FB Digest@VoxPOPULI   “It is a terrible injustice that thousands of veterans live in poverty and the first family increase their businesses...” (Lack of) Human Rights and Liberties Colonel Elnur Mammadov, a harsh critic of the Ministry of Defense, was arrested. Colonel Elnur Mammadov, who is known for his criticism of the Ministry of Defense, was sentenced to six months in prison under Article 147.2 (defamation). Shahbaz Guliyev, who was in Armenian captivity for seven years, protested in front of the Presidential Administration, demanding a pension for serving...


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  Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 16.11.2020 “… They leave us only the ashes of Kelbajar …” The trilateral ceasefire statement of Ilham Aliyev, Vladimir Putin and Nikol Pashinian on Karabagh and the course of its implementation is the main topic on FB. The activists, journalists, and bloggers continue to express their growing concern and protest against the arrival of the Russian peacekeepers  and the immediate establishment of branches of Russian state institutions in Nagorno Karabagh, follow and comment on the course of the departure...


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  Center for National and International Studies   FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 02.11.2020 “… We cannot continue our membership in CSTO kolkhoz …”    The war continues as the main topic of FB. The community shares news from the front, discuss the appeal of  Nicol Pashinian to Putin about help and his response, decry the arson in the  woods in Shusha, domestic problems in Armenia, the latter’s threat to hit the strategic energy pipe-line from Azerbaijan to European markets, ironically assess the meeting of CSTO in Samarkand, interpret Russia’s interests, show concern...


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  Center for National and International Studies   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...


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