Russia is to make a major naval redeployment, moving its Caspian Flotilla from Astrakhan to Kaspiysk, which is 18 km south east of the capital of Daghestan, Makhachkala.

World leaders will converge on Baku and Yerevan over the next months for the summits of La Francophonie and the Non Aligned Movement. A wonderful development, writes Dennis Sammut, but it would be even better if South Caucasus leaders can also meet together to address the challenges of the region

Inaccuracy of the voters list, restrictive political environment, and absence of a genuinely competitive contest, were some of the issues raised by interlocoteurs of the OSCE-ODIHR Election Observation Mission, according to its interim report published on 29 March.

President Erdogan will host president Putin of Russia and president Rouhani of Iran for a meeting focussing on the situation in Syria and other regional and global issues

US attempts to change the provisions of the nuclear deal with Iran will intensify over the next months, but things are only likely to come to a head in 2019 says Benyamin Poghosyan in this op-ed

By accepting the post of prime minister Serzh Sargsyan joins the club of authoritarian leaders in the Eurasian Economic Union and the CSTO, argues Alexander Petrosyan in this op-ed.

Georgia has become the first South Caucasus country to join the diplomatic rebuff of Russia spearheaded by the US, the UK and the EU in retaliation for the chemical poison attack in the British town of Salisbury earlier this month.

Land mines are a huge problem in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone affecting communities on both sides of the line of contact.

The entire Azerbaijani population of Nagorno-Karabakh was displaced in the 1990s. For Azerbaijanis recognising the jurisdiction of the defacto Nagorno-Karabakh Republic is unacceptable, which is why no one has returned

President Rouhani earlier said that "Iran attaches importance to its cooperation with neighboring states from security and economic points of view" and hoped that during his visit to the neighboring countries "he would be able to solve regional problems and lead the region towards further stability and security".