Many Ukrainians used to enthusiastically support Azerbaijan during the Second Karabakh War, seeing it in very simple terms.

Good analysis. Taliban brought security to the Afghan people - one of the tenets of their legitimacy claim

#Azerbaijan #Politics British MPs appeal to Azerbaijan government to free detained academic: In letter to Ilham Aliyev, campaigners urge release of Gubad Ibadoghlu after pre-trial process halted indefinitely A group of British MPs have called on the Azerbaijan government to free an academic from…

Very excited to see the amazing cover for Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination, a (great!) collection of essays I am editing that will appear with @uminnpress.bsky.social and guided by the peerless @lpennywark.bsky.social!

A New York judge ruled Monday that independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will not appear on the state’s ballot in November after he falsely claimed that he lived at a friend’s house in New York on his qualifying petitions.

Sema Yıldız is a Turkish belly dancer and actress, known as the first dancer to perform in the Ottoman era Topkapi palace, as well as for her expertise in Romani dance.

“I used to refuse to make comparisons to the Holocaust bcs I wholeheartedly believed that nothing could be compared to what the Nazis did. I don’t believe that anymore, not just bcs of the daily mass murders, but bcs of how banal evil is in mainstream Israeli discourse.” ~ @ayoub.bsky.social

Proud to be Britain's crypto colony

How Iranian Azerbaijan Almost Became a "New Territory" of the USSR: Excerpt from Mikhail Krutikhin's book Iranian Agents of the Kremlin

"For Benjamin and Adorno, thinking had to be a melancholic science, a work of mourning with no finality or purging of the dead, in concert with a history of unspeakable atrocities. What would make writing praxis? Benjamin spoke of writing as a writing of the ruin, rescuing the luminous fragments

Rafiga Haji gizi Akhundova (Rəfiqə Hacı qızı Axundova; 1931 – 2024) was an Azerbaijani ballet dancer, ballet master and People's Artiste of the Azerbaijan SSR (1970).

This a great article, check it out - everything you need to know about Azerbaijan

“The Kremlin is also releasing dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza as part of the agreement, a European official said on condition of anonymity.”

A cider maker? 😉 A car full of apples in Azerbaijan just west of the Tien Shan mountains. Photographer David Fiekle #cider #apples #Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan has what Rumelili describes as 'peace anxiety'.

@anadoluagency: ❝The martyrdom of brother Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran will strengthen the deep and unbreakable bond between the Islamic Republic of Iran and dear Palestine and the Resistance❞ • The Iranian Foreign Ministry confirms the death of Ismail Haniyeh, head of the Hamas group, stressing that i

I read recently an article which claims that Trumpism is metapopulist. Basically it makes "the people" inclusive (there are good immigrants) and exclusive (there are bad immigrants) at the same time. So it's not authoritarian in a strict sense. I think that play makes Trumpism strong and appealing

🚨 Riots in New Caledonia expose an emerging France-Azerbaijan rivalry. Discover the historical context, geopolitical stakes, and what this means for the future: www.ryanjhite.com/2024/07/30/n... #NewCaledonia #France #Azerbaijan #Geopolitics

Amache Ochinee Prowers, also known as Walking Woman (c. 1846–1905), was a Cheyenne activist, advocate, cattle rancher, and operator of a store on the Santa Fe Trail. She became an important mediator after her father, a Cheyenne peace chief, was killed during the Sand Creek massacre of 1864.

#COP29 host Azerbaijan is failing to tackle its flaring of methane, the most potent greenhouse gas According to Global Witness analysis of satellite data, flaring emissions have risen 10% since Baku last submitted emissions data to the UN www.ft.com/content/3747...

Another reason to hate Stalinism. All her life she was fighting against nationalists and then she was detained as a nationalist just like many other bright communists (some of them were national - but never nationalist) who simply didn't like Stalinism that much

She was a very brave woman of her time. Coming from a famous Karabakh khan family, she was against the feodal oppression and accepted the Bolshevik revolution and played her role in the early women's movement in Azerbaijan.

'Bahruz Samadov, a researcher at Charles University in Prague, argues that the Aliyev government instrumentalizes the anti-colonial narrative for authoritarian purposes by focusing solely on France’s colonial history while ignoring the colonial past of ... its close partner Britain.'

Hey! Here is my new article about the BRICSisation of #Azerbaijan - the country joins the authoritarian club; also, I wrote about the discourse of #multipolarity. www.ips-journal.eu/topics/forei...

Recently talked to @ocmedia.bsky.social about performative anti-colonialism in #Azerbaijan oc-media.org/podcasts/pod...

I wrote about #Turkey 's dilemmas regarding #Azerbaijan = Israel cooperation eurasianet.org/israel-emerg...

More people are going to leave x/twitter after the hiding like update (most probably soon the ability to see who likes a certain post will be available for premium subscribers). Elon is going to ruin twitter wasn't a jok

It's c. +35C in Baku in afternoon. I enjoy summers here and I'm really attached to my native city

“After the West’s criticism of the September military operation in Nagorno #Karabakh, the West is antagonised in the public discourse,” Bahruz Samadov, a PhD candidate at Charles University who examines authoritarian practices in #Azerbaijan #cop29 www.euractiv.com/section/azer...

Bahruz Samadov, a political, said that #Azerbaijan’s implementation of projects was a show of ‘nationalist developmentalism’ meant to overshadow its former #Armenian administration. ‘There is no inclusivity in such historiographical practice...' Read the rest here oc-media.org/azerbaijan-t...

Yesterday spotted the famous "statue" of Sigmund Freud by David Černý in #Prague. This man has made a lot of bad artistic project, and this is one of them.

I commented on #Azerbaijan's bizarre involvement in the events in #NewCaledonia and #Kanak movement. oc-media.org/france-accus...

France accuses Azerbaijan of fomenting political violence in New Caledonia

How France became the target of Azerbaijan’s smear campaign https://www.byteseu.com/106127/ How France became the target of Azerbaijan’s smear campaign https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20240220-how-france-became-target-azerbaijan-smear-campaign

There are many fake news about the genocide in Gaza. Always check the shocking news such as about the concentration camps

Germany's Scholz and Nordic leaders call for more Ukraine aid

Holy shit

I don't know as much about Armenian Jews but in general the Caucasus was just never a particularly antisemitic place. Which is wild, considering everything else about cultural relations in the Caucasus.

"For several years, the State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan, better known as SOCAR, operated a trading office in Texas and was actively courting American politicians to support its initiatives." I hate oil 🦾🦾

Nearly 700 Jewish professors call on Biden not to sign controversial antisemitism legislation

"Puss in Boots 2" is awesome. Authentic life (Heideggerian) instead of eternal singularity and egoism (anti-Nietzsche), pro-sharing, pro-love, and pro-community. Usually I don't enjoy contemporary mass animation but this was an exception

As a democratic, anti authoritarian Azerbaijani I can say that Azerbaijanis were also ethically cleansed, including Shusha in 1992. It was the only Azeri-populated city in Nagorno-Karabakh. However, Azerbaijanis ethically cleansed and killed a lot of Armenians in Shusha in 1920.

Good COP, bad COP: Azerbaijan’s climate charm offensive is backfiring #COP29 #Azerbaijan #fossilfuels #corruption #humanrights www.politico.eu/article/good...

I lost 31 relatives to Israeli attacks in Gaza. But I blame Hamas too An anti-war activist whose childhood home was destroyed by Israel’s response to the October 7 attacks sets out how to break the cycle of revenge Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ive-...

And I'm tired of Western far-left who see the post-Soviet social movements as Western proxies.

Homeland mentioned!!!

WASHINGTON (AP) — US Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas and his wife indicted on conspiracy and other charges in probe into ties to Azerbaijan.