President Ilham Aliyev this week used only very thinly veiled language in saying “mediators” – which could only mean the OSCE – were not neutral but rather too often bureaucrats only interested in preserving the “status quo”.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan will officially resign sometime during the last 10 days of April, a step that is necessary to hold planned June 20 early parliamentary elections.

The price of oil could plunge to as little as $10 a barrel by 2050 if the world succeeds in electrifying the energy market and meeting the Paris Agreement goals, analysis by consultancy Wood Mackenzie shows.

Moldova, linked throughout its history to both Romania and Russia, remains mired in a political impasse pitting "pro-European" President Maia Sandu against her "Russian-friendly" predecessor, Igor Dodon.

PASHA Bank, a leading corporate bank in Azerbaijan, reported a net profit of 18.79 million manats ($11 million) in the first quarter of 2021, which is 5.4 times more compared to the same period in 2020.

Uzbekistan is taking steps to develop its capital market and increase the total volume of securities in free circulation to at least 5 percent of the country's GDP, as a part of its plan to reform its economy.