FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 02.01.2020 The FB users summarize the year 2019, make predictions for 2020 and discuss the events of the turn of the year. Tofig Yagublu of Musavat concludes: “ I am sorry, my motherland! We enter the new year with Karabagh occupied by the Armenian troops, while the rest of the country- by Aliyev’s! Shame on us!” Natig Jafarli of REAL makes an overview of the international events. He notes that most if his last year predictions realized. He starts with the US, mentioning that for Trump to be re-elected he needs to fulfill a few tasks in domestic and foreign policy....


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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 25.12.2019 The most popular topic on FB is the municipal election which took place on 23 December 2019 and preparations for the parliamentary elections in February 2020. Some popular leaders -human rights defenders, civil activists, young politicians, such as Mehman Huseynov, Ziya Guliyev report on the results of their participation in the municipal elections, while others, such as  Ilkin Rustamzadeh, Elchin Mammad, announce their running as candidates from various districts for the parliamentary elections. FB users widely share updated information and monitoring...


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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 20.12.2019 The FB users continue to discuss the developments in the government structures. The decision of the 83 year old singer, loyal member of the ruling party and MP Zeyneb Khanlarova to move to the US still causes numerous comments. Many note that she in fact moved there 8 years ago and established the charity foundation in New York called after her name. The journalist Javanshir Hasanli writes:”… She could have established the foundation in Baku. And even in Khizi ( the small settlement near Baku) and not only in Brooklyn” He then continues, that her income...


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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 16.12.2019 The FB users shared news about signs of improvement in the state of health of human rights defender Oktay Gulaliyev, his son reporting that he started to open his eyes. They also actively discuss yet another fire- just a few days after the one in EuroHome market – at the market of the 3d Micro-district of the capital in the context of “ the fire or the arson?”. Many comment that this is arson as the method of intra-clan struggle. The media is reflecting it often in the form of cartoons, or video interviews. The activists, bloggers and journalists continue...


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