Germany’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office suspects former head of Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service August Hanning of cooperating with an agent of Azerbaijani intelligence, Der Spiegel writes. According to the investigation, Hanning used secret documents from the former head of his office, Manfred D., to prepare an analytical report for an officer of a foreign intelligence service.

#DerSpiegel #AvgustHanning #Azerbaijan #GermanAzerbaijaniForum #FederalProsecutorsOfficeofGermany

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the Russian attack on a corn ship in the Black Sea led to the captain’s death. According to him, another sailor is missing, and 11 crew members were rescued.

#Azerbaijan #VladimirZelensky #RussianMinistryofDefense #Russia #Romania #BlackSea

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Azerbaijani authorities have allowed economist Gubad Ibadoglu to travel to Germany for urgent surgery after his arrest in 2023. The charges against him have not been dropped, and the investigation into the case continues.

#Azerbaijan #Germany #GubadIbadoglu #corruption #politicalprisoners #repressions

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European Commission spokesperson Arianna Podesta said that it depends on the citizens of Russia themselves whether they will have a government that supports the war against Ukraine or not. She said this in response to a question from «Vot Tak» about Yulia Navalnaya’s comment after the EU decision to lift sanctions on Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman.

#Azerbaijan #VladimirPutin #WarinUkraine #EuropeanCommission #EuropeanUnion #society #protests

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The European Union lifted sanctions on Alfa-Bank co-founder Mikhail Friedman and businessman Alisher Usmanov. Bloomberg, citing a source, writes that this came as a surprise to Friedman.

#Azerbaijan #AlisherUsmanov #VladimirPutin #EuropeanUnion #Luxembourg #MikhailFridman

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In August, 45 km from Yerevan, the startup Firebird launched an AI data center that by the end of 2027 is expected to grow to 300 megawatts of capacity and more than 70,000 Nvidia chips. The project is aimed primarily at foreign clients, but part of the resources is reserved for local projects and government agencies.

#nvidia #Azerbaijan #Armenia #DonaldTrump #Yerevan #NikolPashinyan

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On the morning of September 19, 2023, Azerbaijani troops launched an offensive against the remnants of Karabakh, where Armenians were still living. Over the next couple of weeks, almost all of them left for Armenia along the long serpentine road known as the Lachin Corridor. And like almost everything in the Karabakh conflict, this event got two names. «Ethnic cleansing», according to the Armenian side, and «voluntary resettlement», according to the Azerbaijani side. The spectacle of a hundred thousand people leaving their homes forever shocked many. But for outside audiences, the shock was short-lived. Azerbaijan managed to convince everyone so quickly that what was happening was normal and inevitable that the topic disappeared from the agenda. It was also in Russia’s interest to sweep everything under the rug so that no one would ask an awkward question. The only thing left now is to make sense of what happened and not allow propaganda myths to take root.

#Azerbaijan #Analytics #Armenia #ArmenianAzerbaijaniconflict #lifeinexile #personalexperience #NagornoKarabakh #aftertheUSSR #Russia #RubenVardanyan #ethnicconflicts

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France is seeking from European Union countries the lifting of sanctions on Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov in exchange for the release of several French citizens who are imprisoned in Azerbaijan. Because of this dispute, EU ambassadors on Monday agreed only to a one-week postponement and extended sanctions against nearly 3,000 individuals and legal entities until September 22.

#Azerbaijan #AlisherUsmanov #WarinUkraine #EU #sanctions #Ukraine #France

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The sharp and simultaneous escalation of Russian-Azerbaijani and Russian-Armenian relations that occurred recently reveals much about the Kremlin’s entire foreign policy.

#Azerbaijan #Aliyev #Armenia #foreignpolicy #diplomacy #Yerevan #migrants #Moscow #odkb #aftertheUSSR #Putin #Russia #RecepErdogan #Turkey #Shos #EmmanuelMacron

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