Comparing Azerbaijan with developed countries, many of us ask the question, “Why is it so different here?” Most Azerbaijanis are convinced that Western democracy can be easily introduced in our country. In their opinion, all it takes is for the government to change and for a new political elite that will care about the people to come to power.
Most peoples have a historically shaped idea of their place and role, their mission in this world. From time immemorial, Orthodoxy, the Great Russian idea, coupled with the belief that "Moscow is the third Rome" has been the cornerstone of all-Russian identity. Japan is still loyal to the samurai traditions, which coexists with a craving for scientific and technological progress and modernization. In the Chinese mind, Confucianism has historically dominated as a cultural and philosophical teaching combined with strict hierarchical thinking and the belief that the Celestial Empire is the center of the Universe.
The design showed the main Armenian settlements in the mountainous part of Karabakh, but there were some important exceptions in the plan that did not satisfy the Armenians. In the initial border design, a number of Armenian villages, the city of Shusha and its surrounding villages were not included in the borders of the autonomy.
Foreign Minister of Kyrgyzstan Ruslan Kazakbaev met with Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Jeikhun Bairamov on the sidelines of the meeting of the CIS Foreign Ministers Council on April 2 in Moscow.
March 31, commemorated in the Republic of Azerbaijan as the Day of Genocide of Azerbaijanis, reflects the memory of the bloody massacre committed against Azerbaijanis in March 1918.
Turkey’s strategic victory in Nagorno-Karabakh will not help it to achieve a sustainable future within its neighborhood.
In an exclusive interview, the scholar of the “lost” Iravani Khanate, Amir Ali SardariIravani, reveals a rich history of a society marked by a peaceful coexistence between Christians and Muslims which has been all but erased from the understanding of the region by the subsequent and victorious governments.
The “Declaration of Independence” of May 28, 1918, which proclaimed the establishment of an independent state in Azerbaijan, stated that Azerbaijan was the first democratic, parliamentary republic in the Turkic and Muslim world, and in the entire East in general. 97,300 km2 of the territory of Azerbaijan were undisputed, and 16,600 km2 were disputed with Armenia and Georgia (Mahmudov, 2004, p. 12).
Ahmad Obali, the founder of the popular U.S.-based Azeri-language television station Günaz TV, tells Ynet in an interview about the oppression the Azeri minority suffers under the Islamic Republic and its warm attitude toward Israel.