Category: Azerbaijan
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Turkiye Attempts To Influence Azerbaijan’s Relations with Israel, early May, 2025
This post contains two articles concerning the anticipated visit in early May to Baku by Israel’s Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu. The first article, written by A. Qafarli, was carried on the internet news site, modern.az, on May 2, 2025, in connection with Netanyahu’s expected arrival on May 7. Although that trip did not materialize –…
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Former Russian President, Now Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman, Dmitri Medvedev, Faults Current U.S. President for Deaths Resulting from Ukraine’s Use of ATACMS To Launch Attacks “Deep into the Territory of Russia,” Late November 2024
During the week of November 19-26, 2024, using his favorite platform, Telegram, as well as making an appearance on Al Arabia TV, former President of Russia and current deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia, Dmitri Medvedev, addressed the right of Russia to respond with nuclear weapons to a missile attack on Russia by…
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Greece – A Southern Europe Energy Hub
This post contains an abbreviated chronology of the development of the ‘Vertical Corridor,’ a means of supplying natural gas to the countries of Central and East Europe that have been impacted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. This energy delivery route is being made possible in large part thanks to the efforts made by Greece to…
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Armenia and Azerbaijan: Baerbock Calls for New Negotiations
German news agency, ZDF, using as its sources the German news agency, dpa, and the French news agency, AFP, published an article on its internet site on November 3, 2023, concerning the invitation by German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (of the Alliance 90/Green Party) to Armenia and Azerbaijan to renewed negotiations under her mediation to…
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Armenia Seeks Rapprochement with Azerbaijan, Agrees to Military Cooperation with Greece, late-February, early March 2024
Armenia, a majority of whose population belongs to the Armenian Apostolic (Orthodox) Church, finds itself the recipient of an unenviable piece of real estate that is squeezed between the two overwhelmingly Muslim nations, Turkey and Azerbaijan. This tension led to the 1915 genocide against the Armenians by the Turks of the Ottoman Empire, and more…
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Türkiye will speak against Israel at the UN International Court, mid-February 2024 Report
The Russian internet news site mk-turkey.ru, which reports Turkish news in the Russian language, on February 11, 2024, issued an article taken from the Turkish news source, Haber Global [World News], which is based in Türkiye but owned by Azeri businessmen Elnur Abdullayev and Mammad Gulmammadov. The channel’s slogan is “The Free [as in ‘Independent’]…
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Ukrainian, Russian Newspapers Differ in Accounts of November Ramstein Contact Group Session on Aid to Ukraine; Bulgarian Newspaper Reports Türkiye’s Disregard for Russia Sanctions, November 2023
In her November 22, 2023, article for the weekly Ukrainian Russian-language socio-political journal and daily news internet resource, Fokus, Darya Denisova stressed U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s provocative challenge to the West to continue its “unwavering” financial aid to Ukraine to ensure that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s revanchist schemes never come to fruition. At…
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Organization of Turkic States Looks To Strengthen Mutual Security; Azerbaijan Discusses Military Cooperation with Pakistan, early/mid-November 2023
The internet site of the Azerbaijan newspaper, Yeni (New) Azərbaycan, in its November 3, 2023, Azerbaijani language edition, reported that at the 10th Organization of Turkic States (TDT) summit of heads-of-state recently held in Astana, Kazakhstan, the President of Kazakhstan, Kasım-Jomart Tokayev, called for member states [Translator note: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Türkiye, and Uzbekistan] to…
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Russian Thinktank Claims Ukraine Takeover First Move To Reintegrate Former USSR, Realign Geopolitical Spheres of Influence, late-March 2022
Although it was my endeavor to summarize as succinctly as possible, because of the length of the original piece, this post is somewhat lengthy. Hopefully, the length will not overwhelm the reader, nor the information, underwhelm! In my opinion, this article offers an opportunity to peer “behind the veil” and view, virtually, the thought processes…
The Dragon is Slain 