Youth unemployment falls in Azerbaijan, but fewer young people are working
Azerbaijan's youth unemployment rate dropped to 8.4% in 2025 from 9.1% a year earlier, the State Employment Agency reports. Yet the number of employed young...
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SOFAZ hydrocarbon sales revenue hits $4.6 billion this year
Azerbaijan's State Oil Fund (SOFAZ) has collected about $4.6 billion in net revenue from sales of the state's profit share of oil and gas as...
Ukrainian drones strike Gazprom’s Surgut plant for first time
Ukraine's armed forces struck a Gazprom Pererabotka plant in Surgut, in Russia's Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, with drones on October 16. It is the first such...
The Times of Central Asia: new undersea cable links Baku and Aktau
The Times of Central Asia reports that a 380-km undersea fibre-optic cable connecting Aktau, Kazakhstan, and Sumgait, Azerbaijan, has gone into service. The project could...
Boiling water can remove up to 90% of microplastics, Chinese study finds
Chinese researchers have found that simply boiling and filtering drinking water significantly reduces its nano- and microplastic content. The study showed removal rates ranging from...
Azerbaijan’s wind power output surges 27-fold in nine months
Azerbaijan's wind power plants generated 841.3 million kWh of electricity in the first nine months of 2026, 27.1 times more than in the same period...
Azerbaijan earns $271 million from gold exports to Switzerland
Azerbaijan sold 2,151.74 kilograms of gold to Switzerland in January-August, earning $271,199,340, about 29% more in value than a year earlier despite a 1.3% drop...
Azerbaijan opens criminal case against Turkish publicist Celal Çiftçi
Azerbaijan's Prosecutor General's Office has launched a criminal investigation against Turkish publicist Celal Çiftçi over calls to forcibly seize power and incite religious hatred. An...
Milli Majlis approves 22.8% rise in military salaries
Azerbaijan's Milli Majlis has passed, in its third reading, a bill overhauling how military personnel's salaries and pensions are calculated. The Ministry of Defence says...
Milli Majlis backs bill expanding Central Bank’s oversight powers
Azerbaijan's Milli Majlis has passed in its first reading amendments to the law "On the Central Bank of the Republic of Azerbaijan" that would let...