FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 08.03.2021 “…We remember him with love and respect…” The FB community discusses the 7th Congress of the ruling party YAP, denigrating the “hate speech” of Ilham Aliyev directed against the opposition, but commemorates widely the memory of the founder of Azerbaijan’s Democratic Republic, Mammad Emin Rasulzade, displaying a high appreciation of his role in Azerbaijan’s history. The expulsion of prominent female lawyer Shahla Humbatova from the Azerbaijan Bar Association is denounced, along with the continuing acute social problems in the country. Governance...


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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 letter to Aliyev stressing the importance of human...


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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 18.06.2020 These days the incident on the Azerbaijan - Russia (Dagestan) borders is in the center of attention, along with failure of the national health system to deal with the peak of pandemic in the country, its connection with corruption, persecution of activists, social-economic policies of the government. Social networks are full of images of hundreds of Azerbaijanis stuck on the Russia- Azerbaijan border in Dagestan, lying on the ground with tied hands behind. The information that Azerbaijan will receive only 120-150 people of more than 600 who has been rough...


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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 23.03.2020 The dominating topics these days are arrest of the opposition leader Tofig Yagublu and other activists, problems in the country emerging in relations to coronavirus, reaction of the government to the epidemy, arrest in Turkey of the businessman Mubariz Mansimov. Tofig Yagublu, before his arrest wrote on his timeline: “Ilham Aliyev in his congratulatory Novruz Holiday speech mentioned coronavirus and warned the opposition. He should have in fact openly stated that this virus was spread by the 5th column the opposition and because of that the opposition should...


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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 19.03.2020 The dominating topics in social networks continue to be coronavirus and responses to it internationally and within the country, the fall of the oil price to 28 dollars, arrest in Turkey of the Azerbaijani businessman Mubariz Mansimov, police violence against protesters in front of the Embassy of Turkey in his defence, release of the political prisoner and investigative journalist , who was hijacked by security forces from Georgia in 2018, Afghan Mukhtarli and transfer him to Germany,  official and public reaction to the feminist rally on the 8th March, reaction...


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