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Azerbaijani state-controlled media claims that ethnic Azerbaijanis face discrimination in Georgia. The reality looks different: here they are having fun in downtown Tbilisi, dancing to Azerbaijani music under the New Year lights✨🎶 ​Ironically, while people celebrate freely here, Baku still keeps land borders closed citing "COVID prevention". 🤷🇬🇪🇦🇿 ​#Georgia...

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Zartonk Media

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🟥An oligarch, Bidzina Ivanishvili - the honorary chairman of the Georgian Dream party, former Prime Minister of #Georgia, and widely regarded as the country’s informal ruler - hosted Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at his business center. The meeting also included government delegations. The party published a video of the meeting with the original sound replaced by music. According to Georgian Dream, Ivanishvili thanked Aliyev for his productive visit to Georgia and noted that the friendly relations between Georgia and #Azerbaijan are at their highest level, bringing mutual benefit to both countries. "The party’s honorary chairman emphasized the importance of the deep and comprehensive economic ties between the two countries, as well as the potential for fully utilizing the transit corridor. He noted that close partnership ultimately serves the national interests of both Georgia and Azerbaijan equally. Ivanishvili also thanked Aliyev for supporting a peaceful and stable environment in the #SouthCaucasus, stressing that in a setting marked by security challenges, it is vital for the political leadership of both countries to make every effort to preserve peace and economic development,” the statement released by Georgian Dream said. According to the party, the meeting also covered close cooperation in the energy sector and joint transport and energy projects implemented by Georgia and Azerbaijan. The Baku–Tbilisi–Kars railway was highlighted as playing a key role in ensuring regional connectivity. 'Ivanishvili noted that Georgia remains open to Azerbaijani investment, which has continued to grow actively in recent years.'

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Azerbaijan accuses the FSB, the Russian internal affairs ministry, and the Russian National Guard of torturing and killing Azerbaijani citizens. The Azerbaijani Prosecutor General's Office reported that during a raid on June 27 in the Sverdlovsk region, they detained Azerbaijani citizens and persons of Azerbaijani nationality. They "were practically helpless and unable to defend themselves from the blows" and were also "subjected to torture and serious bodily harm." "As a result, at around 3 PM on the same day, Guseyn Safarov, a citizen of the Republic of Azerbaijan, born in 1966, aged 60, who was engaged in small business, was deliberately killed in the administrative building of the Internal Affairs Department in Yekaterinburg, and his brother, Ziyaddin Safarov, born in 1970, aged 55, father of two children, who worked as a taxi driver, was killed in the morning in his service vehicle," the press service reported. ◾️ According to the forensic medical examination report, Guseyn Safarov died of post-traumatic and post-hemorrhagic shock caused by multiple injuries. His brother, Ziyaddin Safarov, died as a result of post-traumatic shock, also caused by multiple injuries. In addition, it was established that other Azerbaijani citizens also suffered bodily injuries of varying degrees of severity. ◾️ The Russian Investigative Committee claims that one of the Azerbaijanis detained in Yekaterinburg died of heart failure, while the circumstances surrounding the death of the second are being investigated. On the evening of June 30, the bodies of the two deceased Azerbaijanis were transported from Yekaterinburg to Baku, and today they were buried in Azerbaijan's Aghjabadi District. ◾️ As a result of an operation at the Sputnik Azerbaijan office in Baku, seven people were detained on charges of fraud, illegal entrepreneurship, and money laundering, according to the Azerbaijani Ministry of Internal Affairs. Meanwhile, Peskov, Putin's press secretary, stated that the Kremlin is "paying close attention to information" about the detention of Sputnik Azerbaijan and Ruptly employees. Moscow hopes to secure their release.

Anton Gerashchenko

50,557 views • 1 year ago

Iran’s new president, Masoud Pezeshkian, meets Azerbaijani leader Ilham Aliyev in Shusha—Azerbaijan’s cultural capital, recaptured from Armenia in 2020. They speak in Azerbaijani. Pezeshkian’s father was Azerbaijani, his mother Kurdish. He was born in Mahabad, capital of a short-lived Kurdish republic founded by Stalin in 1946—part of Moscow’s campaign to occupy northern Iran and fracture it along ethnic lines. Stalin also backed an “Azerbaijan People’s Republic” in northern Iran. At the time, Ilham Aliyev’s father, Heydar Aliyev, was a young KGB officer. Whether he had a role in Soviet policy is unclear, but he certainly was deeply familiar with Moscow's strategy of using the Azerbaijani ethnic card to put Iran on the defensive. For years, the Islamic Republic has threatened its northern neighbor. Now the tables are turned. Pezeshkian arrives in a city Iran tried to keep under Armenian control. He gives a speech in Baku declaring a “glorious victory over Israel”—a fantasy that makes Azerbaijanis giggle. Staunch allies of Israel, they know who really won the war. Aliyev listened politely to Pezeshkian's blather. Then hosts him in Shusha. But this is more than a diplomatic courtesy. Tehran fears the rise of its own minorities. Iranian Azerbaijanis—nearly a third of the population—watched Baku win a war against Armenia while their own government backed the losing side. One of Pezeshkian’s jobs is to soothe them. By speaking Azerbaijani in liberated Shusha, he’s trying to signal that Tehran isn’t hostile to their aspirations. It’s theater. But the setting gives it away. Pezeshkian is playing the supplicant. Aliyev is staging the scene. The real message is clear: Iran doesn’t call the shots.

Mike

104,215 views • 1 year ago

Here is my statement at the “17th session of the Forum on Minorities Issues” at the #UN Geneva office: “Due to the assimilation policy of the Islamic Republic of #Iran, presence of Azerbaijanis of Iran in public space has been faded. The Islamic Republic has taken an assimilation policy with regards to all ethnic minorities specifically towards Azerbaijanis to achieve “one language, one nation” policy. This discriminatory policy has led to disappearance of Azerbaijani’s presence in public places; here are some examples: •The Turkish name of streets and cities in different provinces of Azerbaijan have been forcefully changed by the authorities to eradicate any trace of Azerbaijani culture in the region. •Historical monuments in Azerbaijan have been intentionally either destructed or mismanaged which has led to their destruction. •Azerbaijanis’ cultural symbols have no place neither in educational system at schools nor in national calendars. •The only official language in Iran is Persian and this discriminatory policy have deprived millions of non-Persian speakers to use their own language before public offices and administrations. •Showing and emphasizing on Azerbaijanis culture in Iran can led to criminal accusations by the judiciary of Iran under pretext of acting against national security and belonging to separatists’ movements. •Public policies in cities of Azerbaijan region mostly put in place by non-Azerbaijani governors appointed by central government who do not seek the cultural interests of the people. •Participation of the people of #Azerbaijan in decision making process has completely disturbed by the Guardian Council which systematically reject candidacy of thousands of political actors who want to present themselves at the city council’s election in hundreds of cities in Azerbaijan region. #UnitedNations #MinorityForum

Ehsan Hosseinzadeh

15,832 views • 1 year ago

#NdiIgbo I want everyone one of you to see what is happening in #NagornoKarabakh, Internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan. It had been home to an ethnic Armenian population for centuries. As the Soviet Union collapsed in the late 1980s Just as Igbos are claiming home to Lagos and Northerner part of Nigeria Into the early 1990s, Nagorno-Karabakh's Armenians tried to break away from Azerbaijan, declaring independence , they built cites inside another man’s country , like most Igbos are doing in Nigeria since and after the Nigerian civil war . Today , Azerbaijani told the Armenians that by January 2024 , #NagornoKarabakh region will cease to exist and will no more be a home for #Armenias because they are not wanted in Azerbaijani. Over couple of days ago , more 100, 000 Armenians have left #NagornoKarabakh, #Azerbaijani and ran to Armenia, leaving the whole cities they built in Azerbaijani, because they remembered their genocide in the hands of the Turks and they don’t want a repetition of what happened to them to occur again. They have abandoned everything they built in #Azerbaijan , their wealth and properties and return to the Armenia an indigenous home for the Armenias . These Armenias are not talking about their container business , their shops ,their one story building they built or their face me I face you compound they built . Therefore , Igbos must learn from these people and reflect what is happening now and what happened to the Igbos in 1967-1970, it was not a fiction or fairy tale , it was a genocide . Ethnic profiling is very dangerous any where in the world and in most cases it’s leads to genocide against a target group of people if care is not taken , it happened to the Jews in Europe , the Armenia’s , the Rwandese even to the Biafrans , the only difference among these people and Biafrans is that , others have learnt their lessons while many Igbo Biafran have failed to learn anything . “Aghara ndu kpa aku, onye iro eri ya” #NagornoKarabakh #armenia #Biafra #FreeBiafraNow #FreeMaziNnamdiKanu Directorate Of State (DOS) Chika Edoziem Austin Agbanyim Isaiah Uba Official Emeka Gift Official Peter Obi Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Going Underground

Chinasa Nworu

19,735 views • 2 years ago

A major diplomatic clash has erupted between Azerbaijan and Russia: Russia is losing its influence and control in Asia. On June 27, during a raid in Russian Yekaterinburg, allegedly aimed at "detaining an ethnic gang," two Azerbaijani nationals were killed, nine arrested, and several others injured. Preliminary reports identify the victims as Ziyaddin and Huseyn Safarov - members of a prominent family within the Azerbaijani diaspora. According to defense lawyers, some of the detainees were tortured: one has broken ribs, two are in critical condition in the hospital. One of the arrested persons is unable to walk; the defense claims he was tortured with electric shocks. Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry voiced a strong protest to Russia, condemning the actions of Russian law enforcement as "ethnically motivated violence." A parliamentary delegation from Azerbaijan canceled its planned visit to Russia. The Azerbaijani Ministry of Culture banned all cultural events, including concerts, exhibitions, and performances, organized by Russian citizens. Prominent Azerbaijani journalist and activist Afgan Mukhtarli called for the Russian embassy to be burned down. "Any self-respecting nation would have razed that embassy to the ground," he wrote. A visit to Baku by a Russian Deputy Prime Minister was also canceled. According to Azerbaijani authorities, the incident is part of a systematic campaign of pressure by Russia against the Azerbaijani community. ◾️ Context: The Yekaterinburg raid has sharply escalated already strained relations between Russia and Azerbaijan. The first visible rift came back in December, when a Russian air defense system shot down an AZAL (Azerbaijan Airlines) plane over Grozny. Azerbaijan is still awaiting an official response or even an apology from the Kremlin. While the downing of the plane may have been accidental, the current actions appear to be deliberate and demonstrative: using a murder case from 2001 as a formal pretext, and carrying out the arrests with exceptional brutality. So far, there has been no official response from Moscow to the accusations made by Baku. The Kremlin is becoming increasingly irrelevant — and even obstructive — to official Baku. Moscow has virtually lost its ability to influence Azerbaijan through formal channels. The alliance between Turkey and Azerbaijan is opening up a historic opportunity to create a major oil and gas hub, one that could displace Russia on the global energy market. Moreover, Turkey is systematically taking advantage of Russia’s waning regional influence to expand its role in the South Caucasus — and potentially, in the broader North Caucasus region as well. If Erdoğan and Aliyev succeed in normalizing relations with Armenia (and it was announced that Azerbaijan and Armenia would start talks on signing a peace treaty soon), the only remnant of Russian influence in the region would be the Ivanishvili regime in Georgia. It’s also worth noting that many Azerbaijani nationals hold powerful positions in Russian business circles. Thus, the highly demonstrative crackdown on the Azerbaijani diaspora in Yekaterinburg may be a message from the Kremlin to Baku: stop drifting toward Turkey, or we’ll go after your top business elites. But if Moscow is resorting to such crude methods of pressure, it suggests it has no other levers left. This is yet another "multimove" by Putin - one that is likely to backfire and lead to a total collapse of influence instead of strengthening. Situation with Azerbaijan is not just an isolated failure, it’s a symptom of a systemic breakdown. 📹: Azerbaijan's largest TV channel blamed Putin for repressions and humiliations: "What's going on, Putin? Are you that worried that Azerbaijan became a strong state for the first time in 200 years?" the TV host said and added that Russia was used to dominating the peoples it has forced to be a part of Russia.

Anton Gerashchenko

1,002,364 views • 1 year ago

8-year-old Nver Ghazaryan and 10-year-old Mikael Ghazaryan, who were killed by the armed forces of Azerbaijan in the Sarnaghbyur village of Nagorno Karabakh, were buried in the cemetery of the city of Masis. Here you can see one small grave, too small for burial, two small coffins, too small for death. They are brothers, and they are buried in the same land to be together, as they lived their short lives together. They became victims of Azerbaijan's last war against Nagorno Karabakh and the implementation of ethnic cleansing. Nver and Mikael's teacher says that the children died in a hiding place that was discovered and bombed by Azerbaijan. It's likely that Azerbaijan used an unmanned aerial vehicle. It is certain that ground troops also invaded the village, as four people were captured from the village. In addition to the two children, three more people died, and other people who were hiding were injured. The Ombudsman of Nagorno-Karabakh also provided details about this case. The Sarnaghbyur community of the Askeran region had 76 residents before the Azerbaijani attack on September 19. Five of them were killed, 15 were wounded, and 4 were captured by Azerbaijan. The Office of the Human Rights Defender has published the names of the civilian victims of Sarnaghbyur. Alexander Aleksanyan Gohar Grigoryan Nver Poghosyan (child) Mikael Poghosyan (child) Davit Aleksanyan (child) Video source: Voice of America #Armenia #Yerevan #NagornoKarabakh #Karabakh #Artsakh #EthnicCleansing #Stepanakert #HumanRights #Refugees #humanitarian

Robert Ananyan

13,903 views • 2 years ago

Despite the economic cooperation agreement signed at the end of August, relations between Moscow and Baku continue to deteriorate rapidly. This was evident at the meeting between Putin and President Aliyev at the SCO summit in China, where they just did a brief handshake without any substantive dialogue. On September 8, an Azerbaijani citizen was detained in Russian Stavropol region (on the video). According to the Russian FSB, he was preparing terrorist attacks under the instructions of "Ukrainian handlers." The man was allegedly collecting components for explosive devices and conducting reconnaissance of the sites in Yessentuki and Stavropol, including buildings of law enforcement agencies. Despite its absurdity, this case fits into the context of the Kremlin's ongoing policy aimed at putting pressure on Baku. Earlier, leaders of the Azerbaijani diaspora in Russia were arrested, propagandists issued threats about a new "special operation," and attacks occurred on facilities of the Azerbaijani state oil and gas company SOCAR in Odesa region. The Azerbaijani diaspora in Russia is one of the largest and most influential ethnic groups in Russia. According to official data, around 670,000 Azerbaijanis live in the country, and including migrants and temporary workers, this number may exceed one million. The diaspora is organized into dozens of regional communities that actively participate in economic, cultural, and charitable life. Members of the Azerbaijani business elite are among Russia's wealthiest individuals: Vagit Alekperov (founder of Lukoil, $20.5 billion), Zarakh Iliev and God Nisanov (co-owners of Kievskaya Ploshchad Group, $2.9 billion each), and Aras Agalarov (owner of the Crocus Group, $1.2 billion). Azerbaijanis are also an active part of Russia's Muslim community (over 20 million people). Therefore, any attempt to pressure Azerbaijanis in Russia could escalate into an interfaith conflict and become a serious domestic problem for the Kremlin. The aggravation of Russia-Azerbaijan relations should be viewed against the backdrop of a changing geopolitical balance in the South Caucasus, a region where Moscow is increasingly losing its foothold. A key point of tension is the Zangezur corridor, which passes through the Armenian province of Syunik and connects Azerbaijan with its Nakhchivan exclave. Initially, the reopening of the route was formalized in a trilateral agreement between Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Russia following the Second Karabakh War in 2020 and was supposed to be carried out under Moscow's supervision. However, in the summer of 2025, the situation changed drastically: with President Trump acting as mediator, the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan signed an agreement transferring control of the corridor section to the United States for 99 years. This project could become a tool for Washington to increase pressure on Iran and expand the influence of the US and Turkey in the region. Russia has not officially voiced strong criticism of these agreements. However, there is a high likelihood that Moscow will attempt to slow down the project's implementation through its leverage, including control over Armenian railways. At the same time, Baku holds an important trump card - the transit of Russian gas to Iran through its territory. This energy route makes Azerbaijan a key regional energy hub. Moscow needs a gas corridor to Iran, which forces the Kremlin to take Azerbaijan's interests into account and limits its ability to exert active pressure.

Anton Gerashchenko

37,966 views • 10 months ago

In Azerbaijan 🇦🇿, from kindergarten to university people are instructed to hate - and kill - Armenians, in compliance with dictator Aliyev's orders. The school system does not aim at educating the young but at brain-washing them by convincing them that Armenians are enemies, that Karabagh belongs to Azerbaijan and so does the Republic of Armenia 🇦🇲, etc. Teachers and school books dehumanize Armenians, even through nursery rhymes! Once grown up, Azerbaijanis have lost all their bearings as far as human values are concerned so that raping, beheading, dismembering Armenians appear as something normal and as well deserved by the victims. Killing an Armenian in his sleep is even considered heroic and rewarded, as shown by ax-man Safarov's famous case. As for those who study the Armenian language and culture in Azerbaijani universities, they do so not in order to open their minds but to get deeper insights allowing them to have more Armenians killed. Baku's educational system creates monsters whose goal is nothing less than the extermination of Armenians. To better plunder the country's riches and divert the impoverished population's anger the Aliyevs have been scapegoating Armenians for decades. Nothing new under the sun, one may say. Of course whoever criticizes Baku's monster is jailed and tortured. Attendees of #COP29, welcome to Azerbaidjan, the land of hatred, the land of mass murder #StopGreenwashGenocide #FreeArmenianHostages

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16,251 views • 1 year ago

🚨The Islamization of Red-State Georgia 🚨 Shia Group Building Permanent Enclave in Lilburn While Republicans Stay Silent A Shia organization in Lilburn, Georgia is currently raising money to build a much larger, permanent religious center. They describe it as a “new permanent home” for their growing community and their mourning rituals. They’re calling donations a form of ongoing charity that will keep giving spiritual rewards. They already operate their own Shia cemetery in Lilburn, the first one in North America. They even brought real clay from the historic Jannatul Baqi cemetery in Medina, Saudi Arabia, and mixed it into the ground here in Georgia as a symbolic connection to the holy land. At the same time, they run weekly mourning gatherings where adults and small children rhythmically beat their chests while listening to lectures about a 1,300-year-old battle in Karbala. These events are part of their annual Muharram mourning period. They also run a Saturday school for children called DAISY that teaches Islamic laws, history, values, and Quran recitation. Funerals for their members are handled according to Shia Islamic rules under the guidance of Islamic scholars. This is not a small prayer group. This is the organized construction of parallel Islamic infrastructure inside a red state: A bigger worship and community center Their own cemetery system Religious education that includes Islamic laws for the next generation Constant fundraising to expand further Their community is growing, and they are openly building for that growth. More buildings, more programs, more permanent presence. Meanwhile, Republican leaders in Georgia have done almost nothing to slow this down. Some even celebrate this kind of development as diversity and enrichment. There is no serious pushback against the creation of separate "religious" systems that operate by their own rules and teach children Islamic laws instead of full assimilation into American culture. This is what happens when politicians turn a blind eye, or quietly help, while Islam builds permanent footholds in our communities. We are not just seeing different beliefs. We are seeing the steady Islamization of parts of Georgia through organized expansion, separate institutions, and the raising of a new generation inside this system. How much bigger does this have to get before anyone in power decides to actually protect Georgia’s culture and identity?

Amy Mek

242,999 views • 1 month ago