FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 25.02.2021 “ …Russian peacekeepers, get out of the country...! ” Moving through February, the mood of FB users is lightening a little with pre-Novruz traditions symbolising renewal and reconnection with elements of nature: water (Su Chershenbesi on Feb 23rd) - fire, wind and earth - being celebrated once again in liberated Aghdam region. The post-war situation and prevailing uncertainty within the Russian peacekeeper-controlled territories, with the relocation of part of a  Russian military base in Armenia closer to the borders with Azerbaijan, together with...


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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 18.02.2021 “…In order to build a “smart village”, one needs to have a smart government…” The FB community demonstrates an increasing sense of deep frustration and disempowerment with the unfolding of political agendas that are perceived as a distinct threat to the constructive development of a thriving post-war society.  A sense of betrayal is heightened at times with humour, but the issues are ever more clearly elicited with Putin’s Russia consolidating its outreach and internal oligarchs keen to further their own material targets regardless of the weakening...


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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 01.02.2021 “…If this nation, among hundreds of hopeless politicians, managed to produce M.E. Rasulzade, we should believe in its future…” The FB community is still concerned with the situation in Upper Karabagh, discusses the economy, governance and corruption, the protests of families of war martyrs, reacts to the 100% inflation of water bills, discusses relations with Russia, rallies in support of Navalny and the influence of these events on Azerbaijan, and celebrates the birthday of the founder of Azerbaijan People’s Republic (1918-1920), M.E. Rasulzade. Situation...


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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 09.07.2020 The FB was dominated by discussions of ineffectiveness of the state coronavirus policies, president Aliyev’s meetings and speeches, bureaucratic corruption - both at the low and high levels, crisis in economy, people’s growing dissatisfaction, the fire at the Sobsan factory, reaction of the president to the scandal in the Fairmont Hotel, the president’s Aliyev online conversation with UN Secretary General Gutierrez. The situation with coronavirus and the state policies are actively discussed. Most recent article in Zerkalo on this topic was widely shared,...


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