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AdnanEmin's Blog, Prison Diary, a new blog from Azerbaijan, has been set up to republish letters sent from prison in the oil-rich former Soviet republic by Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli, two detained video blogging youth activists sentenced last week and considered by Amnesty International to be prisoners of conscience. The first post carries a message from Milli after his sentence.
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I disagree on the thought that lack of constitutional backing of Russian language in the early 90’s was a large contributor to emmigration – people weren’t emmigrating cause they were worried “are we gonna be able to talk russian” but rather because of the economic and cultural reasons.