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.
Kyiv has long taken a pro-Azerbaijan position vis-a-vis the conflict with Armenia. Now officials say that Armenia and Russia are using the blockade to try to steal attention from Ukraine.
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.
As Georgia sees a surge in demand for cargo transit amid the Ukraine war, the government hopes to resume construction of a controversial deep sea port.
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.
Nearly 10,000 Russian businesses have been registered in Georgia since the beginning of the war in Ukraine. Many of them are in places you wouldn’t expect.