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A fuel assemblies plant heralding a new phase of nuclear cooperation between Nur-Sultan and Beijing has received its first shipment of low-enriched uranium from Russia,…
Iran and Azerbaijan have reportedly reached a landmark agreement in principle to cooperate on oil and gas issues. While details on the deal are still…
Tensions have again boiled over between Armenia and Azerbaijan, with multiple exchanges of fire in recent days and traffic restricted by Azerbaijani forces on two…
In mid-September, Azerbaijani border guards detained two Iranian truck drivers on the road connecting the southern Armenian cities of Goris and Kapan. The arrests spiraled…
Kazakhstan’s national grid operator has begun rationing electricity to the country’s biggest consumers, likely targeting cryptocurrency mining farms. Facing a sudden energy shortage, officials must…
China is the world’s biggest coal consumer. Neighboring Kazakhstan sits on some of the world’s biggest coal reserves. Yet they have never done much business…
As anyone in business knows, you don’t get to choose your customers. So Tajikistan is in a curious position: It is vehemently opposed to the…
Before last year, energy was one of the bright spots in Nagorno-Karabakh’s economy. The de facto authorities had built a network of small hydropower plants…
After almost a year of intense negotiations, Azerbaijan and Turkey have finally concluded a new deal to replace the 20-year-old contract that had governed their…
Governments across Central Asia appear as stunned as the rest of the international community in the face of the rapid disintegration of order in neighboring…
In May, Kazakhstan’s president upped the stakes for the country’s renewable energy agenda. The plan is no longer for 10 percent of the country’s power…
The Armenian government is looking to expand the country’s renewable energy capacity with an ambitious plan to build two new solar power plants. This month,…
Azerbaijan risks significant economic shocks in the future if it continues to rely heavily on oil and gas as the main pillar of its economy,…
Months-long protests against the construction of the $800 million Namakhvani hydropower plant in western Georgia beg a simple question: Why bother with big dams anyway? …
Anglo-Asian Mining had been waiting for decades. Since 1997, the company has held the rights, granted by Azerbaijan, to three gold deposits beyond its reach,…
Turkey's state gas grid operator Bota? has opened a tender for a gas pipeline to supply Azerbaijan’s exclave of Nakhchivan. The new supply route would…
The government in Kazakhstan has, in the light of the unfolding coronavirus pandemic and the concomitant fall in global oil prices, revised its economic projections…
Azerbaijan says it has proven an oil deposit in the Caspian Sea is commercially viable, offering a small psychological boost as the country’s oil-based economy…
Demand for dollars has spiked in Azerbaijan amid fears of another currency devaluation following a plunge in oil prices. A feud between Saudi Arabia and…
In discussions about renewable energy, Azerbaijan is not the first country that springs to mind. As one of the world's top 25 oil and gas…