A memorandum of understanding was signed between the Caucasus International University and Caucasus Studies Institute at the University of Tehran (Islamic Republic of Iran) in early November. The memorandum envisages active scientific-analytical cooperation between the parties, joint research, conferences, lectures and exchange programs. On ...

The Center for Central Eurasia Studies and the Caucasus Studies Institute, in cooperation with their partners will hold the International Conference on Iran-Russia Relations in the Light of New Regional Developments About Conference: In recent years, significant developments have been taken place in the Eurasian region that have affected the interests ...

On April 3-4, not long before the USA, Britain and France conducted airstrikes in Syria, presidents of Russia, Turkey and Iran met in Ankara to discuss the solution to the Syrian conflict. The talks were held without any representatives of the USA and some western media claimed that Moscow, Ankara and Teheran isolated the USA from the most important ...

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei highlighted the US role in the emergence of Daesh (also known as ISIS or ISIL) terrorists in the Middle East and said those who have created the criminal group are seeking to move it to Afghanistan. Addressing a religious session in Tehran on Tuesday morning, Ayatollah Khamenei expressed ...

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Alice Wells will travel to London and Tashkent, Uzbekistan from January 30 – February 2, US Embassy to Uzbekistan said. Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Wells will stop in London on January 30 to discuss regional issues at the International Institute of Strategic Studies, as well as meet with UK government ...

Turkmenistan delivered 298 million cubic meters of “blue fuel” to Azerbaijan in 2016, and 1.761 billion cubic meters in 2017, Reuters reports referring to the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR). Thus, the export of Turkmen gas to its neighbor across the Caspian increased by 5.9 times. Earlier, representatives of the fuel and energy ...

Majid Takht-Ravanchi, deputy director of the presidential chief of staff for political affairs, has said that Iran and Europe have held talks to remove obstacles to banking relations. “So far, the talks have proceeded well and will be continued by the time a good solution is reached,” he told ISNA in an interview published on Saturday....

Ramzan Kadyrov has said that President Vladimir Putin stayed true to his pledge to support Muslims in Russia and around the world, adding that Western policies have only brought war and destruction to Islamic nations. In a new message posted on the Telegram social network, Kadyrov thanked Putin for his support to Chechen Muslims. He wrote that Putin ...

Russia will continue to support Islamic education, which plays a key role in tackling the destructive ideas spread among Muslim youths in the country, President Vladimir Putin said. The Russian authorities will “definitely support” Islamic education through “major state universities” and other means, the president said during ...

Reports say that Islamic State militants are fleeing Iraq and Syria and establishing new strongholds in the war-torn Afghanistan. This poses a security threat to the country’s northern neighbors in Central Asia, and the Taliban seems to be the only real force capable of resisting IS expansion in Afghanistan now. We are republishing this article ...

Air pollution has become one of the most discussed topics in Bishkek. A shroud of smog over Kyrgyzstan’s capital has become stronger in recent years, and it is clearly visible when looking at the city from above, even from villages located to the south Bishkek, at the foot of the mountains. This year, smog has become particularly dense with ...

The implementation of the Agreement between the Governments of Kyrgyzstan, China and Uzbekistan on international road transport reached on Feb. 19, 1998 was considered at the tripartite meeting in Tashkent on Jan. 24-25 this year, the press service of the Uzbek Agency for Automobile and River Transport reported. The meeting participants focused on ...

Dodojon Atovulloyev left Tajikistan 16 years ago and later received asylum status and then citizenship in Germany. A prominent opposition politician from Tajikistan has returned home for a brief visit after years of exile and has met with his long-time foe, President Emomali Rahmon, independent news website Akhbor reported on January 25. Dodojon ...

China published a white paper on its Arctic policy Friday, pledging cooperative governance and elaborating its vision for a "Polar Silk Road", Kazinform has learned from Xinhua. "China, as a responsible major country, is ready to cooperate with all relevant parties to seize the historic opportunity in the development of the Arctic, ...

To date, Turkmenistan has built about 1,700 large facilities, with a total value of over $ 42 billion. These figures were announced today at a government meeting, where the participants summed up the results of 2017 and discussed plans for action for the next period. It was also reported that in the course of 2017, construction of numerous facilities ...

It is possible to call official visit of the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev to the USA very successful, have been noted at Institute of world economy and policy at Fund of the First President of Kazakhstan (IWEP), BNews.kz correspondent reported. "The taken place personal meeting of presidents of Kazakhstan and the USA opens the ...

Georgian defense minister Levan Izoria announced that the Javelin US anti-tank missiles have already been delivered to Georgia, RIA Novosti reports. Earlier the US Department of State approved the delivery of such missile systems to Georgia. “The first stage of the acquisition of the Javelin systems has been successfully completed. The systems ...

President of the Supreme National Defense University of Iran General Ahmad Vahidi raised the alarm about Washington’s continued support for the Daesh (ISIS or ISIL) terrorist group and said the US is seeking to move the extremists to Central Asia and Afghanistan. Speaking to reporters in Tehran on Friday, General Vahidi, the former defense minister,...

US-based The National Interest magazine has published an article by Luke Coffey, director of The Heritage Foundation's Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies. Headlined "America Needs Strategic Partners like Azerbaijan", the article says: "Azerbaijan, a small but important country located in the South Caucasus on the Caspian ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov discussed in phone talks with UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura on Friday the preparations for the upcoming Syrian National Dialogue Congress, the Russian Foreign Ministry said, Sputnik reported. "The Russian minister reiterated the special importance of this event for the success of the political ...