After years of preparations, Azerbaijan is hosting the first ever European Games, which kicked off on June 12 and will end on June 28. Besides being a high-profile international sporting event, the Games also serve as an important symbol for Azerbaijan to prove its ties to the European community of states (Cbc.az, May 26).
The opening ceremony of the European Games attracted tens of thousands of live spectators to the Olympic Stadium in Baku, as well as a number of international leaders, including Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Vladimir Putin, the presidents of Turkey and Russia—the two biggest geopolitical players in the …read more
Source: The Jamestown Foundation
