Russia’s president is said to have blamed birds or a Ukrainian drone for a Dec. 25 crash of an Azerbaijani plane. Azerbaijan says Russian air defenses were at fault.

At a meeting with his Armenian counterpart in Moscow, Lavrov said the Kremlin was ready to assist in the normalisation of Armenia-Azerbaijan relations.View on euronews

The oligarch Vagit Alekperov is Russia's official richest man after being behind the country's biggest oil company.

BAKU. Jan 22 (Interfax) - Trade turnover between Azerbaijan and Russia rose 10.1% year-on-year to nearly $4.8 billion in 2024, Azerbaijan's State Customs Committee (SCC) told Interfax.

Azerbaijani leader Ilham Aliyev appeared to ratchet up tension in the South Caucasus by unexpectedly reviving a demand for extraterritorial rights on a land corridor connecting Azerbaijan proper to its Nakhchivan exclave across Armenian territory. But some experts in Baku believe that the issue can be managed.

Azerbaijan and Iran signed key agreements to develop transport and trade, facilitating the development of the North-South transport corridor, she said.

A billionaire former banker and 15 other ex-officials in the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region which Azerbaijan retook in 2023 went on trial on Friday in Baku in closed-door proceedings.

In its story of an Armenian refugee family, a new film emphasizes the church’s role in caring for the displaced.

An international team of experts from Russia, Azerbaijan, ICAO officials, and Brazil continues looking into the accident, Qanat Bozumbayev said

Though it addresses a timely subject matter, director Mark Freiburger’s inspirational feature suffers from stilted performances and didactic writing.

Prior to last year’s US presidential election, Azerbaijani leader Ilham Aliyev openly rooted for Donald Trump’s return to the White House. Aliyev may have got what he wanted, but that still likely won’t be enough to ease rancorous US-Azerbaijani diplomatic relations anytime soon.

China is responding to Trump's energy-centric executive actions with a global diplomatic blitz. China courts the Middle East without push back from Washington.