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Qabil Ashirov

SOCAR enters Africa continent with Baleine stake in Côte d'Ivoire

SOCAR enters Africa continent with Baleine stake in Côte d'Ivoire

Azerbaijan's state oil company, SOCAR, has moved into Africa's offshore energy scene by picking up a stake in an oil and gas field off the...

23.09.2026 20

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Ulviyya Poladova

New Silk Road runs through Azerbaijan - and Europe is taking notice

New Silk Road runs through Azerbaijan - and Europe is taking notice

An editorial article has been published in one of the influential Polish newspapers, Rzeczpospolita, in which the “Middle Corridor” is called a...

22.09.2026 20

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Azernews Staff

President Aliyev puts Azerbaijan’s mineral wealth at Centre of new industrial push

President Aliyev puts Azerbaijan’s mineral wealth at Centre of new industrial push

President Ilham Aliyev’s remarks at a meeting on September 22 on the “State Program for the Development of Mining (Metal Ores) and Metallurgical...

22.09.2026 10

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Qabil Ashirov

Trump-Xi summit puts AI, trade, rare earths at centre of new US-China contest [ANALYSIS]

Trump-Xi summit puts AI, trade, rare earths at centre of new US-China contest [ANALYSIS]

On the eve of the September 24 meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, representatives of both sides sat down for a closed-door...

22.09.2026 20

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Ulviyya Poladova

Iran-US talks hang in balance as Hormuz remains Tehran's key leverage [EXCLUSIVE]

Iran-US talks hang in balance as Hormuz remains Tehran's key leverage [EXCLUSIVE]

A potential meeting between Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and US President Donald Trump at the United Nations General Assembly in New York is...

22.09.2026 20

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Akbar Novruz

AI’s race to superintelligence is raising a new question: who can hit the brakes?

AI’s race to superintelligence is raising a new question: who can hit the brakes?

Calls to slow down the development of artificial intelligence (AI) are becoming increasingly common within OpenAI. AI experts and policymakers have...

21.09.2026 20

AzerNews

Ulviyya Poladova

How Azerbaijan turned an oil deal into an economic transformation [ANALYSIS]

How Azerbaijan turned an oil deal into an economic transformation [ANALYSIS]

Azerbaijan is celebrating the 32nd anniversary of the "Contract of the Century." Looking back over the past 32 years, we can clearly see the...

21.09.2026 10

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Qabil Ashirov

Azerbaijan’s manat faces global dollar surge with $15 bln buffer

There are solid economic grounds for the stability of the Azerbaijani manat against the US dollar until the end of 2026. The inflow of dollars...

21.09.2026 20

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Qabil Ashirov

Caucasian Albania debate is becoming new battlefield in South Caucasus [OPINION]

Caucasian Albania debate is becoming new battlefield in South Caucasus [OPINION]

The question of Caucasian Albania is far from an issue that usually leads to war. However, the issue has escalated to such an extent that it appears...

20.09.2026 20

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Akbar Novruz

Armenia says it wants peace, so why are its politicians still glorifying Qarabagh’s war?

Armenia is once again facing a question that goes to the heart of its future: does it genuinely intend to close the chapter of conflict with...

20.09.2026 20

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Elnur Enveroglu

Azerbaijan’s sovereignty and long shadow of Armenian revanchism [ANALYSIS]

Today, Azerbaijan marks the restoration of its sovereignty and territorial integrity. Such a landmark development became possible following the...

20.09.2026 20

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Elnur Enveroglu

Empires fell, but poets endured: how Nasimi became symbol of Azerbaijan

If we go back several centuries and look at the history of the ancient East, what we encounter is not only empires, wars and battles for territory....

19.09.2026 20

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Azernews Staff

Azerbaijan’s 2023 anti-terror operation: final chapter of Karabakh conflict

September 19-20, 2023, is one of the most important turning points written in golden letters in the modern statehood chronicle of Azerbaijan. The...

19.09.2026 20

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Qabil Ashirov

SOFAZ's $72 billion to deploy as AI rewrites infrastructure market

Amid fluctuating interest rates in global financial markets and rising geoeconomic risks, sovereign wealth funds are taking more aggressive and...

19.09.2026 20

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Qabil Ashirov

Japan’s rate hike risks unwinding carry trade - What it means for Azerbaijan?

The global economy has entered a new and potentially more complicated phase in monetary policy. The U.S. Federal Reserve raised its federal funds...

18.09.2026 20

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Qabil Ashirov

Green energy becomes new anchor of Baku-London ties

The relationship between Baku and London moved beyond the familiar oil-and-gas script a long time ago, and the latest meeting at the Energy Ministry...

18.09.2026 20

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Ulviyya Poladova

Azerbaijan’s cotton growth shifts focus from export volumes to industrial value

Azerbaijan exported 95.9 thousand tons of cotton fiber in the first seven months of 2026. During the same period last year, this figure stood at 72.7...

18.09.2026 20

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Qabil Ashirov

Fed resets global rate cycle as Azerbaijan builds monetary buffer

The US Federal Reserve (Fed) raised interest rates on Wednesday for the first time in more than three years, increasing the target range for the...

17.09.2026 30

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Qabil Ashirov

Brussels puts €12bn behind a route it once viewed with suspicion

Ursula von der Leyen does not usually use the annual State of the European Union speech to make such announcements about funding freight corridors....

17.09.2026 30

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Akbar Novruz

What does Qobustan Solar Power Plant bring to Azerbaijan?

Increasing the share of renewable energy sources in Azerbaijan’s electricity system has become one of the main directions of the country’s energy...

17.09.2026 20

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Qabil Ashirov

Abu Dhabi’s mining giant is taking a closer look at Nakhchivan

On September 14th, in a signing ceremony in Baku attended by President Ilham Aliyev and Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the UAE's national...

16.09.2026 30

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Akbar Novruz

Baku’s unifying formula: culture, Turkic ties and global diplomacy

For Azerbaijan, the Organisation of Turkic States is no longer simply a forum for cultural affinity. It is becoming an instrument through which Baku...

16.09.2026 20

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Elnur Enveroglu

SOCAR’s $7 billion expansion deepens Azerbaijan’s industrial strategy

In the modern era, as the global energy map is rapidly changing and carbon neutrality targets and the transition to renewable energy are accelerating,...

16.09.2026 20

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Qabil Ashirov

Armenia’s revanchists rise as peace begins to change Caucasus

Keeping old wounds open has always been easier than building new bridges. Yet as cities are rebuilt, supply chains are reconnected, and pragmatic...

15.09.2026 20

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Akbar Novruz

'Turkic quality mark’ could ease market entry for businesses across OTS

Economic cooperation among the Organization of Turkic-speaking States is gaining momentum. But despite this, some companies still face differences in...

15.09.2026 20

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Ulviyya Poladova

Future of Hormuz shipping remains uncertain despite Iran-Oman understanding

Iran and Oman have reached an understanding on specific entry and exit routes for vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz following several weeks...

15.09.2026 20

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Ulviyya Poladova