As soon as the emotions calmed down following the mysterious explosions aboard the Norwegian and Japanese oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman, which the United States and its Western allies immediately and without any evidence blamed on Tehran, a ...
On June 28-29, government leaders representing 85 percent of the global economy convened in Osaka, Japan, for the 14th Group of Twenty (G20) summit. While most media attention focused on developments outside the meeting room, including a trade truce between ...
To buttress the country’s flagging economy, Moscow has counted on the Russian Federation being the primary transit route for Chinese goods being shipped to Europe. However, Beijing’s commitment to becoming the dominant player on the Northern Sea Route (The ...
Russia’s support for Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria is just the beginning of Moscow’s designs on the wider Middle East, Kathryn Wheelbarger, acting US assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs, warned on May 30. “Syria is a prime example ...
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov’s article dedicated tho the the Republic Day of Azerbaijan was published in the Nezavisimaya Gazeta newspaper. The minister recalled that the Republic of Azerbaijan restored state independence almost 30 years ago, which was proclaimed on May 28, 1918. ...
President Donald Trump withdrew from the nuclear deal with Iran a year ago. Since, tensions between the two countries have increased steadily, as the United States has dialed up pressure on Iran in the hopes of either bringing it back ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, May 14 By Matanat Nasibova – Trend: Armenia’s provocative statements in the UN, its use of procedural moments, attempts to change the structure and format of the negotiation process are different forms of the same policy, Head of the Expert ...
Russia surprised many last year when it used its internal canal system to shift military vessels from the Caspian Sea to the Sea of Azov in order to ramp up pressure on Ukraine (see EDM, May 31, 2018; November 27, ...
On April 11, 2019, London police arrested WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy. He was denied further asylum. Today, the fuss caused by the publication of thousands of classified documents in the early 2010s is almost forgotten, but ...
Baku, Azerbaijan, April 10 By Matanat Nasibova – Trend: An important condition for ensuring stability and security in the South Caucasus is the settlement of the longstanding Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the head of the Expert Council of the Baku Network, Ph.D. Elkhan Alasgarov ...