Azerbaijan
ING: Oil prices at $60, now what?
There seems to be no stopping oil prices, with ICE Brent now trading well above $60/bbl. Clearly OPEC+ cuts are doing their job, while global recovery hopes are playing a big part. Will the oil price keep rising?
Abuse and hate speech against LGBTI people rises across Europe and Central Asia
Crackdown on democracy and civil society during pandemic accompanied by increase in hate speech by politicians finds ILGA-Europe report.
Turkey’s Q2 natural gas import prices set to rise, talks launched on Iran contract
Oil-indexed prices on track to rise substantially. Pipeline operator Botas is front-loading its 2021 take.
Petrostates to lose trillions of dollars in revenues amid clean energy push: report
New “wake-up call” analysis from Carbon Tracker looks at impact of shift towards lower-carbon energy.
BEYOND THE BOSPORUS: Soft power in the Balkans, hard power in the Caucasus
A mid-sized power, Turkey wields considerable clout in its near neighbourhood.