In a reaction to #protestbaku, a number of Azerbaijani tweeters, especially those associated with the pro-government youth organization, began a Twitter campaign called #khadijautan. This translates to “shame on you Khadija.” Who is Khadija? She is a journalist with Radio Free Europe, known for her investigations of government corruption. (More on Khadija here). What was…
Fairly regularly people ask me how the Caucasus countries are similar and different. For the most part the 3 countries share a lot. But there are some meaningful differences, to me, qualitatively. But one way to look at this is to think about how people raise their children. I don’t have any literature on this,…
Here’s the at-the-time-of-the-protest analysis. And here are some updates from Sunday. Link to full. So 517 people tweeted. The most “networked” of those 517 are: aztwi ilKinHasani muntezir hajiyev eminmilli FuserLimon JamalAliBaku katypearce (that’s me – full disclosure) turkhankarim Khadija0576 And the users who were replied to the most: raufmardiyev muntezir katypearce turkhankarim ruslanazad azer_rammstein…
— Programme summary of Azeri ANS TV “Xabarci” news 1700 gmt 12 Jan 13 BBC Monitoring International Reports – Sunday, January 13, 2013 Presenter Nigar Mahmudova 1. 0010 Headlines. 2. 0100 The Armenian armed forces have fired on Azerbaijani positions in Fuzuli District. No casualties are reported. 3. 0116 In a comment on the death…
Since people are so fond of my first analysis, here’s a new one that is more up-to-date. This is a bit harder to understand because it now includes all the people that have been retweeting, but hey, thought I’d share… Link to full version Who is the most popular on this hashtag? Top 10 Vertices,…
EDIT 5pm Pacific, 5am Baku – Since this has been so popular, I’ve made a more inclusive version here. Thankfully the hashtag #protestbaku caught on and I was able to archive the tweets for analysis. I helped create it about 3 hours before the protest started. So here’s a map of the hashtag (thanks Marc…
Hundreds rally over Azerbaijan ‘s conscript death Associated Press: Governmental News Report – Saturday, January 12, 2013 Author: AIDA SULTANOVA Associated Press BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Several hundred people rallied Saturday in the center of Azerbaijan ‘s capital in protest at the death earlier this month of military conscript. Many participants at the rally, which…
It has been a busy week in Facebook.az (or whatever you want to call the Azerbaijani political reality that is Facebook (side note: do Azerbaijanis ever sleep? I keep up with the Facebook goings on all day long. It is so active!) So this week, images came out that showed the beaten corpse of an…
I’m giving a talk on January 10 at Stanford’s Program on Liberation Technology. It is based loosely on my work with Sarah Kendzior and will focus on how the Azerbaijani government takes advantage of equivocation to portray itself as a place where Internet freedom exists. The talk will be videoed, so I’ll put a link…
Mixed reaction to Azeri leader’s pardon decree BBC Monitoring International Reports – Friday, December 28, 2012 Azerbaijani human rights activists have displayed a mixed reaction to the 26 December pardoning decree of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev. The president pardoned 87 people, including two prisoners of conscience and 11 political prisoners according to the lists of…