Day: February 24, 2026

🇦🇿🇬🇧🇷🇺 When London speaks in Moscow’s voice – Three questions for the British Ambassador to Azerbaijan

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In diplomacy, words matter. So do names. When a British legal body announced an inquiry into the alleged destruction of Armenian cultural heritage in “Nagorno-Karabakh”, the terminology alone was enough to trigger protest in Baku. Azerbaijan insists that no such administrative unit exists. Garabagh, it argues, is sovereign Azerbaijani territory, recognised as such by the United Kingdom and the wider international community. To frame an investigation under a name associated with a defunct separatist entity is, in this view, not a technical slip but a political statement.

The Agency for the Development of Small and Medium Business, Investment, and Export Promotion in Azerbaijan (hereinafter referred to as the agency) has been established under the Ministry of Economy of Azerbaijan, AzerNEWS reports.

Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev threatened on Tuesday that Moscow may be forced to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine and against “supplier countries that become complicit in a nuclear conflict with Russia”, AzerNEWS reports.

The British Embassy in Azerbaijan has stated that the United Kingdom is ready to expand cooperation with Azerbaijan in the water sector.

Foreign investments in the economy of Azerbaijan increased significantly at the start of 2026, according to the State Statistics Committee, AzerNEWS reports. In January 2026, a total of…