Aliyev, Putin to Hold First Formal Meeting in a Year in Dushanbe

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev are set to meet in Dushanbe, marking their first substantive talks in over a year.

This will be the leaders' first in-depth discussion since their last meeting in October of the previous year, The Caspian Post reports, citing TASS.

Brief contacts between the two leaders took place on the sidelines of the SCO summit in China in September. As Putin noted, the leaders were able to exchange "a couple of words." However, their last full-scale meeting took place in October 2024 on the sidelines of a meeting of the Council of Heads of the CIS member States.

On October 7, Aliyev personally congratulated Putin on his birthday over the phone, ending a six-month long silence between the two.