A very bad night in #Azerbaijan 🇦🇿. Ulviyya Ali and Əhməd Məmmədli, two of the few remaining prominent figures of Azerbaijani civil society, have been arrested by authorities tonight. This looks to be the latest crackdown wave of the #Aliyev regime.

Woke up to the news that activist and co-author Əhməd Məmmədli has been arrested by the regime in #Azerbaijan... Ironically, we had written this piece together for ISPI on the regime's repression of democratic movements… ispionline.it/en/publication…

“To call the region Artsakh is not to endorse all that Armenian politicians have done over the recent three decades, but to affirm the Armenian presence in the land which Baku seeks to erase.” An interesting argument by Prof. Hans Gutbrod

Khnatsakh, Syunik province, southern Armenia on the border with Azerbaijan. Locals here say Azerbaijani troops fire on the village every single night for the past six weeks now. Automatic gunfire starts around 10pm and continues sporadically until 4am.

Speaking Peace to Power bakuresearchinstitute.org/en/speaking-pe…

So excited for this close read and a review of my latest book by prof. Nora Fisher Onar, out with Political Science Quarterly.

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No country, Iran, Israel or otherwise should acquire or retain nuclear weapons … I refer you to Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons ICAN A discriminatory global security regime based on “Some

🎶 🎹 The Kapan International Music Festival will return to the southern Armenian town of Kapan for its third annual edition this summer, featuring a star-studded international lineup and a series of cultural premieres from July 4 to 15. The headline act of this year’s festival

Israel attacked Iran because it feared diplomacy might work. A nuclear deal could lead Iran to be integrated into a new Middle East and allow the United States to pull back from the region. The outcome that would most benefit America is the outcome Israel acted to prevent.

As global politics grow more uncertain, middle powers like Turkey are opting for issue-based partnerships and 'multi-alignment' policies. However, 'the idea that transactionalism is inherently good for middle powers is a delusion,' I argue in this piece: foreignaffairs.com/turkey/turkeys…

Bahruz Samadov is facing up to 16 years in prison on false "treason" charges. He’s on hunger strike. The Azerbaijani regime is destroying the lives of its intellectual youth and silencing everyone. EU and others may keep flirting with Baku, but silence has a cost. #freeBahruz

Bahruz was a researcher at Charles University in Prague when he came to Baku to see his family and was put on trial on treason charges that HRW&Amnesty say are bogus. Now apparently he's lost any hope, tried to kill himself. Is there not a EU power that cares? Nobody says a word

One of the best, bravest, and brightest young scholars of the Caucasus almost lost his life today. I hope, despite the madness all around, media outlets will pay attention to Bahruz Samadov’s unjust imprisonment in Azerbaijan

Today is a dark day for justice. Ilham Aliyev has sentenced a young Azerbaijani scholar, Bahruz Samadov, to 15 years in prison. His crime? He dared to dream of peace. He believed that Armenians and Azerbaijanis—two peoples torn apart by decades of violence and propaganda—could

Art of the ceasefire: U.S. pretends to obliterate Iran's nuclear sites Iran pretends to retaliate Israel pretends to have won

The imprisonment of Bahruz Samadov, the leading voice for peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan, shows that Baku is not committed to the peace process; its diplomacy is performative. Any agreement needs an army of peace activists and researchers like Bahruz to be implemented.

Friday, 11 July 2025 4:00-5:30 p.m. Scholars, Academic Freedom and the Future of Armenian-Azerbaijani Relations Panel Discussion at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient zmo.de/en/events/scho…

They learned it in Nagorno Karabagh while they armed the dictatorship of Azerbaijan. Since the Int’l community didn’t force their hand, they figured they can do it to Palestinians: Amnesty International

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