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Speaking at the Manama Dialogue in Bahrain, hosted by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), U.S. Special Envoy for Syria Thomas Barrack announced that Syrian President and HTS leader Ahmed al-Sharaa would visit Washington. It will be the first time a Syrian head of state has visited Washington since the country’s independence in 1946….
On 28 October 2025, Topchubashov Center Deputy Director Murad Muradov participated in the 2nd South Caucasus Regional Dialogue conference organised by Links Europe in Tbilisi, Georgia. Murad chaired the panel dedicated to the changing geopolitics of the South Caucasus and spoke about the prospects for peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the context of the…
On October 24, Gulkhanim Mammadova, a researcher from the Topchubashov Center, took part in the panel titled “AI-Mediated Ontological Security: National Identities and Sustainable Peace in the South Caucasus.” During the panel, she presented her paper, “Ontological Security and the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict: Post-2020 Identity Crises and Paths to Peace.” The panel was held as part…
On October 22, Gulkhanim Mammadova from the Topchubashov Center participated in an OSCE panel on the effective inclusion of women in peace processes, held during the event “The Next Chapter: Building on 25 Years of Women, Peace and Security” at the Hofburg. During the discussion, she addressed the current challenges and opportunities in peacebuilding and…
On 21-22 October 2025, Topchubashov Center`s Director Rusif Huseynov visited Yerevan, Armenia as part of an Azerbaijani delegation participating in a roundtable discussion between experts from both countries. The discussion was organized as a joint initiative by representatives of civil society from Armenia and Azerbaijan, with the support of official structures from both countries During…
On 20 October 2025, Rusif Huseynov, Topchubashov Centers Director, met with Alexander Vinnikov, Head of the NATO Liaison Office in Georgia, and Arkadiusz Legieć, Political Officer at the same office. The meeting was facilitated by the ambassadors of Slovakia Elcin Gasymov and Sweden Tobias Lorentzson, who serve as NATO’s coordinators in Azerbaijan. During the discussion,…
The announcement made on 23 September 2025 regarding the purchase of Italian Petroli (IP) by Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR signifies more than merely a corporate deal. It illustrates the transformation of the Italian and European energy sectors. Two years after the rupture with Russian hydrocarbons, the continent’s energy map is redrawn through diversification, new…
On 14 October 2025, a delegation of Ludovika – UPS University of Public Service, Director General for International Affairs Liliana Śmiech and Senior Advisor David Biró visited Topchubashov Center, where they were hosted by Rusif Huseynov, the Center`s director, Gulkhanim Mammadova, Research Fellow, and Alberto Carrer, Research Intern. The meeting focused on exploring prospects for…
On 15 October 2025, representatives of the French Embassy in Azerbaijan, Guillaume Delenda, Senior Counselor, and Tifenn Poyroux, Political Counselor visited Topchubashov Center, where they were hosted by Rusif Huseynov, Director, and Murad Muradov, Deputy Director of the Center. The meeting focused on recent regional developments and the current state of Azerbaijan–France relations.
On 9 October Presidents Aliyev and Putin met at the CIS Summit in Tajikistan’s capital Dushanbe – for the first time since the tragedy of the Azerbaijani airplane last December that launched an unprecedented crisis in the relations between Baku and Moscow. At the meeting, President Putin apologised (although again, not without some ambiguity) for…
