For decades Gulf money has poured into luxury property markets, trophy assets and the world’s best-known financial centres. But increasingly it is heading to a former Silk Road hub, where ageing gas infrastructure, a rapidly growing population and economic reforms offer the opportunity to invest in a new energy system. …
Read More »Beryllium on radar: how Kazakhstani industry has become indispensable for the Russian military
President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev on July 25 at a meeting with Vladimir Putin offered him to stop the war in Ukraine. Meanwhile, Russian military plants buy in Kazakhstan all the ceramics made of beryllium, indispensable for military radars, The Insider found out. Exports of products from this chemical compound …
Read More »La Russie et l’Iran utilisent la carotte et le bâton pour inciter l’Azerbaïdjan à démilitariser TRIPP
Le président Ilham Aliyev est un dirigeant rationnel qui pourrait conclure qu’il est préférable de conclure des accords mutuellement avantageux avec la Russie et l’Iran pour résoudre le dilemme sécuritaire de l’Azerbaïdjan, centré sur l’Accord sur les ADPIC, plutôt que de mettre en péril l’avenir de son pays pour faire …
Read More »Five Takeaways From The Secret Russian-German Talks In Baku
Nothing of tangible significance was achieved despite two years of reported talks. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev revealed during a press conference with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz that former German officials held secret talks with Russian officials in Baku in mid-July without his knowledge. An investigation by German media revealed that …
Read More »West’s energy trade with Russian ally must address rights: jailed dissident
A drive by the U.S. and Europe to explore oil and gas opportunities with Azerbaijan must not come at the expense of ignoring human rights restrictions in the gas- and oil-rich post-Soviet state, a jailed opposition figure has told Newsweek. Ali Karimli, chairman of the opposition Azerbaijani Popular Front Party …
Read More »Les États-Unis consolident leur emprise politique sur l’Arménie tout en poursuivant leur stratégie visant à «repousser la Russie»
Les États-Unis continuent de mener leur politique, mise en œuvre depuis des décennies, visant à maintenir leur primauté mondiale en encerclant et en contenant leurs rivaux, comme le décrit un article du New York Times de 1992 intitulé «Le plan stratégique américain vise à empêcher l’émergence de rivaux». Dans le …
Read More »Americanization of foreign policy of Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan is rapidly approaching the United States and NATO as Washington shifts its geopolitical attention from the Russian-Ukrainian war to the South Caucasus. Azerbaijan’s expanding military, political and strategic cooperation with the West risks turning the region into a new center of geopolitical confrontation with the participation of Russia, Iran …
Read More »L’Azerbaïdjan risque de se retrouver sur une trajectoire de collision avec la Russie, à l’instar de l’Ukraine
L’adhésion officieuse de l’Azerbaïdjan à l’OTAN, via sa conformité aux normes du bloc et son alliance avec la Turquie, s’est désormais étendue à une alliance de facto avec l’Ukraine, ce qui accroît naturellement l’évaluation de la menace que représente l’Azerbaïdjan pour la Russie. La Russie et l’Azerbaïdjan sont parvenus à …
Read More »Wheels Down in Tbilisi: Was a Routine U.S. Military Stopover a Deliberate Signal to Iran?
A brief and poorly explained landing of a U.S. military transport aircraft in Tbilisi at the end of March 2026 has become a subject of discussion and speculation about its real significance, fueling suspicions that more complex geopolitical signals may lie behind the official explanation of a “routine flight.” Let’s …
Read More »Can Turkey Cut the Gordian Knot in the Caucasus?
Turkey seeks to position itself as a key peacemaker and regional hub in the South Caucasus. To achieve this, Ankara should move beyond nationalist rhetoric toward a more pragmatic, strategic approach rooted in the international legal order. Armenia-Azerbaijan-Turkey relations resemble the proverbial Gordian knot—the famous tangled rope in an ancient …
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