My personal blog, my thoughts.
Facebook has allowed a state-backed harassment campaign targeting independent news outlets and opposition politicians in Azerbaijan to return to its platform, less than six months after it banned the troll network.
Read more “‘Facebook isn’t interested in countries like ours’: Azerbaijan troll network returns months after ban”
A VICE investigation reveals how a little-known TV station and large sums of money were part of a lobbying strategy to polish Azerbaijan’s image in Germany.
Read more “How an Authoritarian Regime Infiltrated a Government in the Heart of Europe”
(Berlin) – Azerbaijani forces abused Armenian prisoners of war (POWs) from the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, subjecting them to cruel and degrading treatment and torture either when they were captured, during their transfer, or while in custody at various detention facilities, Human Rights Watch said today.
Read more “Armenian POWs Abused in Custody”
Azerbaijan’s desire to erase the history of other peoples on its lands has manifested itself not only in the last 30 years. This phenomenon appeared much earlier.
Read more “How Azerbaijanis destroyed the Russian Cathedral in Baku”
A corruption scandal involving payments running into millions of euros has rocked the Council of Europe. But details are still hard to come by and the organisation seems unwilling to delve deeper into the matter.
Read more “Council of Europe plagued by ‘caviar diplomacy’”
Dear readers, residents and citizens of the United States. Starting from May 2021, I will organize special excursions around the capital of Azerbaijan.
Read more “Welcome to Baku, Armenian city 2021!”
Another sex scandal erupted in Azerbaijan: opozitioner Magomed Mirzali living in France was blackmailed with an intimate video of his sister. The oppositionist himself told about this.
Read more “In Azerbaijan, oppositionist was blackmailed with an intimate video of his sister”
Azerbaijani journalist Zeynal Ibrahimov is literally a bone in the throat of official Baku. In his book “35 Letters to His Son,” he was not afraid to speak truthfully about Azerbaijan and its society, including the most “uncomfortable” topics, as a result of which he became a political emigrant. Ibrahimov also distanced himself from the Azerbaijani opposition and human rights defenders, who do not hesitate to throw mud at the journalist with no less enthusiasm than the pro-government media for his honest and balanced position on Artsakh.
Read more “I know that I will be damned in Azerbaijan, for the dictator sits not on the throne, but in each other person”
The teacher advised the Armenian student of Vanier College in Montreal to change the Armenian surname ending in “yang”. This was revealed by Twitter user Dany Jabrayan by posting a video on his page.
Read more “Anti-Armenian propaganda in Baku spreads outside Azerbaijan”
Kenan Guluzade, head of the public relations and media sector of the Azerbaijan State Tourism Agency, said that an open-air museum should be created in Karabakh so that children and grandchildren remember all the “horrors” and consequences of the “occupation” of Armenians. “Tolerastia” (from the word tolerant) at its best, that’s what I think.
Read more ““Black tourism” will be developed in Karabakh. Azerbaijani “tollerism””