'Caspian Five' to gather for a meeting in Baku
The next meeting of the working group on defining the legal status of Caspian Sea is scheduled for late January and it will be held in Baku, Azerbaijan’s Deputy Foreign Minister Khalaf Khalafov said. …
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Iran gives 7 oil projects to Russia
Iran plans to assign development of seven oil fields to Russian companies, Iran’s Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said, explaining that Russian companies would develop and increase the recovery rate of the fields. …
Nazarbayev officially launches Kashagan field
Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbaev officially launched the largest oil and gas field in Kazakhstan - Kashagan, with reserves estimated at 35 billion barrels of oil. "I'm here today to announce the launch …
Caucasian stability and cooperation platform can be implemented
Experts drew attention to the interdependence of Putin's meetings with Aliyev, Rouhani, Erdogan and Sargsyan
Triumvirate of presidents in Baku: results and prospects
Yesterday, the first trilateral meeting of Presidents of Russian, Azerbaijani and Iranian presidents, Vladimir Putin, Ilham Aliyev and Hassan Rouhani, was held in Baku. The sides signed a joint …
Caspian Littoral States' Foreign Ministers meet in Astana
The meeting of foreign ministers of the ‘Caspian Five’ (Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkmenistan) focused on coordinating the Convention on the Caspian Sea legal status is being held in Astana today. The Caspian …
Kazakh President takes birthday congratulations
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev celebrates his 76th birthday today. Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated his Kazakh counterpart on his birthday and discussed with him the schedule …
Iran starts second round of parliamentary elections
The second round of the parliamentary elections started today in Iran. The citizens of the Islamic Republic started voting to elect 68 out of 290 members of the Parliament, which failed to get 25% of votes cast in the first round of the …
Naryshkin: Russia and Iran have similar stance on international issues
The chairman of the Islamic Consultative Assembly of Iran, Ali Larijani, has arrived in Moscow. The Chairman of the Russian State Duma Sergey Naryshkin said during a meeting with Ali Larijani that Russia and …
Nazarbayev in Tehran: political visit after economic breakthrough
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev has arrived on an official visit to Tehran, the press service of the Kazakh President said. "During the visit, he will meet with the President Hassan Rouhani, …
Russia, Azerbaijan and Iran start working on transport corridor project
Russia, Azerbaijan and Iran have agreed to start discussing in detail the implementation of the project of the transport corridor along the western Caspian coast, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said …
Investment cooperation with Russia is of particular interest, Ilgar Velizade believes
A researcher of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the RAS Stanislav Pritchin and the head of the Political Scientists Club ‘South Caucasus’ Ilgar Velizade spoke about the situation in which the economies of Azerbaijan and …
Baku looks for sources offsetting lowered contribution of oil to GDP
Ilgar Velizade: ‘’Investment cooperation with Russia is of special interest"
Counting of votes at elections in Iran completed
The counting of votes at the elections to the Majlis and the Assembly of Experts finished in Iran. According to Interior Ministry of Iran, reformers received at least 85 seats in the Majlis, moderates received 73 seats, conservatives …
Iran votes in favor of reformers
According to the preliminary results of the elections to the Majlis and the Assembly of Experts, the Conservatives received 106 seats in the 290-seat parliament. But it is noted, that they can lose the majority due to the large success …
Sergey Lavrov meets with Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has met with Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov in Ashgabat. He conveyed the warmest wishes on behalf of Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to him, Russia hopes to develop and strengthen international and bilateral cooperation with Turkmenistan. "We are interested in coordinating our actions on issues related to the prevention of terrorist threats, drug trafficking and manifestations of organized crime," Lavrov said.
Iran without sanctions: Russia intensifies cooperation
Russia welcomes the lifting of economic sanctions against Iran and hopes to intensify bilateral cooperation in various spheres of economy, international legal experts told Vestnik Kavkaza, commenting on Iran's implementation of the Joint …
Lifting of sanctions to pave Iran’s path to SCO
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will consider Iran's membership request right after the UN Security Council lifts sanctions from Iran, the SCO Secretary General, Dmitry Mezentsev, said in an …
Baku will become transport bridge between North and South
Azerbaijan is to accelerate the construction of the section of the international North-South transport corridor. The corresponding decree was signed by President Ilham Aliyev. "The wide …
Will Iranian energy resources be carried by Azerbaijani pipelines?
This weekend Tehran hosted a major international conference on the conclusion of new oil and gas contracts between Iran and foreign companies. The process of lifting the sanctions against Iran will begin in the next year, and the largest oil and …
