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Woke up to the news that activist and co-author Ahmad Mammadli has been arrested under false accusations by the regime in #Azerbaijan🇦🇿... Ironically, we had written this piece together for @ispionline.bsky.social on the regime's repression of democratic movements www.ispionline.it/en/publicati...

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brill.com/view/journal... [new article, paywalled] 'Struggling for Attraction: Sources of Turkish and Iranian Soft Power in Azerbaijan', by Fatma Asli Kelkitli

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Today, researcher & @charlesuni.cuni.cz PhD candidate Bahruz Samadov is spending 30th birthday behind bars in Azerbaijan, where critical scholarly work is criminalized, labeled as treason. There shld be more academic voices demanding Bahruz's freedom. #FreeBahruz www.psapopulism.org/blog/news/fr...

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careers.chathamhouse.org/jobs/5874896... Chatham House is looking for a new Programme Director on Europe and Russia, deadline 26 May 2025 @chrussiaeurasia.bsky.social @chathamhouse.org

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We are proud to share the CFP for ASIAC 2025📕: After last year's success, yet again at Università Ca' Foscari Venezia. Theme: "Knowledge Production about Central Asia and the Caucasus". Please send papers, panels and from this year posters and visual contributions. www.asiac.net/eventi/xix-a...

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The trial of @hbs-south-caucasus.bsky.social partner @smdov.bsky.social has begun in Baku. He never had access to any classified information, yet faces 20 years in prison on fabricated treason charges. "How can I pass on a state secret that I don't have?" www-meydan-tv.translate.goog/az/article/b...

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So much going on in the world that this commentary didn't get enough attention @zaurshiriyev.bsky.social on the importance of seizing the moment for an Armenia-Azerbaijan peace deal "Without peace, Baku risks mistaking short-term leverage for lasting influence." carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...

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brill.com/view/journal... [new article, paywalled] 'Exodus by Choice: Voluntariness in Ethnic Migration Sagas', by Ilkin Huseynli @ilkinmetdan.bsky.social

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Here’s the English version of my article on why the Armenian-Azerbaijani peace treaty must be finalized ASAP before the window of opportunity closes: carnegieendowment.org/russia-euras...

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newmag.am/en/post/brok... This week the Armenian version of a new anthology about the Second Karabakh War, edited by Vicken Cheterian, will be presented in Yerevan. I contributed a chapter on post-war diplomacy. English version out later this year, some info here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/44day-war...

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Azerbaijan and Turkey, very close allies, are in a rare public dispute after Turkey and Armenia agreed to temporarily open their border for Armenian humanitarian aid shipments to Syria.

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bakuresearchinstitute.org/en/speaking-... Why the imprisonment of young Azerbaijani scholar Bahruz Samadov matters for both academic freedom and peace - our op-ed for the Baku Research Institute.

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Just received in the mail from the US, here are first copies of my wife's book of short stories translated into English. I'm definitely proud.

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In an ‘unprecedented’ interview with Turkish media, Pashinyan discussed Armenia–Turkey relations, the ongoing trial of Armenian prisoners in Azerbaijan, and the Armenia–Azerbaijan peace negotiations. oc-media.org/pashinyan-sp...

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You can download my forthcoming article here. It's about voluntariness in the 1989 village exchange between Azerbaijanis from Gizil-Shafag and Armenians from Karkanj. philpapers.org/rec/HUSEBC

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1 A really positive step forward in Armenian-Azerbaijani peace talks… but we shouldn’t expect a signing ceremony and peace in our time soon. Some inaccurate reporting out there, this piece ooks to me objective and accurate oc-media.org/armenia-and-...

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Armenia-Azerbaijan normalization talks: Today saw a potentially significant development in the reports that the text of a long-awaited normalization agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan has been completed, according to an announcement by the Azerbaijani MFA, also confirmed by the Armenian MFA.

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oc-media.org/armenia-and-... This is a developing story with a lot still to be confirmed, but potentially highly significant. If true, it suggests Baku & Yerevan have opted for prudence in sealing an agreement before potentially major global/regional realignments cascade into the Caucasus.

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www.bbc.com/russian/arti... An interesting article for @bbcrussian.bsky.social by Andrey Kozenko + Magerram Zeynalov on new fiction, memoir and film by Armenians and Azerbaijanis about the Karabakh conflict.

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It was a real treat to listen to @vhtroyansky.bsky.social speaking about his landmark study ‘Empire of Refugees’, published last year. His research makes a tremendous contribution to understanding the nexus between Russian & Ottoman imperial power & the mobility of Muslim populations. Recommended!

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Russian imperialism didn’t start in 2022, nor is it confined to Ukraine. My new book analyses the Kremlin’s long shadow—past and present. Out on 24 April.

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brill.com/view/journal... [new article, paywalled] 'Dagestani Complementary and Alternative Medicine Practitioners on the Move: From the Post-Soviet Era to the Covid-19 Pandemic', by Evgenia Zakharova & Evgeny Firsov #Caucasus #Dagestan

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link.springer.com/epdf/10.1057... New, open access article from the always impressive @jlaporte.bsky.social: 'Profiting from prestige: the political economy of mega-events in #Azerbaijan'

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www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer... Opening for a lecturer in Eurasian Studies at Glasgow University, deadline 3 March

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Call for papers: Workshop "Power, place and knowledge: Intellectuals, scholars and epistemologies of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict" of the Araz network, July 9–11, co-convened by Fellow 2019/20 Altay Goyushov www.c-r.org/news-and-ins...

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www.c-r.org/news-and-ins... Call for papers, workshop on “Power, place and knowledge: Intellectuals, scholars and epistemologies of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict”, deadline for abstract submission 3 March. Details in link.

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mediamax.am/en/news/inte... Interview with @gabrielgavin.bsky.social about his new book about the fall of Mountainous Karabakh, Ashes of our Fathers

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An in-depth study of Russian attitudes towards Turkey’s role in the South Caucasus. With regard to Ankara, the Kremlin has adopted what might be termed “flexibility in opportunism”. www.cats-network.eu/publication/...

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wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews... This is a great review of Akram Aylisli's early work 'People and Trees', by Olga Zilberbourg. I am reading and greatly enjoying 'People and Trees' right now, it is a beautifully written and translated window into the world of rural Azerbaijan in the 1940s.

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www.google.com/url?q=https:... If you are in Paris on 14 January, there will be a panel discussion entitled “The Armenia-Azerbaijan Negotiations in 2025: Regional and Domestic Developments and the Prospects for Normalization” (details in link), in which I will be participating.

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caucasuswatch.de/en/news/arme... By the end of last month nearly 4400 Karabakh Armenians had applied for Armenian citizenship. Concerns over whether acquiring citizenship negates repatriation + restitution rights remain high among refugees from Mountainous Karabakh.

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caucasuswatch.de/en/news/azer... Azerbaijan reports robust economic growth, with GDP growing by 4.7% Jan-Sept 2024 per the ADB. Projected growth in 2025 is 5.3%.

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www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ashes-of-o... The Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict always stood out for the totality of ethnic cleansing, culminating in the mass forced displacement of Karabakh Armenians in September 2023. @gabrielgavin.bsky.social has written the first book-length study of what happened.

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brill.com/view/journal... This new article by Mikayel Zolyan, 'The Story of “Ararat-73”: Football and National Identity in Late Soviet Armenia', is a terrific read on the sport/nationalism nexus in the late Soviet Union. Recommended! #Armenia

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🎟📚Author event! Join @gabrielgavin.bsky.social for a discussion about his new book, #AshesOfOurFathers: Inside the Fall of #NagornoKarabakh, based on years of reporting from the front line. 📍Armenian Institute 🗓30th January ⏰6.45 GMT Book your ticket here! ➡️ tinyurl.com/rrkc3thh

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In this episode of our department’s podcast, UCL Uncovering Politics, I talk about how present beliefs may shape how people remember historical violence—in the context of Ukraine. Based on research with Kit Rickard, John O’Loughlin & @critgeopolitics.bsky.social. Hosted by @alanrenwick.bsky.social.

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UK: "In light of ongoing events, the UK will immediately suspend all programme support to the Georgian gov't, restrict defence cooperation, and limit engagement with representatives of GD gov't until there is a halt to this move away from European democratic norms and freedoms".

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