President Shavkat Mirziyoyev: Azerbaijan serves as a strategic bridge linking Central Asia and Europe

Baku, August 18, AZERTAC “In recent years, Uzbek-Azerbaijani relations have been developing dynamically in a spirit of mutual trust and support. A Treaty on Allied Relations has been signed, and the Supreme Interstate Council is actively...

ChemEng Culture: Connecting with Industry

Sam Baker reviews three short films that premiered at Sheffield DocFest in June, each documenting the point where emotion, art and industry meet SHEFFIELD trades well on its industrial heritage. Affectionately nicknamed the “steel city”, its array...

Britain's Energy Footprint in the Caspian: Profit Over Ecology

Nine months after Azerbaijan hosted COP29 in Baku with pledges of green transition and sustainability, the Caspian Sea remains an arena of unchecked industrial exploitation. British corporations, long positioning themselves as champions of...

Azerbaijan Expands Agrotourism In Its Sheki-Zagatala Region

(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, August 18.​ Azerbaijan's Sheki-Zagatala region is now home to 18 active agrotourism enterprises, the State Tourism Agency said in a statement to Trend . The agency noted that agrotourism in Azerbaijan...

Gobustan And The Caspian: Tracing Humanity’s First Footsteps In Azerbaijan

Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan is a pleasant and vibrant city. It has ultra-modern buildings along the Caspian shoreline interspersed with elegant French-style structures from the days when it a part of the Tsar of Russia’s Empire. Baku’s...

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Azerbaijan's oil production saw a downtick in January-April 2025, averaging 582,000 barrels per day, down from 585,000 b/d in 2024 and 607,000 b/d in 2023. Crude production — which has been generally declining over the past decade due to maturing...

Zelenskyy: Russia deliberately attacked energy facility owned by Azerbaijani company in Odesa

“Amid tensions with Russia, Azerbaijan should step up support for Ukraine”, experts in Baku say

Azerbaijan support for Ukraine Russian strikes on Ukraine’s Odesa region hit an oil depot owned by SOCAR and a compressor station used to transport Azerbaijani gas into the country. Political analyst Shahin Jafarli described the attacks as both a...

Azerbaijan surpasses self-employment targets through World Bank partnership

More than 24 thousand people in Azerbaijan have successfully established their own small businesses under the "Employment Support Project," implemented by the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Population with financial support from...

Azeri SOCAR Depot in Odesa Completely Destroyed After Russian Strike

Russia has again targeted energy infrastructure in southern Ukraine, destroying an oil depot operated by Azerbaijan’s state-owned energy company SOCAR. The strike marks the second attack on the facility in less than a month. The attack set fire to...

Kremlin tests Baku’s resolve with energy strikes, blurring line between geopolitics & war strategy

The Russian military carried out another wave of strikes against Ukraine on August 17. According to the Ukrainian Air Force, the attacks targeted infrastructure in Odesa, including a terminal of the “Nova Pochta” company and a SOCAR gas station,...

Azerbaijan Warns of Escalation After Repeated Attacks on Its Energy Assets in Ukraine

Azerbaijan Warns of Escalation After Repeated Attacks on Its Energy Assets in Ukraine A massive Russian drone strike destroyed a SOCAR oil depot near Odesa, sparking a fire that burned all night and raising tensions between Ukraine, Azerbaijan,...

Azerbaijan allocates over ₼1.2 bln to agriculture sector in last year

Azerbaijan allocates over ₼1.2 bln to agriculture sector in last year 18 August 2025 14:15 (UTC+04:00) In 2024, Azerbaijan allocated 1.2 billion manats for the implementation of 27 agricultural initiatives across 7 programs, carried out by 6...

Azerbaijan's Surakhani Ship-Museum Project Shortlisted For Int'l ICOM Award

(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, August 18.​ The Surakhani project, a tanker-turned-museum with the“Caspian Heritage” initiative, has been included in the preliminary list of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) Award for...

Azerbaijan's January-July oil exports via BTC pipeline down 5.9% y/y amid contamination

BAKU - Azerbaijan's oil exports via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, fell to 16.2 million metric tons in the January-July period, a decline of 5.9% from a year earlier, Azerbaijani data showed, as the route was marred by tainted oil. The BTC...

Iran’s president visits Armenia for talks on US-backed Azerbaijan corridor 

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian is visiting Armenia for talks on a planned corridor linking Azerbaijan near the border with his country, days after Iran said it would block the project included in a United States-brokered peace accord that...

Azerbaijan reveals budget funds allocated for climate spending in 2024

If we look at the funds allocated under 'Environmental Protection' in the 2024 state budget, climate change-related expenditures amounted to 339.7 million manats, APA-Economics reports citing the Ministry of Finance. 87.4% of this amount, i.e.,...

World cinematographers to convene in Baku

Baku, August 18, AZERTAC Azerbaijan will host the Baku Cinema Breeze International Film Festival as part of the 2025 Baku Creative Week from October 6 to 12. The event will be supported by Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Culture and the country’s Cinema...

Armenia and Azerbaijan Commit to Ending Decades of Hostility

On Friday, 8th August 2025, Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan met with President Trump at the White House to sign a seven-point joint declaration and to initiate the Agreement on Peace and...

Ukraine in talks with Azerbaijan: Kyiv

Ukraine is negotiating a deal with Azerbaijan to import gas from the South Caucasus country this year, Kyiv's energy minister said on Monday. "We are currently in talks. Azerbaijan is interested in this," Svitlana Hrynchuk told Ukrainian outlet...