Daily Times

Friday, December 23, 2011 DURE NAJAF ZAIDI

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev is a young, dynamic, highly educated person with pragmatic approach to tackling issues and knowledgeable about the modern world, politics and...

Bloomberg Businessweek Friday, December 23, 2011, ZULFUGAR AGAYEV

(Updates with oil revenue in first paragraph, energy production in fourth, debt in fifth, outlook in sixth.) Dec. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Azerbaijan’s sovereign-credit rating was raised to...

Today's Zaman Sunday, 11 December 2011 ELNUR ASLANOV

Azerbaijan's Center for Strategic Studies (SAM), a leading think tank based in Baku, has officially launched a new international magazine believed to be one of the most sophisticated semi-academic...

Today's Zaman

Wednesday, 26 October 2011

One of the most pressing issues facing the world today is climate change and its environmental impact. The earth is warming up, and now not only is there overwhelming scientific consensus that is this happening,...

The Washington Post

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

UNITED NATIONS — Azerbaijan received the two-thirds support of U.N. member states needed for a Security Council seat Monday after its lead competitor Slovenia dropped out. Azerbaijan and Slovenia went...

Turkish weekly Friday, 21 October 2011 VUSAL GASIMLI

Introduction During the years from 2000 to 2010, Azerbaijan achieved the boosting of its export volume by more than fifteen times. Although the lion’s share of export volume belongs to...

Turkish Weekly

Friday, 21 October 2011 RAMIZ RAHMANOV & ZAUR VALIYEV

Why Do We Need Ratings? The need for ratings can be easily explained. On the one hand, ratings create an image of a country and on the other hand, they are necessary for purely...

Today's Zaman Thursday, October 20, 2011 FAIG BAĞIROV

The year 1991 was a milestone for the world in general and for our region in particular. The reason we call it a milestone is the fact that 1991 was important for international relations.

The...

Arab News

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

It was almost three in the afternoon when the captain of my Fly Dubai flight FZ-705 announced the beginning of our flight’s descent. I peeked from my window just to see a vastness of blue peppered with oil rigs and...

Daily Times

Monday, October 17, 2011

Back in the 1990s, it was hard to believe that Azerbaijan would become what it is today. Since the country gained independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union, it has faced a lot of adversity such as the...

Today's Zaman

Thursday, October 13, 2011 MUSA KASIMLI

There remained very serious problems facing this new leadership on the domestic front. Here is how we can summarize some of the problems waiting to be dealt with: keeping the country from...

Today's Zaman

Wednesday, October 12, 2011 MUSA KASIMLI

Azerbaijan is completing its 20th year since gaining independence. In order to understand the true tenor of the years that have passed since the country’s independence, which came on Oct.18, 1991,...