Day: February 20, 2024

Reuters:  A U.S. threat to hit financial firms doing business with Russia with sanctions has chilled Turkish-Russian trade, disrupting or slowing some payments for both imported oil and Turkish exports, according to seven sources familiar with the matter.

The U.S. executive order in December did not explicitly target energy…

AP:  The Taliban set unacceptable conditions for attending a U.N.-sponsored meeting about Afghanistan, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Monday.

Taliban demands included the exclusion of Afghan civil society members from the talks in Doha, Qatar, and treatment that amounted to official recognition of the Taliban as the country’s legitimate…

In the course of operative-search measures, employees of Nasimi district police department of Baku detained persons involved in illegal trafficking of drugs and weapons, the Interior Ministry reports.

Note that 8 cartridges and a Makarov pistol were seized from previously convicted Baku resident Kamran Abuzarov, who was detained on 19…

US Ambassador Mark Libby and British Ambassador to Azerbaijan Fergus Auld laid flowers on a spontaneous monument at the memorial to the victim of Stalinist repression, playwright Huseyn Javid.

The US Ambassador expressed his condolences to the family of the deceased oppositionist in the Embassy’s Facebook account: “I express my…

In the heart of Baku’s historic Kubinka district, where cobblestone streets wind between centuries-old buildings, a storm is brewing. Residents, deeply rooted in their ancestral homes, have taken to the streets, united in their frustration over the relentless demolition of their cherished neighborhood.

The crux of the issue lies in…