US Strengthens Central Asia’s Cybersecurity: A New Dimension of C5+1 Cooperation
The United States’ allocation of US$5 million to support cybersecurity in Central Asia highlights the growing strategic importance of digital security, artificial intelligence and technological infrastructure in Washington’s engagement with the region. The United States has allocated US$5 million to
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Exclusive Interview with Mr. Ahmet Akyol, General Manager of ASELSAN for Azerbaijan Today magazine.
Questions prepared by Rovshan Pashazadeh A.T.: ASELSAN currently exports defense industry products to 97 countries worldwide. In your view, what are the main factors behind the growing global interest in and demand for Türkiye’s defense industry products? Ahmet Akyol: I
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An interview with Dr. Mehmet Akif Nacar, General Manager of HAVELSAN for Azerbaijan Today magazine.
Questions prepared by Ali Askerli A.T.: From its early years to today, what are the key turning points that transformed HAVELSAN into a major defense-technology company? What capabilities did you have then that laid the foundation for today’s success? Mehmet
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Strategic Transformation of Russia Along the South Caucasus Axis and Its Implications for the Turkic World
By Yucel KarauzIntroduction and Strategic Framework Mainstream Western strategic analyses arguing that Russia is “weakening, declining, or hurtling toward inevitable collapse” are incomplete and fail to align with ground realities. Moscow continues to project global and regional influence far beyond
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Ilham Aliyev Attends the Inauguration of the Gobustan Solar Power Plant
President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev attended the inauguration of the 100 MW Gobustan Solar Power Plant in Baku’s Garadagh District on 16 September. Minister of Energy Parviz Shahbazov, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to Azerbaijan
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Bank Respublika and AccessBank Shareholders Approve Landmark Transaction
The shareholders of Bank Respublika and AccessBank have approved the principal terms of a strategic transaction under which Bank Respublika will acquire 100 per cent of AccessBank’s shares. The transaction is expected to be completed by November 2026. As part
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The Global Cost of Wars: From Ukraine to Hormuz — Energy, Inflation and the Food Security Crisis
By İsmail Cingoz, International Politics Expert Twenty-first-century wars no longer devastate only the countries fighting on the battlefield. The Russia–Ukraine War, the intensifying U.S.–Iran conflict in 2026, and geopolitical tensions stretching from the Black Sea to the Red Sea and
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Europe in the Shadow of Glasnost and Perestroika
By Dr. Carsten Sander Christensen From Gorbachev’s opening of the Soviet system to today’s European dilemmas over Ukraine Few political reforms of the twentieth century had consequences as far beyond their original purpose as Mikhail Gorbachev’s ‘glasnost’ and ‘perestroika’. Introduced
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Four and a Half Years of Full-Scale War
By Oleksandr Fediienko, Head of the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Government Communications, and Cryptographic Information Protection of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence. Four and a half years of full-scale war have changed not only
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“Eternal Friendship” — Baku and Tashkent Are Shaping a New Geopolitical Axis in Eurasia
By Mushvig Mammadli is a Member of the Milli Majlis (National Assembly) . To view President Ilham Aliyev’s state visit to Uzbekistan merely as another stage in the relations between two brotherly nations would significantly underestimate its geopolitical scope. In
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