Many Ukrainians used to enthusiastically support Azerbaijan during the Second Karabakh War, seeing it in very simple terms.
Good analysis. Taliban brought security to the Afghan people - one of the tenets of their legitimacy claim
William Byrd analyzes how the Taliban regime has consolidated power in Afghanistan since 2021, the threats it faces to its control, and how the regime could promote its resilience and longevity.
It is in a relatively strong position, facing just a few potentially serious threats.
#Azerbaijan#Politics British MPs appeal to Azerbaijan government to free detained academic: In letter to Ilham Aliyev, campaigners urge release of Gubad Ibadoghlu after pre-trial process halted indefinitely A group of British MPs have called on the Azerbaijan government to free an academic from…
In letter to Ilham Aliyev, campaigners urge release of Gubad Ibadoghlu after pre-trial process halted indefinitely A group of British MPs have called on the Azerbaijan government to free an academic from the London School of Economics and Political…
Very excited to see the amazing cover for Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination, a (great!) collection of essays I am editing that will appear with @uminnpress.bsky.social@lpennywark.bsky.social!
A New York judge ruled Monday that independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will not appear on the state’s ballot in November after he falsely claimed that he lived at a friend’s house in New York on his qualifying petitions.
The ruling, if upheld, could lead to challenges in other states where his campaign used an address in New York’s suburbs to gather signatures.
They sold it
Sema Yıldız is a Turkish belly dancer and actress, known as the first dancer to perform in the Ottoman era Topkapi palace, as well as for her expertise in Romani dance.
“I used to refuse to make comparisons to the Holocaust bcs I wholeheartedly believed that nothing could be compared to what the Nazis did. I don’t believe that anymore, not just bcs of the daily mass murders, but bcs of how banal evil is in mainstream Israeli discourse.” ~ @ayoub.bsky.social
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How Iranian Azerbaijan Almost Became a "New Territory" of the USSR: Excerpt from Mikhail Krutikhin's book Iranian Agents of the Kremlin
Создание марионеточных «народных республик» с целью их «присоединения» к России — Абхазии, Южной Осетии и «ЛДНР» — не изобретение Путина. Михаил Крутихин в книге «Игра в революцию: Иранские агенты Кремля», вышедшей в издательстве Freedom Letters, рассказывает, как СССР десятилетиями проводил тайную политику в Иране, в результате которой левые и светские силы потерпели крах и после свержения шаха не смогли противостоять исламским аятоллам. Одним из драматичных эпизодов была послевоенная попытка Сталина создать в иранском Азербайджане «советскую республику» и отторгнуть ее от Ирана. The Insider публикует главу из книги.