Dec 6, 2018 | Caspian, Menas Associates
Rumours about presidential and parliamentary early elections in Kazakhstan are intensifying. Presidential elections may take place as soon as the beginning of 2019 – more than one year ahead of schedule. The last presidential elections were held on 26 April 2015, when...
Sep 22, 2018 | Caspian, Menas Associates, Turkmenistan
Hopes were running high in Turkmenistan after the much-anticipated Caspian Summit meeting produced an accord that, broadly speaking, defined the water surface as free for common usage while declaring that the seabed and its resources will be divided through agreements...
Sep 20, 2018 | Caspian, Menas Associates
President Giorgi Margvelashvili recently announced that he would not be seeking re-election after it became clear that Georgia’s opposition was not going to unite behind him. Georgia’s opposition groups are now fielding a broad group of candidates which make it...
Aug 16, 2018 | Caspian, Menas Associates
After 22 years of negotiations, the presidents of the five Caspian littoral states signed a convention on the sea’s legal status at their fifth summit, in the Kazakh city of Aktau, on 12 August. The parties: agreed that only the littoral countries can have military...
Jul 18, 2018 | Caspian, Kazakhstan, Menas Associates
President Nursultan Nazarbayev may not run for re-election in 2020, according to Kasym- Zhomart Tokayev, chairman of the upper house of parliament and second in the political hierarchy. ‘I do not believe that President Nazarbayev will run in the presidential elections...
Jun 19, 2018 | Azerbaijan, Caspian, Menas Associates
President Ilham Aliyev, of Azerbaijan, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan inaugurated the Trans Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (Tanap) on 12 June. The US$7.9 billion Tanap project will transport gas from Azerbaijan’s Shah Deniz field to Turkey’s western...
