Many Armenians fear that the government is preparing to cede control over Nagorno-Karabakh and are demanding that their prime minister renounce such a concession.
If Armenians stay in Karabakh under the Azerbaijani flag, it would represent an exception to the otherwise zero-sum game of territorial control in the region.
One Armenian-populated village was evacuated and taken – at least temporarily – by Azerbaijani forces, as Russia criticized Baku for breaching the ceasefire.
Labor migrants are attempting to leave Russia as their jobs have been hit by sanctions. But they can’t cross the border into Azerbaijan, which has remained closed since the beginning of the pandemic.
While the government has maintained a deeply cautious stance, coverage of the war in the state-controlled media has shown a clear, albeit implicit, pro-Ukraine stance.
A new government investigation has brought arrests and official recognition of many more victims. But it remains unclear why the Tartar case, which alleged widespread spying in the military, was launched in the first place.
President Ilham Aliyev's visit to Moscow days ahead of Russia's invasion of Ukraine appears to have resulted in an agreement not to compete with one another on gas exports.
The two lawmakers brought up the contentious history of the city’s most famous Islamic monument, and Azerbaijan’s president suggested they were in physical danger.
To many in Azerbaijan, it appeared that the new agreement was aimed at ensuring their country’s loyalty to Russia during the attack on Ukraine. Officials said the timing was just a coincidence.
Every country in the region has its own relationship with self-proclaimed breakaway republics, forcing them to reckon in their own ways with Russia’s moves in Ukraine.
Baku already held the record in 2010, before losing it to Tajikistan less than a year later. Now it is aiming to again one-up the current record holder in Saudi Arabia.