FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 14.12.2019 More than 200 comments caused the posting about prominent lawyer Aslan Ismaylov’s interpretation of the case with the human rights defender Ogtay Gulaliyev, which defended the Heydar Aliyev Foundation and blamed those who criticised it.  The numerous postings were shaming the lawyer, revealing deep disappointment, were full of irony  and ideas that “he could never be trusted” and “he was bought off”. FB users widely comment on developments ion Karabagh issue and adoption by the US Congress of the “Resolution on Armenian Genocide” They commented...


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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 11.12.2019 The nature of ongoing changes and opposition’s participation in elections continue to be discussed. The FB users shared the posting by the Russian citizen of Azerbaijani origin  Farkhad Akhmedov, who analyses in details the current political state of affairs in Azerbaijan, stresses necessity of reforms, criticizes traditional opposition and calls (after the president Aliyev)  for the creation of a new, constructive opposition. The activist and opposition figure Hikmet Hacizade writes with some irony: “The author suggests to replace the uneducated and old MPs by the young...


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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI                                                                                                                                                                          20.11.2019 FB users actively discuss and share the information about mass protests in Iran as a reaction to the significant increase of the gasoline prices resulted in casualties on the side of protesters. Some of the photos initially were shared under the mistaken title: “Azerbaijanis in Iran struggle for independence”....


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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI                                                                                                                                                                          02.11.2019 The most shared topics these days were: hitting by car of the prominent human rights activist Ogtay Gulaliyev, the exhibition and literary contest devoted to former chair of Supreme Soviet Yevgeni Primakov in the Institute of Slavic Languages in Baku, continued repressions post 19 th October rally and pre-9...


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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI                                                                                                                                                                          25.10.2019   The FB users continue to discuss the rallies on the 19th, 20th, final court hearing on the case of the suicide of the teenager Elina Hajiyeva and the resignation of the head of the presidential administration Ramiz Mehdiyev. The description of tortures applied to the opposition activist former political...


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