On 08.02.2024, the President of the European Council Charles Michel was among the first to congratulate Ilham Aliyev on his victory in the presidential elections, even though the official results of these elections will not be vowed until February 17.
According to EADaily, citing Azerbaijani sources, “State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan has collapsed revenues”.
In January 2024, State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan (SOFAZ) revenues from Azeri–Chirag–Gunashli (ACG–the Azerbaijan’s largest oil block) amounted to $387.645.000, while, last January ACG revenues reached $625 million. The difference is more than obvious.
The events unfolding around Russian-Turkish relations may indicate that Ankara, figuratively speaking, is “packing bags” after a not so long, but stormy “political-economic romance” with Moscow.
On 02.08.2024, the Iranian news agency Tasnim, citing sources in the Iranian security agencies, reported that the country’s special services detained a group of people preparing sabotage on Iranian territory.
Over a week after the attack on the US base near the Syrian–Jordanian border, the United States finally implemented the promised “retaliation strike”.
According to the sources from CENTCOM (US Central Military Command), the US Air Force, launched three wave attack: “struck more than 85 targets in Syria and Iraq, using numerous aircraft, including long-range bombers.
Following the visit of FR President Emmanuel Macron to India in late January 2024, a package of cooperation agreements was signed between Paris and New Delhi in the fields of defense industry, civil aviation, digital technologies, nuclear energy, space research, etc.
After the January 28, 2024 attack, by an unidentified drone on the American base on the Syrian-Jordanian border, the international community has frozen in an alarming anticipation of US retaliatory measures, which could become a trigger for an all-out war against Iran.
In a response to statements by EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell about concerns on Azerbaijan’s territorial claims to Armenia, Baku harshly criticized the European organization. On January 22, 2024, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan stated that it “strongly rejects the unfounded accusations”.
Several international media outlets, citing Foreign Policy magazine, write that the White House and the Pentagon no longer consider it appropriate to extend American contingent’s mission in Syria. It is about at least 900 American troops who, in collaboration with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) – opposition to the Assad government – are allegedly fighting ISIS in this Arab republic.
The sentencing of the Bashkir activist Fail Alchinov by the Baymak city court (RF) on January 17, 2024, led to unrest in Bashkortostan. Back on April 28, 2023, Alchinov spoke at a citizen meeting near the Ishmurzino house of culture with a speech of negative content towards “Armenians, Caucasian nationalities and nationalities of Central Asia” whom he also called “kara khalik” (in Bashkirian – “black people”).
