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22 May 2011

Azerbaijan: Bloggers Divided Over Eurovision Win

Written by Pervin Muradli · Central Asia & Caucasus

Last weekend, Azerbaijan was shaking, with thousands of people flooding onto the streets of Baku, the capital, celebrating their country's win in the Eurovision Song Contest held a few hours earlier. However, not everyone was euphoric about the victory in the international music competition.

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19 March 2011

Azerbaijan: “Great People's Day” Protest Criticism Answered

Written by Leyla Najafli · Central Asia & Caucasus

Following a youth protest held in Baku, the Azerbaijani capital, on 11th March, some bloggers have been critical of those responsible for organizing the action via Facebook. As a result, one of those organizers answers such criticism on a new blog.

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15 December 2010

Azerbaijan: Hijab ban introduced in schools

Written by Aygun Janmammadova · Central Asia & Caucasus

Last week hundreds of protesters staged a demonstration in front of the Ministry of Education in Baku, Azerbaijan, expressing their outrage against new regulations banning the wearing of hijabs in schools. Bloggers react.

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30 November 2010

Caucasus: Revelations & Confusion over Cablegate

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Middle East & North Africa, Eastern & Central Europe

As the media worldwide reveals revelation after revelation with the gradual release of over 251,000 leaked U.S. Embassy cables over the coming weeks, there were also some items of specific interest in the South Caucasus.

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19 November 2010

Azerbaijan: Emin Milli released, but another activist detained

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Central Asia & Caucasus

Following yesterday's news that video blogging youth activist Adnan Hajizade had been conditionally released in Azerbaijan, Facebook was today awash with news that his friend and fellow activist, Emin Milli, had also been freed.

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18 November 2010

Azerbaijan: Video blogger Adnan Hajizade released

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Central Asia & Caucasus

In a surprise decision, an Appeal Court in Azerbaijan today ordered the conditional release of video blogging youth activist Adnan Hajizade. The news, as well as reaction, quickly spread on Facebook and Twitter.

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Updates about Azerbaijani

3 August 2011

Armenia

Angered by a photograph of Aynishan Guliyeva, a contestant in this year's national selection for Eurovision, standing next to an Armenian competitor during a recent regional music festival, some youth in Azerbaijan have launched a hate campaign against the singer on the popular social networking site. Created on Monday, the page has 2,726 likes at time of writing with the campaign reportedly resulting in the singer deleting her Armenian counterpart as a contact from her personal Facebook page.

• Pervin Muradli

1 August 2011

Azerbaijan

A campaign to raise awareness of the plight of political prisoners and restrictions on freedom of assembly in Azerbaijan has been launched by four non-governmental organizations ahead of next year's Eurovision Song Contest to be held in the country's capital, Baku. A video in English detailing the campaign has been posted on Obyektiv TV and a Facebook page set up here.

• Onnik Krikorian

26 July 2011

Azerbaijan

Şüarımız GƏLƏCƏK! [AZ] travels to Georgia and becomes charmed by the beauty and “scent of democracy” the country offers in the region. The blogger notes that while his home country of Azerbaijan is considered to be the fastest growing economy in the South Caucasus it still lags behind from Georgia in terms of tourism.

• Pervin Muradli

17 June 2011

Azerbaijan

whatwaswritten translates a RFE/RL Azeri Service report saying that mother of Bakhtiyar Hajiyev, an imprisoned youth activist responsible for a Facebook page calling for pro-democracy protests in Azerbaijan, was detained earlier today after placing her ruling party membership card on the grave of late president Heydar Aliyev in protest. The blog reports that she was released after half an hour.

• Pervin Muradli

29 May 2011

Azerbaijan

Global Voices co-founder Ethan Zuckerman comments on the use of Twitter in last week's campaign by Amnesty International to call for the release of prisoner of conscience Eynulla Fatullayev. Although the imprisoned journalist was released, argues Zuckerman, several questions have been raised by the online action and not least in terms of attempts by pro-government supporters to drown it out. Global Voices' Caucasus Editor responds to the post in a separate entry on the Peace and Collaborative Development Network.

• Onnik Krikorian

22 May 2011

Azerbaijan

Dissident blogger and journalist Elnur Majidli, now living in France and facing arrest in Azerbaijan for his Facebook activity, has uploaded a screenshot of a status line apparently written last year by Nigar Camal, one of the two singers who won this year's Eurovision Song Contest in Germany, on the popular social networking site. With concerns already being raised about the less than simple visa application process for the oil-rich former Soviet republic ahead of next year's competition, Camal, now a British citizen, appears to says she was refused an extension for her own visa and commented “what an idiotic country with idiotic laws.”

• Pervin Muradli

20 May 2011

Azerbaijan

Global Voices author Leyla Najafli posts an English translation of a blog post commenting on Azerbaijan's victory in last weekend's Eurovision Song Contest. Playing with the name of the local currency and Eurovision, the blogger disagrees with the general euphoria otherwise displayed by many of the blogger's fellow countrymen.

• Onnik Krikorian

Comments on "Azerbaijani"

Video Highlights: Identity, Refugees, Conflict and Open Technology

We also solicited the reaction of bloggers from both sides to the Armenia-Azerbaijan video embedded in this post

There's also apparently another anti-Guliyeva site with 6,868

Maybe the Western Press should have a more balanced view on Azerbaijan and not just look for any bad news...
Wow! Who said Azerbaijan does not want to change the habits of USSR days! Seems they can show a few...
Azerbaijan: Journalist Eynulla Fatullayev pays tribute to Amnesty after release [...] Speaking at home after his release, Eynulla Fatullayev said: “I am...