FB Digest@VoxPOPULI   “Despite the rise of prices in goods and services, increased unemployment and poverty, unprecedented level of corruption and human rights violations, Azerbaijanis are one of the happiest in the world...” (Lack of) Human Rights and Liberties Despite the continuous criticism and frequent calls for its modification, the Milli Majlis is expected to adopt the draft law on media which is believed to bring stricter state control and limitation over the activities of independent journalists. Activist Shemshad Agha detailed the controversial new media...


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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 10.06.2021 “…Alas, the West prefers to discuss the Karabagh issue with Russians...” The FB community expresses growing frustration with Western actors discussing matters of national interest and Azerbaijan’s sovereignty with Russia without its participation, demands clarity and transparency in the developments on state borders and in Karabagh, and follows the election environment in Armenia, together with the agenda of high-level meetings of NATO, the G7 and Biden-Putin Summits. It continues to closely follow human rights issues and alerts the society in connection...


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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 12.05.2020 The dominating topic this week was the disclosed agreement of Azerbaijani government to the Iran’s project of building power station and the bridge from Iran to the occupied by Armenia Azerbaijani region Jabrayil in 2016 , the facts of corruption in the coronavirus related state aid distribution ( the salaries to the medical employees), closure of the 4 banks, alleged death of Ramiz Mehdiyev (ex-grey cardinal), continued repressions and new arrests of opposition activists, recent arrest of the head of executive power of Imishli region,  the decision of the ECHR...


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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 gave it to him after few insistent attempts. Arif...


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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 17.05.2021 “...The House of God cannot be built with the orphans’ money…” The FB activists and journalists are concerned at the tension on the Armenia-Azerbaijan border during demarcation, at the victims in the shooting on the Iran-Azerbaijan border, at the violent incident in Dmanisi region of Georgia, at the lack of transparency in restoration and building of mega-projects in Shusha such as the new mosque project, mistrust and decry Russia’s role in the conflict and in the region, are totally disappointed by the bias of France, continue to decry the violations...


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