"Tenger Era"

Negotiations between Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov and Russia’s Sergey Lavrov opened at Russia’s Foreign Ministry reception house on Friday, marking the latest milestone in a dramatic thaw between Baku and Moscow after years of bitter friction. Far from a routine bilateral meeting, the closed-door talks carry sweeping implications for stalled Armenia-Azerbaijan peace talks, spiralling Iran-US tensions, and Russia’s fragile foothold across the South Caucasus.

On July 15 local time, the third foreign minister-level meeting of the 3+3 Regional Cooperation Platform for the South Caucasus concluded successfully in Istanbul, Turkey. Foreign ministers of the five participating countries reviewed, signed and officially issued the joint declaration of this meeting, establishing a unified action framework for multilateral cooperation and lasting peace in the South Caucasus region. Hosted by Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, the meeting

Kazakhstan’s government has moved decisively to shore up its flagship metallurgical industry, ordering domestic smelters to run at full capacity while locking in new mineral supply lines stretching east to Kyrgyzstan and south across Afghanistan, official cabinet minutes reveal. Prime Minister Olzhas Bektenov issued binding instructions this week mandating 100% utilisation of all national metal processing facilities, a direct response to a sharp slowdown that saw metallurgica