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Azerbaijan's president cites 'busy schedule' to skip Russia summit despite Kremlin expecting his attendance: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/22/azerbaijans-president-cites-busy-schedule.html

Azerbaijan’s President Aliyev skips St. Petersburg CIS summit as ties with Russia sour after deadly plane shootdown: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/22/azerbaijans-president-aliyev-skips-st.html

Azerbaijan releases Russian propagandist as tensions with Moscow ease: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/10/azerbaijan-releases-russian-propagandist-as.html

Trump expects loyalty from those who benefit from him.
Days after issuing him a pardon,
Donald Trump criticized US House member
Henry Cuellar of Texas
for deciding to run for re-election as a Democrat.
Trump pardoned Cuellar and the congressman’s wife on Wednesday as they faced bribery charges.
They were alleged to have accepted thousands of dollars from Azerbaijan and a Mexican bank in exchange for advancing their interests.
Shortly after the pardo…

Mitigating Model Drift in Developing Economies Using Synthetic Data and Outliers
Ilyas Varshavskiy, Bonu Boboeva, Shuhrat Khalilbekov, Azizjon Azimi, Sergey Shulgin, Akhlitdin Nizamitdinov, Haitz Saez de Ocariz Borde
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09294

Mitigating Model Drift in Developing Economies Using Synthetic Data and Outliers
Machine Learning models in finance are highly susceptible to model drift, where predictive performance declines as data distributions shift. This issue is especially acute in developing economies such as those in Central Asia and the Caucasus - including Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Azerbaijan - where frequent and unpredictable macroeconomics shocks destabilize financial data. To the best of our knowledge, this is among the first studies to examine drift mitigation methods on financi…

Trump on Wednesday said he was granting a
"full and unconditional pardon"
to Democratic Representative
Henry Cuellar of Texas, and his wife Imelda, who were charged with bribery.
Last year, Cuellar and his wife were indicted for allegedly accepting close to $600,000 in bribes
in two schemes meant to benefit an Azerbaijani state-owned energy company and an unnamed bank based in Mexico

Putin acknowledges Russia’s role in Azerbaijani airliner crash, blames Ukraine and air defense failures: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/10/putin-acknowledges-russias-role-in.html

Putin admits Russian air defense opened fire at Azerbaijani airliner in 2024: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/09/putin-admits-russian-air-defense.html

Aliyev congratulates Putin on birthday in rare call amid strained Russia-Azerbaijan ties: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/07/aliyev-congratulates-putin-on-birthday.html