Center for National and International Studies FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 25.05.2020 The Karabagh issue and repressions against activists remain the hot topics these days on FB. The other topics  include corruption of bureaucrats , investigation and firing of some of them, ….. The festivities in the occupied by Armenia and traditionally home-town of Azerbaijanis Shusha devoted to inauguration of the “ president” of Nagorno-Karabagh continue to cause comments and be shared among activists, journalists and bloggers. Many connect this situation to the dire condition with democracy in the country,...


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  Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 14.05.2020 The FB users have been reacting to the video of the internal meeting of the National Council, the continued arrests of the bureaucrats, disclosure of the illegal income of the heads of executive power, official speeches of the president related to the corruption. The dominating topic these days was the video of the recent internal zoom meeting of the board of the National Council in two parts, having an effect of a big scandal. First clip had comments of homophobic nature from one of the participants...


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  Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 13.03.2020 FB users continue to discuss the 8 March Rally, the controversial slogan and its reaction by the public, attempt of suicide by the poster’s holder at the rally Aysel Alekberzade, reaction to it by the authorities, statements and new appointments by the president Aliyev, decline of the world oil price, opening session of the parliament of the new convocation, the crisis with foreign currency in the banks. Khadija Ismayil reports that from blaming for the controversial poster at the rally of the woman...


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  Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 09.03.2020 The dominating topics these days are frequent reporst about victims died from Armenian snipers on the front line, coronavirus and its effects on Azerbaijan, the women’s status and situation in the country, the feminists rally on the 8th March and its dispersal by the police, post-election investigations, the world price of oil, Russia-Turkey relations and Syria, the US government award  Courageous Woman, won by the lawyer Shahla Humbatova. Ali Kerimli reports about the Azerbaijani soldier Garayev...


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  Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 15.01.2020 FB users have been posting, sharing and commenting on the parliamentary elections, relations between the opposition and the government, intra-opposition debates, events in Iran, economic and social situation in the country, high consultative meeting by the president Aliyev.  Ruzgar Movsum reminds that on the 13th of January the sentence of 6 years behind bars was read to the investigative journalist Afghan Mukhtarli, who was kidnapped in Georgia for writing about the illegal business of the president...


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  Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 29.12.2019 The most popular topics continue to be the results of local elections, preparation to the upcoming parliamentary elections, the detention and beating up of the local election candidate and popular blogger Mehman Huseynov, publication of the list of parliamentary election candidates by the ruling party YAP. The FB users widely and with great concern share news about disappearance of the blogger Mehman Huseynov, who ran for the local elections, and then by news that he was severely beaten up by policemen....


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  Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 16.07.2020 The dominating topics of these days have been the violation of ceasefire on the state border and the following mass protests in Baku, functioning of state institutions, continued persecution of activists. They also comment on the last speech of the president Aliyev, firing of the Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov and appointment of a new one, former minister of education. FB community shares and mourns military and civilians who died in the recent resumption of fighting on the Azerbaijani – Armenia...


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  Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 15.06.2020  The FB users continue to discuss the events of last weekend in Yasamal, the surge of infected and problems in health system in connection with it, the pressure on activists, the corruption of bureaucrats, relations within the opposition camp, the official “Day of Revival”, the Karabagh issue. The police violence during the weekend 5-8 June remains one of the hottest topics on FB. Altay Geyushov  comments on the Yasamal events, that it revealed that the tactic- “ I do not see anything,...


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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 18.05.2020  The FB users continue to share and discuss the video of the closed meeting of the National Council, an interview of the co-rapporteur of the PACE on Azerbaijan Stephan Schennach to the Voice of America, the relations within the opposition camp, persecution of the activists, reaction to it by the REAL’s  chair, arrests and corruption scandals of the bureaucrats, the state aid for unemployed, Pashinian’s anti-Rasulzade speech in Armenia and “elections” in Karabagh, the horrifying story...


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  Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 19.01.2020 FB users share and comment on the statement of the president Aliyev about existing in the country “fair distribution of the oil resources”, discuss conditions and personal experience in the election campaign, including the “virtual carousel”,  two-language booklet of Yadigar Sadyghli, role of Russia in the region and the world, destruction of the houses on Sovetsky street with the dwellers in them,  the course of investigation of the crime against underage girl. Running as a candidate...


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  Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI                                                                                                                                                                                                                23.10.2019   FB continues to actively discuss the opposition not sanctioned by the authorities National Council meeting on the 19th and the women’s rally against domestic violence on the 20th. The...


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