My personal blog, my thoughts.
In recent years, on May 18, Artsakh, together with the whole world, celebrates the International Museum Day. This day was proclaimed on the initiative of UNESCO and the International Council of Museums (ICOM) to facilitate the increase in the number of museum visitors, and consequently, increase the role of museums in the development of society. On this day, museums serve visitors for free, conduct interesting events.
Recent statements from Baku once again shows that Azerbaijan is not only a terrorist state, but that his leadership has serious mental problems.
Because of political pressure and the worsening economic situation in Azerbaijan, ever more people are striving to move abroad. It appears that an illegal business for sending refugees – both real and fake – to Europe is developing in Azerbaijan alongside the growth in the number of émigrés.
“The migration mafia”
Read more “Running into a Trap: the Emigration Mafia of Azerbaijan”
Information networks have released information about the fourth liquidated Azerbaijani officer, who is being held in the so-called case of “Armenian spies”.
Read more “Azerbaijan continues to kill accused of espionage of officers”
After several months of blocking access from the territory of Azerbaijan to the Internet-resources and electronic mass media, which are objectionable to the government, the court in Baku officially banned these sites on the territory of the country.
Read more “The international traffic of WhatsApp, Facebook and Skype is closed in Azerbaijan”
The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group state that tensions on the contact line between the armed forces of Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan have increased in recent days as a result of violation of the ceasefire from the Azerbaijani side.
Read more “Tensions in Karabakh increased due to the attack of Azerbaijan”
AUSTIN, Tex.—The Texas House of Representatives unanimously passed House Resolution 191, titled “Recognizing the Armenian Genocide,” on May 19, thus making The Lone Star State the 46th state in the U.S. to officially classify and commemorate the 1915-1923 annihilation of Ottoman Turkey’s indigenous Armenian community as genocide.
Read more “Texas Recognizes the Armenian Genocide; Becomes 46th State to Acknowledge the Crime”
As the expert stated:
If the Armenians do not make the right decision in the near future, most likely, Azerbaijan will have to use force and restore territorial integrity. This was stated by Echo.az independent military expert Uzeir Jafarov.
Read more “Azerbaijan once again confirmed military intentions”
Vefa Mammadova, the wife of one of Azerbaijan’s leading opposition politicians, Ilgar Mammadov, spoke today at a Council of Europe assembly and asked those in attendance why Azerbaijan, after all these years, is still a member of the organization. You can read her and watch her address below.
Ilgar Mammadov was arrested in February of 2013 for alleged ‘hooliganism’ and ‘bribe giving’. The charges were later changed to the ‘organization of mass riots accompanied by riots and pogroms.’
Amnesty International is calling on the Azerbaijani authorities to ensure a prompt, independent and effective investigation into the deaths of Mahir Mustafayev and Mehman Galandarov.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on May 4 that the Azerbaijani government had violated the right to life of Mahir Mustafayev without protecting his life and without conducting an effective investigation into the circumstances of his death.
Mustafayev died of severe burns as a result of a mysterious fire in his cell in December 2006.
Read more “Amnesty International: Azerbaijan Must Investigate Recent Prison ‘Suicide’”