The oil and gas sectors in Azerbaijan have boomed since the end of the Soviet Union, bringing economic development and...
21 May, 2022 / Firuza Nahmadova
The oil and gas sectors in Azerbaijan have boomed since the end of the Soviet Union, bringing economic development and...
21 May, 2022 / Firuza Nahmadova
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2 May, 2022 / Anar Jafarov
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29 April, 2022 / Tinay Mushdiyeva
Since the end of the second Karabakh war, many Azerbaijani officials, including the president himself, have declared multiple times that...
6 April, 2022 / Ilkin Huseynli
The main sources of this article are official speeches and statements of authorities, mass media and social networks, as well...
4 April, 2022 / Shalala Mammadova
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12 March, 2022 / Anar Jafarov
By Ilkin Huseynli and Farid Mehralizade Usually the main demand voiced during Azerbaijani public discussions of education is that more...
Economic inequality is deepening, natural resources are being exhausted due to overconsumption, exploitation of labor is intensifying, hierarchical gender relations...
14 February, 2022 / Nurlana Jalil
Transitions of power are never easy in authoritarian, autocratic and corrupt regimes. A single person is the keystone of the...
5 February, 2022 / Régis Genté
One of the main international problems continuing into the new year is the Ukrainian crisis and continued standoff over its...
8 January, 2022 / Shahin Jafarli
Those who propose radical (new), particularly progressive ideas frequently face criticism based on the proposition that the people or the...
22 December, 2021 / Ilkin Huseynli
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18 December, 2021 / Altay Goyushov
On 3 April 1993, in a protest against the occupation of Azerbaijan’s Kalbajar region by Armenia, Turkey closed its borders...
15 December, 2021 / Nurlan Huseynov
Since his return to his homeland, the former Georgian President has sucked the air out of the national political arena,...
22 November, 2021 / Régis Genté
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9 November, 2021 / Anar Jafarov
AN ANALYSIS BY ZULFIYYA ABDURAHIMOVA-CARBERRY, IN COLLABORATION WITH RIWI https://riwi.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Perceptions-of-Human-Rights-and-Civic-Activism-in-Azerbaijan_revised-v2-1.pdf
5 November, 2021 / Zulfiyya Abdurahimova-Carberry
In many countries, including Azerbaijan, elections to legislative bodies are held according to a winner-take-all principle (a majoritarian electoral system):...
1 November, 2021 / Ilkin Huseynli
Azerbaijani-Iranian state relations have entered another crisis phase. On 12 September 2021, Azerbaijani police began inspection of Iranian heavy trucks...
15 October, 2021 / Shahin Jafarli
The emergence of the middle class, or the mass of citizens that are in between the working class and the...
11 October, 2021 / Firuza Nahmadova
We can easily anticipate what would await political opposition groups if they were to attempt to hold a political rally...
7 October, 2021 / Najmin Kamilsoy
“The reality is quite plain: the ‘end of the era of nationalism,’ so long prophesied, is not remotely in sight....
6 September, 2021 / Altay Goyushov
On the basis of the trilateral declaration signed by Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Russia on November 10, 2020, Russian peacekeepers were...
1 September, 2021 / Shahin Jafarli
The internet now has as much strategic importance as other media in Azerbaijan. Internet usage has skyrocketed in recent years,...
25 August, 2021 / Firuza Nahmadova
In recent months, the news from the Westminster Magistrates’ Court has been a major topic of discussion on social media...
16 August, 2021 / Rashad Aliyev
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9 August, 2021 / Tinay Mushdiyeva
In recent years, many developed and developing countries have turned their attention to the catchy and attractive new concepts of...
6 August, 2021 / Anar Valiyev
On July 2, 2021, President Vladimir Putin approved Russia’s new National Security Strategy. A similar document was approved on December...
2 August, 2021 / Shahin Jafarli
Violations of privacy in political and social relations, such as interfering in private life, the sharing of private information, and...
23 July, 2021 / Nurlana Jalil
In his article, Vicken Cheterian analyzes the political messages from Azerbaijan after the war and attempts to determine whether there...
16 July, 2021 / Nurlan Huseynov
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12 July, 2021 / Anar Jafarov
Iran’s 13th presidential election ended without a surprise. As most observers predicted, the 60-year-old head of the judiciary, Sayyid Ebrahim...
9 July, 2021 / Kanan Rovshanoglu
From a European perspective, the resumption of the conflict in Karabakh in the autumn of 2020 could be easily interpreted:...
6 July, 2021 / Benoit Filou
Armenia recently held a snap parliamentary election for the second time in two and a half years. While the first...
29 June, 2021 / Shahin Jafarli
Studies conducted in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic have shown that drug services continue to experience shortages in...
21 June, 2021 / Aysel Sultan
The Russian project of the Big Union State directly affects the fate of the territories of eastern Ukraine occupied by...
14 June, 2021 / Maria Kucherenko
A ziyalı (roughly intellectual - ed.)[1] is obligated to create public discussions and give direction to existing discussions. There is a...
10 June, 2021 / Ilkin Huseynli
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7 June, 2021 / Anar Jafarov
In Transparency International’s annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) for 2020, Azerbaijan received a score of 30, ranking 129th out of...
3 June, 2021 / Toghrul Veliyev
Georgia has been in a continuous political crisis for the past two years. It is actually a chain of small...
1 June, 2021 / Régis Genté
An earlier version of this paper was presented during a webinar for ADA University Students, on April 29, 2021. I...
19 May, 2021 / Vicken Cheterian
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16 May, 2021 / Rauf Mirgadirov
Those citizens of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) member states who are illegally living and working in Russia have...
10 May, 2021 / Shahin Jafarli
This article is a short biographical sketch of a Chechen politician, one of the leaders of the Mountainous Republic of...
26 April, 2021 / Mairbek Vatchagaev
On the night of November 9, 2020, a trilateral statement signed by the leaders of Russia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia ended...
12 April, 2021 / Shahin Jafarli
In the economic life of Azerbaijan, 2020 was marked by the establishment of various state funds (actually charitable funds). Although...
25 March, 2021 / Toghrul Veliyev
The question of the political status Nagorno-Karabakh has been at the centre of the conflict since it emerged in 1988....
15 March, 2021 / Vicken Cheterian
In this article, I will first examine the status discussions which preceded the 44-day Second Karabakh War. Then I will...
3 March, 2021 / Samir Isayev
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1 March, 2021 / Nurlana Jalil
The struggle against domestic violence should be political rather than cultural, because domestic violence is a political issue rather than...
25 February, 2021 / Ilkin Huseynli
“The truth is always implausible… To make the truth more plausible, it's absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood...
14 February, 2021 / Rauf Mirgadirov
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5 February, 2021 / Nijat Mammadbayli
This research paper seeks to explore the history of secularism in the Muslim-populated territories of the South Caucasus region, more...
30 January, 2021 / Turkay Gasimova
In summer 2020, the foreign policy advisor to the President of Azerbaijan held a series of at least six meetings...
14 January, 2021 / Najmin Kamilsoy
The Azerbaijani government began work to restore life in the territories liberated in II Karabakh War (09.27.2020-11.10.2020). The government’s main...
28 December, 2020 / Samir Aliyev
Biker and rock subcultures share almost the same set of values, dress code, behavior and moral norms. The cultural connection...
21 December, 2020 / Said Riad
According to the World Bank's report The Changing Wealth of Nations, human capital accounts for 64% of global wealth, 70%...
14 December, 2020 / Farid Mehralizadeh
To be a pacifist (from the Latin pax "peace" and ficus "making," "doing") means to be against war, to be...
7 December, 2020 / BRI Philosophy Studies Group
Anyone who accepts moral norms toward one person must apply them to all people, and therefore it is immoral to...
25 November, 2020 / Ilkin Huseynli
Housing affordability is viewed by many as a way of assessing the socioeconomic stability of a country. Housing being one...
23 November, 2020 / Firuza Nahmadova
October 15 marks the 35th anniversary of the opening of the European Charter of Local Self-Government. The Charter was declared...
16 November, 2020 / Samir Aliyev
The revival, on Sunday, September 27, 2020, of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict naturally provoked the reaction of the great neighboring powers....
11 November, 2020 / Benoit Filou
On the cover of a fifth grade history textbook is a map of the Republic of Azerbaijan.[1] This map does...
25 September, 2020 / Benoit Filou
This article describes the forms in which the subculture phenomenon manifested itself and developed, or failed to develop, in Azerbaijan...
25 August, 2020 / Said Riad
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31 July, 2020 / Shahin Jafarli
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18 July, 2020 / Anar Jafarov
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12 July, 2020 / Said Riad
Although the closure of educational institutions due to the coronavirus pandemic has excluded many students from education, the universities’ demand...
3 July, 2020 / Farid Mehralizadeh
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17 June, 2020 / Shahin Jafarli
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10 June, 2020 / Nijat Mammadbayli
Beginning in the second half of the last century, a complex social phenomenon known as subculture began to emerge in...
11 May, 2020 / Said Riad
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5 May, 2020 / Shahin Jafarli
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20 April, 2020 / Shahin Jafarli
If you ask any Azerbaijani academic deeply involved in their profession about the state of their field in Azerbaijan, you...
8 April, 2020 / Anar Jafarov
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5 April, 2020 / Ibrahim Bagirov
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25 March, 2020 / Ilkin Huseynli
On May 16, 1911, at about 3:15 in the afternoon, Lutfali bey Behbudov stepped out of a phaeton in the...
21 March, 2020 / Robert Denis
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13 February, 2020 / Shahin Jafarli
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4 February, 2020 / Jamil Hasanli
The year 2020 has started very tense for the Middle East and the world. After the assassination in Baghdad of...
29 January, 2020 / Shahin Jafarli
Over the past two decades, drug policy has globally evolved in a different direction. The classic 'war on drugs' is...
3 January, 2020 / Aysel Sultan
Regardless of whether or not the elections are free and fair, it is important for citizens to demonstrate active interest...
23 December, 2019 / Ilkin Huseynli
“I think that after a long time, we have reached a mutual understanding with my Armenian colleague at the Milan...
16 December, 2019 / Shahin Jafarli
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3 December, 2019 / Ilkin Huseynli
Comments made by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during his official visit to Armenia on November 10-11 were met with...
16 November, 2019 / Shahin Jafarli
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8 November, 2019 / Anar Jafarov
“It was Mirza Fatali (Akhundov) who brought the woman on stage, made her talk, laugh, cry, and for the first...
1 November, 2019 / Turkay Gasimova
Almost 30 years separate us from the USSR. But there are processes whose results cannot be assessed after a day,...
27 October, 2019 / Rovshan Aghayev
While spending 15 billion USD on education policy, the Azerbaijani state has failed to ensure a safe, non-violent and inclusive...
23 October, 2019 / Javid Nabiyev
In the 120-year-old Azerbaijani cinema, in contrast to women’s issues, male heroes as well as their problems and worldviews are...
30 September, 2019 / Sevda Sultanova
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15 September, 2019 / Tinay Mushdiyeva
A revival in Russian political life is apparent. A period of euphoria after the annexation of Crimea has come to...
22 August, 2019 / Shahin Jafarli
Conflicts between children are often viewed with indifference by adults. School officials and parents feel that it is pointless to...
15 August, 2019 / Lala Mahmudova
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12 August, 2019 / Anar Jafarov
In the summer of 1887, Ahmet Ağaoğlu was in the mountains of Karabakh with his mother’s relatives, nomadic herdspeople of...
1 August, 2019 / Robert Denis
In our previous article, published before the March 31 municipal elections, we noted that local elections in Turkey are important...
20 July, 2019 / Shahin Jafarli
One of the main difficulties of anarchists today is to explain how stateless societies will deal with wrongdoers: what will...
2 July, 2019 / Bob Black
The Uighur issue is not new, it was started as a result of the occupation and annexation of East Turkestan...
23 June, 2019 / Shahin Jafarli
The beginning of the 20th century was an eventful time for three neighboring imperial powers as the Russian Revolution of...
24 May, 2019 / Alireza Hodaei
Vladimir Putin is in his last presidential term, but nobody expects that after his term expires he will remain outside...
20 May, 2019 / Shahin Jafarli
Over a year ago, it was first reported that a new reform of the rules of Azeri orthography was being...
28 April, 2019 / Robert Denis