Russia’s president is said to have blamed birds or a Ukrainian drone for a Dec. 25 crash of an Azerbaijani plane. Azerbaijan says Russian air defenses were at fault.

Azerbaijani leader Ilham Aliyev appeared to ratchet up tension in the South Caucasus by unexpectedly reviving a demand for extraterritorial rights on a land corridor connecting Azerbaijan proper to its Nakhchivan exclave across Armenian territory.

( MENAFN - AzerNews) In a joint press conference with Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze, President Ilham Aliyev touched on the connectivity and the Middle Corridor project.

President Ilham Aliyev said the preliminary investigation into the crash had confirmed that the plane was hit by Russian air defenses, according to Azerbaijan’s state news agency (AZERTAC). The airspace above Grozny, the capital city of the southern ...

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Human Rights advocate Luis Moreno Ocampo published a new blog post comparing political tactics being used by President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan to those used by the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.

BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 15. The President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has signed a law amending the Urban Planning and Construction Code, Trend reports.

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has signed a law approving amendments to the law "About bases of finance of municipalities", Trend reports. Under the amendment, the revenues and expenditures of the municipal budget will be reflected in the information system of the authority responsible for administrative control over the activities of municipal entities.

( MENAFN - AzerNews) On January 18, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received Hakan Fidan, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Türkiye, Azernews reports. Hakan Fidan conveyed greetings from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to the Azerbaijani President.

The Western Azerbaijan Community has expressed gratitude to the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, for his support for the peaceful, safe, and dignified return of Western Azerbaijanis to their ancestral lands,

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Jan. 7 called Armenia effectively a "fascist state," claiming that Baku might have no other choice but to "destroy" its neighbor's so-called "fascist ideology." Azerbaijan and Armenia are bitter rivals,

BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 7. Azerbaijan's steps in recent years are being analyzed very thoroughly, very seriously, said President Ilham Aliyev during an interview with local television channels, Trend reports.