Center for National and International Studies FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 01.02.2021 “…If this nation, among hundreds of hopeless politicians, managed to produce M.E. Rasulzade, we should believe in its future…” The FB community is still concerned with the situation in Upper Karabagh, discusses the economy, governance and corruption, the protests of families of war martyrs, reacts to the 100% inflation of water bills, discusses relations with Russia, rallies in support of Navalny and the influence of these events on Azerbaijan, and celebrates the birthday of the founder of Azerbaijan People’s...


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  Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 26.10.2020 “… And now I am not a refugee any more! ...”                                                                                            The FB community continues to share news from the frontline, to mourn soldier- friends and relatives, to report more civilian victims, telling the stories of each. They discuss the meeting of the foreign ministers in Washington DC with US State Secretary Mike Pompeo and their...


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  Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 01.10.2020 “If Armenia does not want war, she should withdraw her troops from Azerbaijan…” The ongoing military actions on the Karabagh front is the central topic of FB. Media outlets, online TV, personal posts of the FB users, political and civic leaders share news, discuss the “unfrozen conflict”, its consequences both for the fighting parties and the region as a whole, and the role of external actors. They share foreign reactions to the war, in particular critically assessing the resolution...


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  Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 21.09.2020 The central topic of the FB news was release of the opposition activist and leader Tofig Yagublu with activists, politicians, bloggers, journalists sharing and celebrating the news.  The FB community shared videos with Yagublu visiting the grave of his young daughter upon his release, entering his home, meeting his family, friends and giving interviews. The National Council and other public personalities issued statements that Tofig Yagublu should be fully acquitted, while all the remaining almost...


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  Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 04.05.2020 The FB users continue to discuss the issue of government aid package, repressions of activists, social effects of the closure of four banks, arrestof the head of executive of the Bilasuvar region, clashes with police there. Gubad Ibadoglu of ADR continues campaign on signing the petition for the state aid of 250 manats to every citizen by making a comparison of the aid packages in various countries with that in Azerbaijan. He mentions that for instance in Malaysia the government made concessions...


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  Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 06.04.2020 The FB users continues to discuss the government reaction to the pandemics, the social situation during the isolation and government package of aid to the population and business, repressions, the mechanism of SMS permissions, the quarantine fines, the amnesty of the prisoners, among which is the infamous criminal Akif Chovdarov, arrest of the opposition activists and statement of the National Council against repressions. Gubad Ibadoglu focuses on social consequences of the quarantine. He stresses...


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  Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 30.03.2020 The FB users share and comment on reaction of the government to coronavirus crisis, arrests and pressure on activists, the situation with students in quarantine in Nakhichevan, economic consequences of epidemics in the region and in the country, delay with decision on the aid package to the population, arrest of two more activists. The journalist Nurlan Libre reminds that few days ago it was reported  that the students who came from Turkey faced police violence in the quarantine place in Nakhichevan....


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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 06.12.2019 The FB users continue to discuss the self-dissolution of the parliament and  extra-ordinary parliamentary elections, which were appointed to the early February 2020, decision various forces on boycott or participation and relations between the major opposition parties. The prominent lawyer and civil activist Alesger Ahmedoglu writes about the protest speech by one of the founders of the ruling party Arif Ragimzade, who was first not given a floor by the chair of the parliament Ogtay Asadov, but the latter...


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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                                                                                                                                                                                                                08.11.2019 Today the social network users actively continued to share the information about the state of health of the political prisoner and handicapped war veteran Asif Yusifli’s  daughter, who was in diabetic...


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  Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI                                                                                                                                                                                                                06.11.2019 The FB users shared and discussed the following topics: the state of health of the human rights defender Oktay Gulaliyev, the round table of opposition arranged by Musavat, reforms in the structure...


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  Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI                                                                                                                                                                                                                29.10.2019   The most popular topics have been continued post-rally pressure of authorities on opposition, debates on effectiveness of tactics of various political groups, in particular debates...


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