Bahruz Samadov
@smdov.bsky.social
Researcher focused on Azerbaijan, authoritarianism, nationalism. Post-structuralist, into Lacan, Laclau, Derrida, Zizek. Currently doing PhD in Political Science at Charles University in Prague.
Many Ukrainians used to enthusiastically support Azerbaijan during the Second Karabakh War, seeing it in very simple terms.
MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦@maks23.bsky.social · 2y ago🇦🇿🥴 Putin arrived in Azerbaijan ❗️One of the items on the agenda of the bilateral meeting is the supply of Russian gas to Azerbaijan. This is, in fact, an open discussion of the possible circumvention of sanctions.
Good analysis. Taliban brought security to the Afghan people - one of the tenets of their legitimacy claim
Lawfare@lawfaremedia.org · 2y agoWilliam 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.
#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…
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 the London School of Economics and Political…
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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 and guided by the peerless @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.
New York judge rules RFK Jr. will not appear on state ballot
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.
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“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
Elia Ayoub (he/him) (@ayoub@spore.social)
#gaza: Another headless corpse of a child whose only crime was being born into a caged population of untermenschen being collectively punished by a genocidal regime backed by the west and the arab dic...
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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
Как иранский Азербайджан чуть не стал «новой территорией» СССР: отрывок из книги Михаила Крутихина «Иранские агенты Кремля»
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.
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"For Benjamin and Adorno, thinking had to be a melancholic science, a work of mourning with no finality or purging of the dead, in concert with a history of unspeakable atrocities. What would make writing praxis? Benjamin spoke of writing as a writing of the ruin, rescuing the luminous fragments
This a great article, check it out - everything you need to know about Azerbaijan
Heather Randell@heatherrandell.bsky.social · 2y agoAzerbaijan, an authoritarian petro-state that recently engaged in ethnic cleansing of Armenians, is hosting this year’s UN climate talks. What could possibly go wrong?!? 🎁 link: www.nytimes.com/2024/08/02/c...
“The Kremlin is also releasing dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza as part of the agreement, a European official said on condition of anonymity.”
A cider maker? 😉 A car full of apples in Azerbaijan just west of the Tien Shan mountains. Photographer David Fiekle #cider #apples #Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan has what Rumelili describes as 'peace anxiety'.
European News@eunews.social · 2y agoEU pushing for final Armenia-Azerbaijan peace deal after talks stall The two sides held previously unreported talks earlier this month, officials exclusively told POLITICO.
@anadoluagency: ❝The martyrdom of brother Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran will strengthen the deep and unbreakable bond between the Islamic Republic of Iran and dear Palestine and the Resistance❞ • The Iranian Foreign Ministry confirms the death of Ismail Haniyeh, head of the Hamas group, stressing that i
I read recently an article which claims that Trumpism is metapopulist. Basically it makes "the people" inclusive (there are good immigrants) and exclusive (there are bad immigrants) at the same time. So it's not authoritarian in a strict sense. I think that play makes Trumpism strong and appealing
Thomas Zimmer@thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2y agoThis ideology of “real Americanism” is crucial: It provides the foundation for the Right’s anti-democratic radicalization, forms the basis of its normalization in mainstream political discourse, and helps explain why the response to the authoritarian threat has been lacking.
🚨 Riots in New Caledonia expose an emerging France-Azerbaijan rivalry. Discover the historical context, geopolitical stakes, and what this means for the future: www.ryanjhite.com/2024/07/30/n... #NewCaledonia #France #Azerbaijan #Geopolitics
New Caledonia Riots: Uncovering the France-Azerbaijan Rivalry
Explore the recent riots in New Caledonia and the surprising involvement of Azerbaijan. Understand the historical context, the geopolitical implications, and what this emerging France-Azerbaijan rivalry means for the future.
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#COP29 host Azerbaijan is failing to tackle its flaring of methane, the most potent greenhouse gas According to Global Witness analysis of satellite data, flaring emissions have risen 10% since Baku last submitted emissions data to the UN www.ft.com/content/3747...
UN climate summit host Azerbaijan fails to tackle flaring, analysis shows
BP and Socar among culprits, according to satellite data examined by campaign group
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Another reason to hate Stalinism. All her life she was fighting against nationalists and then she was detained as a nationalist just like many other bright communists (some of them were national - but never nationalist) who simply didn't like Stalinism that much
She was a very brave woman of her time. Coming from a famous Karabakh khan family, she was against the feodal oppression and accepted the Bolshevik revolution and played her role in the early women's movement in Azerbaijan.
'Bahruz Samadov, a researcher at Charles University in Prague, argues that the Aliyev government instrumentalizes the anti-colonial narrative for authoritarian purposes by focusing solely on France’s colonial history while ignoring the colonial past of ... its close partner Britain.'
Euractiv@euractiv.com · 2y agoAzerbaijan intensifies anti-colonial rhetoric targeting France
Hey! Here is my new article about the BRICSisation of #Azerbaijan - the country joins the authoritarian club; also, I wrote about the discourse of #multipolarity. www.ips-journal.eu/topics/forei...
One more to join the BRICS?
While favouring both China and Russia, Azerbaijan remains aloof from democracy and human rights - more so than ever before
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Recently talked to @ocmedia.bsky.social about performative anti-colonialism in #Azerbaijan oc-media.org/podcasts/pod...
Podcast | Is Azerbaijan a champion of anti-colonialism?
Bahruz Samadov talks about Azerbaijan’s ‘performative’ support of anti-colonial movements in French overseas territories.
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More people are going to leave x/twitter after the hiding like update (most probably soon the ability to see who likes a certain post will be available for premium subscribers). Elon is going to ruin twitter wasn't a jok
It's c. +35C in Baku in afternoon. I enjoy summers here and I'm really attached to my native city
“After the West’s criticism of the September military operation in Nagorno #Karabakh, the West is antagonised in the public discourse,” Bahruz Samadov, a PhD candidate at Charles University who examines authoritarian practices in #Azerbaijan #cop29 www.euractiv.com/section/azer...
Azerbaijan's civil society crackdown intensifies ahead of COP29
As Baku prepares to host COP29, the largest international climate summit, the Azerbaijani government has ramped up its crackdown on the remaining vestiges of its civil society.
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Bahruz Samadov, a political, said that #Azerbaijan’s implementation of projects was a show of ‘nationalist developmentalism’ meant to overshadow its former #Armenian administration. ‘There is no inclusivity in such historiographical practice...' Read the rest here oc-media.org/azerbaijan-t...
Azerbaijan to settle Stepanakert in September
President Aliyev announced the move during a meeting with residents resettled in Khojali.
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