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Amid rising local and international demand, Georgia seeks to start new energy projects and revive old ones. But will they survive the usual controversies?

Azerbaijan has long opposed reestablishing air transit to and from Karabakh, though, and argues that it is Armenians who are refusing its offers to allow traffic on the road to resume.

In the wake of the reported diplomatic breakdown, accounts have varied over how much credit – or blame – to assign to Azerbaijan, Russia, and France.

With Azerbaijani demonstrators settling in for the long haul on the Lachin Corridor, Armenia is questioning whether Moscow is willing or able to end the standoff.

Bakhtiyar Hajiyev, one of the government’s most vocal critics, was charged with hooliganism in a case many believe is connected to his activism. Now he’s on a hunger strike.

Vasif Talibov, “khan” of “Azerbaijan’s North Korea,” has long been accused of exercising his totalitarian impulses.

Azerbaijanis promise that Armenians can pass along the road. But for Armenians, the conditions are politically unacceptable.

A vaunted meeting to discuss shipping Turkmen gas to Turkey and Europe ended without a breakthrough. But Uzbekistan is buying. This and more in our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

The closure of the Lachin Corridor a week ago has left the region struggling to secure enough food, medicine and fuel.

The territory has imposed price controls and rationing, and Azerbaijan has demanded that it be allowed to set up border and customs checkpoints on the road connecting it to Armenia.

The ongoing blockade has exposed the vagueness of the peacekeepers’ mandate, an uncertainty Baku is seeking to exploit.

The region is newly strategic as Russia’s war shifts attention to the so-called Middle Corridor.

Residents of the territory reported disrupted deliveries of food and heating gas, and hundreds blocked from returning home, as the numbers of Azerbaijani protesters on the scene grew.

Turkmenistan reveals its closest partners as it prepares to host a gas-focused summit with Azerbaijan and Turkey. Plus, with the New Year approaching, it is time for bread and circus. Our weekly briefing.

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.

Baku is doubling down on claims Armenia is transporting weapons along the only road in or out of the region; Yerevan says the Azerbaijanis are faking the evidence.

Some Azerbaijanis cheered their representatives standing up to a Russian presence they consider pro-Armenian. Others, though, pointed out the hypocrisy.

The drills included a crossing of the river that forms the Azerbaijan-Iran border, mirroring the threat that Iran’s armed forces had made weeks earlier.

They face obstacles, though, including globalization and an education system that gives little time to minority languages.

The Middle Corridor – an alternative route from China to Europe that skirts Russia – has seen a massive increase in freight this year.

A dispute ostensibly over gold mining and military hardware saw cars held up on the Lachin Corridor for several hours as Russian peacekeepers held talks with both sides

Emboldened by Russia’s setbacks in Ukraine, Baku is trying to reduce Moscow’s role in the peace process.

The country is already home to a substantial cult of personality to the former president. Now it’s going to get bigger.

An uptick in violence and rising political tensions are calling attention to the fate of the sole road in and out of the breakaway territory.

Azerbaijani military advances have created facts on the ground, as the two countries work on an agreement demarcating their shared border.