Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 09.07.2020 The FB was dominated by discussions of ineffectiveness of the state coronavirus policies, president Aliyev’s meetings and speeches, bureaucratic corruption - both at the low and high levels, crisis in economy, people’s growing dissatisfaction, the fire at the Sobsan factory, reaction of the president to the scandal in the Fairmont Hotel, the president’s Aliyev online conversation with UN Secretary General Gutierrez. The situation with coronavirus and the state policies are actively discussed....


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  Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 06.07.2020 The most popular topics are the pandemic and extended quarantine, continued arrests of the bureaucrats, situation with political prisoners and petition of their amnesty, the slander campaign, based on fake information of their “Armenian” blood  against brothers the blogger Mehman and a journalist Emin Huseynov, the violation of the quarantine rules by the elite at the Fairmont Hotel, social aid to population. The issue of political freedoms is one of the most popular topics. Ali Karimli...


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  Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 02.07.2020 FB users analyze the reasons of failure of state pandemic policies, discuss the future of the country, the aid to the regions with renewed quarantine, the economic decline, SOCAR’s declining income dynamic, shortage of water in Neftchala, situation with political prisoners, the consequences of the Constitutional amendments in Putin’s Russia. Persecution of activists, pressure on the youth leaders, situation with political prisoners is again on top of agenda of FB users. The most recent event...


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  Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 25.06.2020 FB users commemorated birthday of the first democratically elected president of Azerbaijan Abulfaz Elchibey, discussed the course of pandemic, social-economic crisis, corruption and nepotism of the official elite, persecution of activists, Putin’s Constitutional changes. The activists, journalists, bloggers, politicians commemorate the birthday of Elchibey -the first democratically elected president of post-Soviet Azerbaijan. The political and civic leaders posted the tribute to the president,...


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  Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 08.06.2020 The most discussed topic these days is police brutality in enforcement strict quarantine rules and the protest of the dwellers of the complex during last weekend, shortage of bread, frictions within the opposition camp, persecution of the activists and their conditions in prison, the situation with pandemic in Azerbaijan and the government policy, the first democratic elections in 1992, short-lived Elchibey government and the reasons of its defeat. The FB pages were full of the video showing police...


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  Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 01.06.2020 The new  information  of the protest action in front of the Ministry of Education by the students movement, reports about Pashinian and his family being infected and launch of the commercial space shuttle Dragon by Elon Musk was widely shared and commented on, as well as topics of National Independence day, the attitude of the president Aliyev to the history and the founders of the republic, Karabagh issue and Ramil Safarov, corruption of the foreign minister and other officials, blockade of Ali Karimli...


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  Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 28.05.2020 The FB users celebrate 28 May – the Day of Independence of Azerbaijan Republic ( 102 anniversary of creation of the Azerbaijan People’s Republic in 1918)  by posting, sharing and commenting on the history, and comparing it to  current state of affairs in the country. They also condemn the continued persecution of activists, especially the recent attacks on the activist Bakhtiyar Hajiyev, discuss the scandal with multimillion property of the Foreign Minister’s son in NY and reaction to that...


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  Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 21.05.2020 The most popular topics these days were charges of terrorism submitted to the bodyguard of PFP leader, repressions of activists, Karabagh, situation in Armenia and upcoming inauguration of the Karabagh “president” in Shusha, video recording and leaking of the internal meeting of the National Council, the reaction of the government to pandemic and the state aid issue, press-conference of the Baku Mayor Eldar Azizov, firing of the deputy minister of interior, social problems in the country, interview...


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  Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI                                                                                                                                                                                                                29.11.2019 The dominating topics of the social networks these days were the statement of the president Ilham Aliyev refusing the course on European Integration, decision of the  ruling party about...


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  Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI                                                                                                                                                                                                                11.11.2019 The most discussed topics on FB were: the state of health and the case of the human rights defender Ogtay Gulaliyev, repressions against opposition activists in connection with unsanctioned...


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  Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI                                       16.10.2019   FB users continue to discuss the results of the recent elections of the chair of Musavat party. One of the candidates Tofig Yagublu, who came second, but was not elected to the representative organ of the party- Divan, commented that “while the party members did not elect me to Divan, this will not stop me from the party activities and now the most important issue is to prepare to participate in the 19 October public meeting”. (Tofig...


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  Center for National and International Studies     FB Digest@VoxPOPULI                                                                                                                                                         10.10.2019 FB users continue to discuss the results of the recent elections of the chair of Musavat party. One of the candidates Tofig Yagublu, who came second, but was not elected to the representative organ of the party-...


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