FB Digest@VoxPOPULI   “Azerbaijani government must follow the developments in Yerevan carefully and be aware that the overthrow of Pashinyan would increase the tensions in the region.” (Lack of) Human Rights and Liberties Journalist and human rights activist Elchin Mammad, currently detained in Prison number 16, has started a hunger strike. The human rights activist, who has been unjustly imprisoned for two years, demands his immediate release. According to his family, Mammad was arrested for his journalism and became a target of certain circles....


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      FB Digest@VoxPOPULI   “Those who want to replace the medieval despotic feudal monarchy in Azerbaijan with a democratic republic should take into account that, after the collapse of the Putin regime, we will need to face the corrupt partners of this regime in Washington, London, and Brussels.” (Lack of) Human Rights and Liberties Member of the Ganja branch of the Popular Front Party, Shahin Haji, an activist, and chess teacher who was arrested on trumped-up charges, was sentenced to six years in prison. Haji is known for being one of the major critics...


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  Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 20.09.2021 “…If there is a pressure on someone because he/she is a Talysh, then I am Talysh., if against someone because he/ she is Lezgi- then I am Lezgi...” Post-conflict situation. The dissatisfaction with Russian peacekeepers is steadily growing among FB community. Most recently it is related to the free passage of the Armenian and Iranian trucks to the Azerbaijani territory without permission of authorities. The reaction varies from the calls to close Lachin corridor until the Nakhichevan- Zangezur...


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  Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 29.07.2021 “…The state has long lost its seriousness as an institution in this country…” The FB community is concerned with the continued violation of the ceasefire, seeing the interests of Russia behind it, shares and comments on the Baku Statement of three states - Azerbaijan, Pakistan and Turkey, praises the reception of Tikhanovskaya by President Biden, discusses the conflict behind Turkey’s reaction to Allah Shukur Pashazade about the fatwa, follows the protests in Tabriz and Tehran, decries...


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  Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 29.07.2021 “…The state has long lost its seriousness as an institution in this country…” The FB community is concerned with the continued violation of the ceasefire, seeing the interests of Russia behind it, shares and comments on the Baku Statement of three states - Azerbaijan, Pakistan and Turkey, praises the reception of Tikhanovskaya by President Biden, discusses the conflict behind Turkey’s reaction to Allah Shukur Pashazade about the fatwa, follows the protests in Tabriz and Tehran, decries...


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  Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 19.07.2021 “…The spies of the regime are in our telephone. Without our knowledge. Step by step. Every minute. With us.” The FB users express a high level of concern at the systematic violation of the ceasefire by the Armenian party, predicting the possibility of a new war, an anti-terror operation or Russia-Turkey clashes, and are shocked by the sensational investigation of the OCCRP of the Pegasus spyware used by authorities to monitor telephones of activists and journalists. They celebrate the 32nd...


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  Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 12.07.2021 “…Russia is ‘a prison’ which she does not want Azerbaijan and Armenia be released from…” The prospect of Azerbaijan’s CSTO observer status remains a hot issue on FB, with the community mainly denouncing it, along with continuing criticism of Russia’s role in the country, conflict and region; are keenly upset at the lack of understanding in the West of Azerbaijan’s position on Karabagh, including the refusal of the Minsk group co-chairmen to visit Shusha. They are highly concerned...


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  Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 24.05.2021 “...Of all Minsk group co-chairmen, Russia is the most dangerous, exactly because she created this problem…” The FB community is extremely concerned with the lack of information about the new agreement to be signed between the two states, obtained mainly from Armenian sources; comments on the speech of Ilham Aliyev at the meeting with foreigners at the Nizami Ganjavi Centre, continues to discuss the inter-ethnic tensions in Georgia and suspects Russia behind it, is shocked by the state’s...


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  Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 04.02.2021 “…It is you, who made the governance based on inequality and injustice thrive…” The FB community concerns itself with the situation in Upper Karabagh, comments on the President’s criticism of bureaucrats, decries the decision of the Council on Tariffs, the students’ protests and arrests at Lenkoran University, the country’s democracy rating allocated by the Economist Intelligence Unit, discusses US policy towards Turkey, appeals to President Biden to repeal Amendment 907, and continues...


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  Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 29.10.2020      “…The Azerbaijan-Armenia war is a litmus test on the attitudes of observers …”                                        The war continues to be the central topic of FB. The FB community decries and mourns the shelling of Barda by the Armenian army, resulting in 90 civilian victims, which has amplified the emotional tone and intensity of the postings, put pressure on peacemakers, and provoked the perception of some Western observers as being one-sided. The FB community...


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  Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 29.10.2020      “…The Azerbaijan-Armenia war is a litmus test on the attitudes of observers …”                                        The war continues to be the central topic of FB. The FB community decries and mourns the shelling of Barda by the Armenian army, resulting in 90 civilian victims, which has amplified the emotional tone and intensity of the postings, put pressure on peacemakers, and provoked the perception of some Western observers as being one-sided. The FB community...


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  Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 27.07.2020 The Armenian attacks on Azerbaijanis  abroad, continued persecution of activists, in particular the arrest of Fuad Gahramanli, and then Mammad Ibrahim and Sarva,  statement by the intellectuals of the country and  from exile in protest against repressions of the Popular Front Activists. FB community actively discusses the spill over of the conflict to the foreign states and clashes between the two Diasporas in Brussels, Los Angeles, Russia, Ukraine. It reports the rallies in Prague, but it went...


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In response to the number of restrictive amendments to the NGO law adopted by the Azerbaijani Parliament- Milli Majlis in the end of December and as a follow up of the last conference by the CNIS and CLI the group of leading NGOs ( among them Public Intitiave Center, Center for National and International Studies, Azerbaijan Chapter of Helsinki Civil Assembly and many others) decided to restore created in 2009 the Civil Society Defence Committee ( CSDC) . It was agreed to conduct a series of activities directed to the prevention of signing of the amendments into the law by the president of the republic....


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