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False Messages to the Public About Municipalities
Every year in February, when the report prepared by the Azerbaijani Ministry of Justice on the annual results of administrative ...
is a prominent civil society activist and independent researcher. He is a member of the Board of the Support for Economic Initiatives Center and "Economic Forum" Expert Group. Samir Aliyev is a frequent commentator on local and international media on issues relating to economy and civil society of Azerbaijan.
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Every year in February, when the report prepared by the Azerbaijani Ministry of Justice on the annual results of administrative ...
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A raft of further sanctions has been imposed on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. Already by the time of its invasion of Ukraine, ...
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In my last post titled The Arbitrariness of Housing Cooperatives on Unprotected Private Property, I touched on how Housing Cooperatives
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Public debates about the protection of property rights in Azerbaijan are mainly focused on the injustice of court decisions and the ...
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In December 2021, the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev appointed a special representative to the liberated territories of the ...
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As it was for other sectors of Azerbaijan’s economy, 2020 was full of hardships for the banking sector. On the one hand, the reduction ...
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The Azerbaijani government began work to restore life in the territories liberated in II Karabakh War (09.27.2020-11.10.2020). The ...
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October 15 marks the 35th anniversary of the opening of the European Charter of Local Self-Government. The Charter was declared open ...
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At an online meeting on August 6 between President Ilham Aliyev and several ministers on the socio-economic situation and the measures ...
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The decision of the Central Bank to close 4 banks raised again the issue of the shortcomings in the deposit insurance mechanism. The ...
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For the last 20 years, the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, has been experiencing continuous demolitions, constructions, and excavations. ...
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The issue of high annual interest rates is currently a hot topic. When this problem is raised, mutual accusations begin, but after a ...
Shahin Jafarli
societyAnother Türkiye central and local election cycle is now behind us. The parliamentary and presidential elections of 14-28 May 2023 failed to ...
Ingilab Ahmadov
economyThe ambitious decarbonization goals of Cop29 host Azerbaijan, with its relatively small and oil-dependent economy, the recent launch of a number ...
Javid Aga
societyIn the first article, I described the geopolitical scene on the eve of Shah Abbas sending an embassy to Europe,[1] and in the second article, I ...
Shalala Mammadova
societyOver the years, the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict has become the most important problem of modern Azerbaijani historiography. Azerbaijani ...
Rovshan Aghayev
economyInformal employment remains a major challenge for developing and underdeveloped countries of the third world. The International Labor ...
Elnura Huseynova
societyPrevious scholarship on Sayat-Nova, including Soviet scholarship, tended to undermine the poet’s role within the bardic tradition by viewing him ...
Shalala Mammadova
societyWho should write the best books on the history of Azerbaijan? For example, the Aqquyunlu state occupies a vital place in Azerbaijani ...
Hikmat Abdulazizov
economyIn the realm of statistical modeling and machine learning, regression analysis is a fundamental tool for understanding and predicting ...
Zulfu Farajli
societyFalconry is the hunting of wild animals by means of a trained bird of prey. During Safavid times, this art, called bazdari, was a fairly common ...
Javid Aga
societyIn my first article, I described the geopolitical scene on the eve of Shah Abbas sending an embassy to Europe,[1] and in the previous article, I ...
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