All articles - Azerbaijan

Baku's chequebook diplomacy

Having already engaged Democrat lobbyist Tony Podesta’s Podesta Group, Azerbaijan [...]

Ilham Aliyev

Ilham Aliyev, Azerbaijan's president, was the only head of state [...]

Richard Morningstar

Richard Morningstar,Hillary Clinton's special envoy for Eurasian energy, is to [...]

Pascal Meunier

Pascal Meunier is stepping down as director of institutional affairs [...]

Gabala, high stakes talks

Negotiations between the Russian and Azeri authorities on a new [...]

Over-armed Caucasus

French President Nicolas Sarkozy carefully avoided discussions about arms sales during his flying visit to the Southern Causcasus on October [...]

Nagorno-Karabakh: Tehran weighs in

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has invited himself into the negotiations that are underway concerning Nagorno-Karabakh, the Armenian separatist enclave within Azerbaijan's frontiers [...]

Baku's DC lobbyists

U.S. corruption cases stemming from the failed 1997 privatisation attempt [...]

Buried Hill, big stakes for small company

Total is poised to take control of the Caspian Sea's Serdar mega-field. However, complicating the deal, the oil field is in territorial waters that both Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan claim to own.

BP AMOCO
President's Son an Oil & Caviar King

Azerbaijan's state-owned oil company SOCAR will shortly be privatized. The financial operation looks set to increase the influence of BP, which has skillfully allied itself with Ilham Aliyev, all-powerful vice chairman of SOCAR.

ABDULLA ALLAKHVERDIEV

Azeri President Abulfaz Elcibey recently replaced contested interior minister Iskender Gamidov by General Abdulla Allakhverdiev, considered a strong supporter of [...]

ISRAEL TRAINING AND ARMING MUSLIMS?

According to a report datelined Baku and published by the [...]

BACKING FROM THE GREY WOLVES

Little notice was taken of a Turkish delegation that accompanied [...]

French observers who accompanied French Humanitarian Affairs Minister Bernard Kouchner [...]