The European Union (EU) has accepted Uzbekistan as a beneficiary country of the special incentive arrangement for sustainable development and good governance (GSP+)  in a move recognising the country's ongoing reforms.

Moody's Investors Service ("Moody's") has changed the outlook of Azerbaijan's State Oil Company (SOCAR) to positive from stable.

Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company PJSC (Masdar), one of the leading renewable energy companies in the world, plans to invest $200 million in the construction of a solar power plant in Azerbaijan, the ex-Soviet country's energy ministry said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s press secretary has reopened a highly divisive debate over the use of the Russian language in the country, saying that alongside Ukrainian there existed “Ukrainian Russian” as a fundamental part of national identity.

A mark of the seriousness with which Washington regards Russia’s sudden troops build up on Ukraine’s border is that, after months of silence, it provoked new President Joe Biden’s first telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.