FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 14.10.2021 “I want to drown because I breathe in a country where people try to vindicate the rapist instead of standing with the girl who was raped at the age of 16. ” Governance, economy, corruption. FB community reacts to president Aliyev’s interview with Italian La Repubblica. In an interview to the Italian newspaper, Ilham Aliyev said in response to the question about the "Pandora Papers" that he had been president for eighteen years, and before that, he was a successful businessman. Responding to the accusations, Aliyev said that after becoming president,...


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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 10.05.2021 “… Let me say the word, bastard ! …” The FB community continues to react with indignation at the brutal dispersal of the            vigil on May 7th, arranged by the bloggers in exile; decries the detention on 9th May of the Musavat activists, protesting Russia’s military parade in Karabagh; continues to mourn the death of activist Bayram Mammadov in Turkey and to campaign for its fair investigation; celebrates 8th May as the liberation day of Shusha city, and asks questions in regards to the reconstruction and building of the infrastructure...


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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 31.08.2020  FB community discusses the scandal with the falsified data on Azerbaijan, along with some other countries, used in Doing Business report of the WB,  continues to discuss events in Belarus, shares the statement by PFP about illegal detentions of its members , decries the continued attraction of the fake witnesses to the court hearing of Tofig Yagublu, FB community closely follows events in Belarus, solidarizing with the protesters. They share an information that former head of state Shushkevich called for depriving of Russian language of the status of official...


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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. Nurlan Libre, Ilkin Rustamzade, Azadlig Newspaper and many...


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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 11.12.2019 The nature of ongoing changes and opposition’s participation in elections continue to be discussed. The FB users shared the posting by the Russian citizen of Azerbaijani origin  Farkhad Akhmedov, who analyses in details the current political state of affairs in Azerbaijan, stresses necessity of reforms, criticizes traditional opposition and calls (after the president Aliyev)  for the creation of a new, constructive opposition. The activist and opposition figure Hikmet Hacizade writes with some irony: “The author suggests to replace the uneducated and old MPs by the young...


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