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During the 1980s, Soviet rulers acknowledged that there is a strong necessity for the significant transformation of the system. The fundamental methodological approach manifested as making communism operate more efficiently to better meet the needs and wants of Soviet citizens by adopting some elements of economic liberalism. In 1985, as …

“On July 14, 2020, Azizov Aziz Izzet, born in 1944, a resident of Aghdam village of Tovuz region, was killed as a result of artillery fire opened by the Armenian armed forces in the direction of Tovuz region of Azerbaijan. The purposeful targeting of the Azerbaijani civilian population and shooting …

“On the night of July 13-14 and in the morning, fierce fighting continued on the site of the Tovuz region of the Azerbaijan-Armenia state border,” Azerbaijan`s Ministry of Defense told AZERTAC. “As a result of retaliatory measures taken by our units during the fighting in the direction of the Tovuz region, …

The units of Armenian armed forces have shelled Azerbaijan’s defence positions in the direction of Nakhchivan’s Shahbuz and Julfa regions on the night leading to July 13, the Defence Ministry reported today. The shelling lasted from 22:45 on July 12 to 00:40 on July 13, the ministry said. The adversary’s …

While discussing Armenia’s National Security Strategy at a meeting of the Security Council in Yerevan on July 10, the country’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan once again admitted the country’s aggressive policy, which directly threatens peace and security in the region, Trend reports referring to the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry. “Armenia is still a …

The Armenian Foreign Minister’s attempt to distort the format of the conflict is another indication of Yerevan’s unconstructive position, Tural Ganjaliyev, the head of the Azerbaijani community of the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, said on July 1. Touching upon the video conference held between Azerbaijani and Armenian foreign ministers on June …

President Ilham Aliyev has said that Armenia is illegally settling Armenians in Azerbaijan’s occupied Nagorno-Karabak region. Aliyev made the remarks during the Summit of the Eastern Partnership countries via video conference on June 18. Aliyev highlighted the fact that four UN Security Council resolutions call for the unconditional and complete …

The silence of the Council of Europe on the so-called “elections” in the occupied Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan reflects the true essence of this organization, its double standards, MP of Azerbaijan’s Parliament Emin Hajiyev told Trend. “The so-called “elections” held by the illegal regime in the occupied Azerbaijani territories were condemned …

Background of Hostilities The conflict dates back to February 1988, while both republics were part of the Soviet Union, when Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous oblast (NK) and in Armenia started mass rallies for the incorporation of this part of Azerbaijan into Armenia,[i] appealing to central authorities in Moscow to meet …

The South Caucasus is a diverse geopolitical region, which occupies a strategic point in the transport of Caspian oil and gas. However, the region is often challenged with unresolved conflicts and socio-political and economic problems brought about by the collapse of the former Soviet Union. Turkish relations with the South …