The oligarch Vagit Alekperov is Russia's official richest man after being behind the country's biggest oil company.

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.

At a meeting with his Armenian counterpart in Moscow, Lavrov said the Kremlin was ready to assist in the normalisation of Armenia-Azerbaijan relations.View on euronews

BAKU. Jan 22 (Interfax) - Trade turnover between Azerbaijan and Russia rose 10.1% year-on-year to nearly $4.8 billion in 2024, Azerbaijan's State Customs Committee (SCC) told Interfax.

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced plans on Friday to build a gas pipeline to Iran aimed at eventually transporting up to 55 billion cubic metres (bcm) per year to the West Asian country.

The Kremlin has declined to state that Russian forces were responsible for downing the Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 on December 25, 2024. Russia acknowledged that its air defense systems were active at the time of the incident to shoot down Ukrainian drones but has stopped short of saying it brought down the aircraft.

Europe warns its airlines to stay away through next summer, as Ukraine turns skies of western Russia into a battlefield.

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. But some experts in Baku believe that the issue can be managed.

Three years after launching his “special military operation” in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin faces a looming choice. In public, he exudes optimism. He has pulled his country back from the abyss and,

"As much as President Trump is making America great again, it is time he and the [Congressional Armenian] Caucus make Armenia great again, writes Marshall Moushigian for Sun View.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Azerbaijani leader Ilham Aliyev and called for increased pressure on Russia over the crash of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane, urging the aggressor to "tell the truth" and disclose the details of the crime.

On January 14, 2025, as U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration breathed its last days, Armenia and the United States signed a Strategic Partnership Charter in Washington, D.C. The document was signed by Armenia’s Foreign Minister