My personal blog, my thoughts.
I have already raised the question of the opposition and the fact that normal people should unite. But, unfortunately, if the opposition, who do not care about what is happening in Azerbaijan. The main thing for them is to earn money from the troubles of the Azerbaijani people.
Read more ““Musavat” and the fake opposition”
In Azerbaijan, human rights defenders and NGOs have less and less space for activity. In recent years, amendments to laws have been adopted that impose restrictions on the work of human rights defenders and strict state control over it. The arrests of the most famous human rights defenders and the subsequent trials that ended in prison terms show that Azerbaijan is confidently moving towards authoritarianism, apparently taking over from Russia its neglect of civil society.
Read more “Freedom of Speech and Human Rights in Azerbaijan”
Many years have passed since that day as a “hero” and a role model for millions of Azerbaijanis, Ramil Safarov killed an sleeping Armenian officer with an ax at a NATO training camp in Budapest. For this “heroic” act, Safarov should be sitting for life, but was fraudulently bought by Aliyev.
Read more “For the “hero” Safarov – Say a word”
Another try of the best “hackers” from oil rich Azerbaijan!
Timetv.live is the latest Azeri news site targeted by Denial of Service attacks. The 21st of March, the website received a Denial of Service attack after the publishing of an article about Mubariz Mansimov, a businessman who has been imprisoned and claims that the arrest was ordered by the head of SOCAR – State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Rovnag Abdullayev and his cousin Anar Alizade. This report focuses on the forensics of the attack in an attempt to attribute the attack.
During the past year Qurium has recorded an increase of targeted phishing attacks against against independent media and human rights activists in Azerbaijan. The attacks are launched from infrastructure in the country with total impunity.
The story of Fizza Eydarova, editor of Azadliq.info, is an example of how phishing attacks against regime critical journalists and human rights defenders in Azerbaijan are getting more targeted and sophisticated. Additionally, phishing attacks are being launched from IP space belonging to AzerTelecom, one of the country’s largest Internet provider, with total impunity.
Read more “Targeted sophisticated phishing attacks against dissidents in Azerbaijan is trending”
In Russia – a new scandal involving the detention and expulsion from the country famous video blogger Elvin Isayev. The court ruled that the Russian passports obtained by Isaev in 2001 and in 2014 were not valid.
Read more “Famous Talysh video blogger and Russian citizen sent to Azerbaijan for reprisal”
With the permission of https://www.qurium.org I am posting forensic report about internet blocking in Azerbaijan. This article has a lot of technical details.
Read more “SUS-759: Sandvine and Internet blocking in Azerbaijan”
Once again, Azerbaijan has been ranked 166 in the Reporters without Borders yearly World Press Freedom Index.
The index, which ranks countries’ media situation based off of categories such as pluralism, media independence and abuses, found no positive improvement in Azerbaijan to warrant a vertical movement on the list.
Read more “Azerbaijani Media Remains in a ‘Very Serious Situation’”
On January 7th 2019,VirtualRoad, the secure hosting project of the Qurium – Media Foundation published a report documenting fresh attacks against Azerbaijan’s oldest opposition newspaper Azadliq’s website (azadliq.info). The report concluded: “After ten months trying to keep azadliq.info online inside Azerbaijan using our Bifrost service and bypassing multi-million dollars DPI deployments, this is one more sign of to what extent a government is committed to information control”. The DPI deployments also known as Deep Packet inspection have been used in Azerbaijan since March 2017 and is best described as digital eavesdropping that allows information extraction.
Read more “In Azerbaijan, big brother is watching you everywhere: offline, online, on mobile devices and social media apps”
On January 18, 1990, a group of US senators, including the future Secretary of State John Kerry, sent a letter to the USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev in connection with the pogroms of Armenians in Baku:
“We are deeply concerned about the killings, violence, and plunder of the Armenian population committed by groups of organized Azerbaijanis over the past six days.
Read more “Statement by US Senators on the Organized Massacre of Armenians in Baku, 1990”