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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and rising geopolitical tensions across the globe highlight the need for alternative trade routes less reliant on transit through Russia. The Trans-Caspian International Transport Corridor (TITR), also known as the Middle Corridor, which connects China with the EU, passing through Central Asia and the South Caucasus, has gained renewed focus as…
The last time Azerbaijan summoned an Iranian diplomat to its foreign ministry was in April 2023, when Baku expelled 4 employees of the Iranian embassy due to Tehran’s provocative actions. Since then, bilateral relations have been put back on pragmatic rails. Only until December 29, when a Shia eulogist made a fervent speech against Azerbaijan…
In 2024, Armenia and Azerbaijan have made substantial progress toward resolving their decades-long conflict, even as critical hurdles remain unresolved. Negotiations are currently divided into three main tracks: the peace agreement, border demarcation and connectivity. Each track has seen varying levels of success. Peace agreement The first track focuses on peace agreement negotiations, which have been…
Abkhazia is facing a severe recession. Recent protests over October’s investment deal and the scandal of President Bzhaniya’s Russian estates coincided with a deepening energy crisis. These events are profoundly linked, showing once again Moscow’s leverage in the region. On October 30, Abkhazia and Russia’s Economic Ministers, Kristina Ozgan and Maxim Reshetnikov, signed a controversial…
The December 2024 edition of the IRMO Brief, authored by Gulkhanim Mammadova, deals with the 29th Conference of Parties under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29), held from 11 to 22 November 2024 in Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan. This year’s COP has tried to address the persistent challenges of global…
On 14 December, Eurasia Partnership Foundation, Azerbaijan and Topchubashov Center presented their collection of articles on Bosnia and Herzegovina. The publication is part of the Study Trips initiative of the Eurasia Partnership Foundation, Azerbaijan: during the study trip, a cohort of Azerbaijani students visited Bosnia and Herzegovina this fall. Experts of Topchubashov Center, the partner…
The rapid downfall of Bashar Assad’s regime in Syria has fundamentally perturbed the geopolitics of the Middle East, and some of its long-term effects will only start to be felt after a while. However, one of its most stark outcomes has been the utter crumbling of the Russian mission in this country which back in…
It is worse than a crime, it is a mistake. – (usually attributed to) Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord The crash of an Azerbaijani Embraer E190AR airplane on the morning of 25 December near Aktau, almost an hour after it had failed to land in Grozny and got damaged, has sent shock waves- first in Azerbaijan…
On 2-6 December 2024, Topchubashov Center`s Director Rusif Huseynov partook in the EU Visitors Program (EUVP) and held a series of meetings with bureaucrats dealing with South Caucasus and particularly Azerbaijan in the EU agencies, such as European Parliament and European Commission. Besides the EUVP agenda, Rusif Huseynov attended NATO HQ and several Brussels-based think…
On 5 December, Topchubashov Center’s Deputy Director Murad Muradov met with the Director of the Center for International Area Studies at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (Korea), Dr. Jun Young Kand. They presented each other the recently signed Memorandum of Understanding between the two organisations and discussed academic exchange, joint research projects and events, as…
