Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 27.09.2021 “…Remember those Afghans who hanged on the wheel of the US plane? Niyamaddins. Elzamins, Agils, all are in prison because they do not want you to do the same!...” Post-conflict situation. FB community, political and civil society leaders, citizens commemorate 44 day war and its martyrs. They honour national army and those who died or left handicapped  as a result of the war. While many praise  the victory, which brought back refugees to their homeland, restored self - confidence of the nation,...


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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 06.07.2021 “…The prosecutors of Switzerland behave like the ones of Yasamal district of Baku …” The FB community contrasts the President’s mercy for the Armenian saboteurs to the cruelty shown to local dissidents, are puzzled by the contradictory official reports on the powerful explosion in the sea, decry the price increase on energy and medicine, have hopes for the West restricting Russia, share SOCAR’s losses in 2020, attract society’s attention to the environmental problems, follow journalist...


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  Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 27.05.2021 “...The Belarussization of Azerbaijan is not the way out, quite the opposite, Aliyev should urgently open up the country…” The FB community is highly concerned with the new provocation at the borders, calling for caution before sharing new videos depicting military incidents, unanimously suspecting Russia behind these; continues to discuss the emergency landing in Belarus and arrest of the blogger Roman Protasevich and follows international reaction to it; praises Joe Biden’s congratulatory...


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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 01.04.2021 “…Using such methods in political struggle is a shame and dishonour…” The FB community continues to decry the blackmail against Prof. Jamil Hasanli and other activists and journalists, discrediting it as the tool of political struggle; express concern at the visit of the Russian Defence Minister to Karabagh and the expanding of Russian military presence; mourn the day of March events of 1918;  interpret the rise of COVID statistics; widely share and quote the annual US State Department...


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  Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 29.03.2021 “…The target of the terror is not just Jamil Hasanli but the whole of society…” The FB community is outraged by the blackmailing of the prominent scholar and political leader Jamil Hasanli, at what is widely perceived as the authorities’ punishment for his opposition activities, with civil and political leaders, journalists and bloggers demonstrating unity in their denouncement of the immoral and illegal act of the regime. They raise the issue of the political prisoner Saleh Rustamli,...


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  Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 22.03.2021 “…To oppose the Istanbul Convention is an indication of oppressive thinking…” The FB community discusses US President Joe Biden’s epithet for Putin as ‘killer’; Putin’s allegation of the CIS states as being fake ones; President’s Aliyev amnesty decree, the scandal of illegal hunting of Arab tourists using drones; the general ongoing indifference to the welfare of Azerbaijani society. Opposition activist Sadyghli looks back on his pre-war interview with popular Russian journalist...


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  Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 18.03.2021 “…The virus of corruption spread by the Azerbaijani government  destroys Germany…” With the weekend of Novruz approaching, FB users feel compromised by the anomalies of government actions at home and abroad, from the lack of urban conservation policies to continued neglect of war veterans and active oppression of activists, many of whom remain in prison on false charges. Resentment against excessive funds invested in vanity schemes outside the country are weighed against impending price...


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  Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 14.01.2021 “…The Russian tsar Putin received Aliyev and Pashinian as the chair of Kolkhoz…while saw them out as the supermarket manager ….” The most shared and discussed topics on FB are: the results of the trilateral meeting held in Moscow on January 11th, the activities of the Russian peacekeepers, the renewed repression against the Popular Front Party and its leader and the opening of a criminal case, the sentence served on Luca Volonte of the Council of Europe for taking a bribe, the corruption...


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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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  Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 29.06.2020 The issues of coronavirus, government  capacity to handle the pandemic, corruption of officials, persecution of activists – the arrest of Javid Mammadzade for the mask with the photo of M. E. Rasulzade, the attempt of PR for police with the fake choir -hired music academy students, the speech by Ilham Aliyev, the Day of National Army, the flight prices of AZAL, the restrictions on buying currency by citizens – have been topics most widely discussed and shared. The activists, journalists,...


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  Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 08.02.2020 The Fb users continue to discuss the last days of the election campaign, the meeting of the president with the Turkish Foreign Minister Javushoglu and his speech, especially related to Kocharian, and the PACE resolution about political prisoners in the country, another pro-government  MP being kicked out from the meeting  by the electorate, social problems of the country. Gubad Ibadoglu suggests amendments to the new decree about “Indexation of Pensions” to extend it to all social benefits...


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