The embassy's chief of security was shot dead, and two other staff were wounded. The attack comes amid Azerbaijan's increasingly strained relations with Iran and blossoming friendship with Iran's archrival Israel.
The country’s revenues from oil and gas, on which its economy depends, grew significantly in 2022, a benefit of the sanctions on fellow hydrocarbon producer Russia.
The blockade appears to be part of an increasing pressure campaign on the road and the Armenians who depend on it, and the protesters appeared to be ready to stay.
Some Azerbaijanis cheered their representatives standing up to a Russian presence they consider pro-Armenian. Others, though, pointed out the hypocrisy.
The seashore at Buzovna, once one of Azerbaijan’s iconic landscapes, had been closed to regular people as beachfront property owners fenced it off. Now locals have managed to get some beach back.
Tens of thousands gathered the day before the leaders of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Russia were meeting to work on a peace agreement that many Armenians oppose.
Despite being strategic partners with Israel, Azerbaijan doesn’t have an embassy in the country. Have the geopolitical conditions changed enough to make that possible?
The U.S. embassy’s decision not to visit Shusha followed soon after its reappointment of a representative to the Minsk Group, a body Baku has declared “dead.”
In 2020, Azerbaijan won back many of the water resources it had lost to Armenians in the 1990s. But the biggest source still eludes it, and farmers are still struggling.