Fuad Shahbazov
@fuadshahbazov
Mostly Geopolitics I @CheveningFCDO Scholar I Formerly @CfSC, @DanielMorganGS, @SAM_Baku I MSc. Terrorism @Bergamo_Univ I MSc. Defense @Durham_SGIA I Personal ©
🚨🥳Some personal news: After two years of intensive work and dedication, I am thrilled to announce that our newly edited volume, Strategic Implications of the War in #Ukraine for the Post-Soviet Space: A View from the #Caucasus and #Central Asia, in partnership with…
📌Meanwhile, #Azeri gas will start flowing to #Syria 🇸🇾 on August 1 via #Kilis 🇹🇷 pipeline.
⚡️Yesterday, #AZE President's aide Hikmat Hajiyev confirmed that Baku recently hosted #Israel 🇮🇱 #Syria🇸🇾 talks, even though armed escalation occurred shortly after in #Suwayda. Today, unofficial sources report that in a few days the next 🇸🇾-🇮🇱 talks will kick off in #Baku with…
⚡️Yesterday, #AZE President's aide Hikmat Hajiyev confirmed that Baku recently hosted #Israel 🇮🇱 #Syria🇸🇾 talks, even though armed escalation occurred shortly after in #Suwayda. Today, unofficial sources report that in a few days the next 🇸🇾-🇮🇱 talks will kick off in #Baku with…
📌In light of President Ilham Aliyev's recent remarks, #Russian missiles "surprisingly" landed very nearby the #AZE Embassy in #Kyiv yesterday, followed by human casualties. Moreover, #Kremlin-linked social media accounts actively engaged in anti-AZE campaign demanding to "punish…
A very interesting moment as the #UKR 🇺🇦 journalist Olena Kurbanova presented #AZE 🇦🇿 President Ilham Aliyev patches of #Ukrainian combat brigades fighting against #RUS. Aliyev's response was "Keep it going." This answer and Aliyev's statements during the #ShushaForum highlighted…
Interestingly that only a few days after Ahmad al Sharaa's visit to #Baku 🇦🇿 and an informal meeting of #Israeli 🇮🇱 #Syrian 🇸🇾 security chiefs, #IDF launched mass attacks on Damascus forces. Likely, #TUR will soon reach out to #AZE seeking truce in the border area.
Julani convoy struck by the IDF There's currently no ceasefire. Clashes and massacres have been going on throughout and the IDF continues to attack
According to the #IRN 🇮🇷 state media, Advisor to the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, Ali Akbar Velayati, during the meeting with the #Pakistani 🇵🇰 Interior Minister Naqwi in #Tehran, addressed his complaints regarding #AZE 🇦🇿 that "as a Shia Muslim country, Baku is too closely…
#SOCAR is now entering the #Syrian energy market with the signed MoU. In my previous @StimsonCenter piece, I briefly outlined #AZE's interest in this field and 🇮🇱's role stimson.org/2025/azerbaija…
After intensive diplomatic traffic, #Syrian leader Ahmad al Sharaa today landed in #Baku. Although no official agenda is available, al Sharaa will likely seek a deeper #AZE involvement in the current dialogue with #Israel.
📌In a major move, #AZE security forces arrested two Azerbaijanis for allegedly being members of the notorious #Russian #WagnerGroup and fighting overseas, and committing crimes abroad and at home. This is another significant escalation in the context of the current #RUS #AZE…
📌Meeting in #AbuDhabi kicks off. Heads of MFAs and bilateral commissions are also attending, hinting that the main topics of discussion will be the final peace agreement (MFAs) and border demarcation/delimitation (Mustafayev/Grigoriyan).
🇦🇿 President Ilham Aliyev and the🇦🇲 Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan are set to meet face-to-face in Abu Dhabi 🇦🇪 tomorrow. The meeting comes amid earlier reports that 🇦🇲and🇦🇿 are very close to signing the peace treaty with the active involvement of 🇹🇷.
"Damascus needs funds, and the Gulf states need a stable Syria receptive to their interests." Read the full article from @fuadshahbazov here: gulfif.org/the-gulf-showe…
📌The #Kremlin retreats as according to unofficial sources, #RUS will dispatch a delegation led by Alexander Kurenkov, the current Emergency Minister and Vladimir Putin's former bodyguard, to #Baku 🇦🇿 to "settle down" the recently heated confrontation between 🇦🇿🇷🇺.
A recent @JamestownTweets piece briefly examines the shifting geopolitical landscape in #Eurasia (#AZE 🇦🇿 and #RUS🇷🇺 rifts) and analyzes #AZE 🇦🇿 and #KAZ 🇰🇿's attempts to modernize their militaries amid growing challenges. jamestown.org/program/kazakh…
Here we go, in light of the open #RUS #AZE confrontation, a storage facility very near the #SOCAR gas station in Jitomir (#UKR) exploded for "unknown reasons."
📌Although the general idea about the #ZangezurCorridor is correct, the point about the #US-run company is inaccurate, because 🇦🇿 never sought a direct involvement of a major power in this road project, whether the #US/#EU or #Russia. Nevertheless, 🇦🇿 and 🇦🇲 are keen to obtain…
The Trump administration is advancing a proposal that would introduce a U.S.-run commercial operator as a neutral guarantor of the Zangezur Corridor. The corridor would connect mainland Azerbaijan with its Nakhchivan exclave, providing Baku with a direct overland route. According…
The current escalation between #AZE 🇦🇿 & #RUS🇷🇺 is not a coincidence and is somehow tied to the current stance of #RUS🇷🇺 #ARM🇦🇲 relations: 📌With waning influence over 🇦🇲, it was clear that 🇷🇺 will attempt to "pressure" regional countries to assert influence and signal…
⚡️In my previous posts, I suggested that the current #RUS #AZE tensions will grow steadily and significantly. Today, dozens #Russian citizens were demonstratively detained by Azeri police forces, while some media reports that additional secret materials regarding the #AZAL…
⚡️In my previous posts, I suggested that the current #RUS #AZE tensions will grow steadily and significantly. Today, dozens #Russian citizens were demonstratively detained by Azeri police forces, while some media reports that additional secret materials regarding the #AZAL…
👉As a result of today's raid, two employees of #SputnikAZE were detained on charges of being recruited by the #RUS'n Federal Security Service (FSB). #RUS'n MFA summoned #AZE Ambassador regarding the incident. Steadily escalating.
📌Amid the new wave of confrontation between #AZE and #Russia, shortly after reconciliation, 🇦🇿 law-enforcement forces launched an operation/investigation in the #SputnikAZE office today, reflecting reciprocal actions. Tensions will likely grow further.