Azerbaijan scores 154 of 180 in the Reporters Without Borders’ 2022 Press Freedom Index

In it, Azerbaijan ranks 154th out of 180 countries, between Belarus (153) and Russia (155) and only two places above Afghanistan (156). The other two countries in the South Caucasus, Georgia and Armenia are ranked 89th and 51th respectively.

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Azerbaijan’s myths about a million Azerbaijani refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh – a refutation in numbers

For the past 30 years, the Azerbaijani authorities have been spreading lies, or rather myths about a million Azerbaijani refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh. Moreover, Azerbaijani historiography is silent about where this figure is taken from.

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Shushi massacre of 1920

“… I was stunned by the silence. I have never felt such a terrible, artificial silence. Suddenly the silence seems to murmur, the stones whisper and move and pounce, and the hairs stand on end. In March 1920, in three days, 7,000 houses were destroyed and burned here, according to some, 3-4 thousand Armenians were slaughtered, and according to others, more than 12 thousand. The fact is that none of the 35,000 Armenians remained in Shushi. Somewhere in the stream you can still see women’s hair covered in black blood. It’s hard for a man with a good imagination to breathe here. You walk, you walk, you walk through rows of charred buildings, or rather, pieces of walls, you hurry, fearing that you will never get out of here … “

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Azerbaijan intensifies terror against the population of Nagorno-Karabakh and blackmail of peacekeepers

Observers predicted that the Azerbaijani-Turkish tandem, which unleashed a 44-day terrorist lawlessness against Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) in the fall of 2020, would try to take advantage of the situation that had developed as a result of the Russian-Ukrainian confrontation and again destabilize the situation in the Karabakh conflict zone. The events of recent days eloquently testify to this – the Baku regime, clearly feeling the support of the many-sided Janus (there is no need to tell the reader about whom), in their favorite vile manner, actually stabs the “ally” in the back, provoking a kind of “second front” for Russia, whose peacekeeping contingent today is practically the only guarantor of a fragile peace not only in the zone of the Azerbaijan-Karabakh conflict, but also in the entire Transcaucasian region.

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