country:azerbaijan

Deux sujets d’Arte sur Bakou et l’Azerbaïdjan, il y a un an, à l’occasion de l’Eurovision.

Bakou : une ville en plein essor, coûte que coûte
http://videos.arte.tv/fr/videos/bakou-une-ville-en-plein-essor-coute-que-coute--6668106.html

Azerbaïdjan : le pétrole - une manne qui ne profite qu’à quelques personnes
►http://videos.arte.tv/fr/videos/azerbaidjan-le-petrole-une-manne-qui-ne-profite-qu-a-quelques-personnes-

Foot -M. Martel reprend le RC Lens (avec Hafiz Mammdov)
http://www.lequipe.fr/Football/Actualites/Martel-reprend-le-fc-lens/378521
Hafiz, qui n’est pas de la famille de Ziya Mammadov, est néanmoins un partenaire de longue date d’Anar Mammadov, fils du ministre des transports (Ziya donc), PDG de ZQan group et de Elton Mammadov (frère de Ziya). Quelle coïncidence, il construit les routes pour le ministère des transports.
http://www.rferl.org/content/azerbaijan-transport-minister-corruption/24947711.html

Gervais... aïe

Donc... il n’y a pas d’alternance à cause de l’opposition, qui est nulle. C’est un conseiller politique du président qui le dit ’Opposition and role in political life of the country : 20 years without updates’ http://www.news.az/articles/politics/80385

il connaît Voltaire s’il-vous-plaît

“You said it well but we must cultivate our garden”. Truism is that the people vote for the actions and commitments rather than for vague promises.

et cela ne changera pas (espère-t-il) d’ici le scrutin électoral, même avec l’intervention de la figure tutélaire Rüstəm İbrahimbəyov.
La peur...
#azerbaijan #azerbaïdjan #présidentielle_2013

La bidouille de l’ambassadeur d’Azerbaïdjan à Bruxelles :
La Poste belge se plaint auprès de l’Azerbaïdjan, qui a prétendu qu’elle avait édité un timbre à la gloire d’Heydar Aliyev.
http://www.rferl.org/content/azerbaijan-belgium-stamp-aliyev-bpost/25003003.html

A representative of Belgium’s postal service (bpost) told RFE/RL the stamp is not an official bpost stamp.

Instead, he said it was issued under a service the company offers called “My Stamp,” which allows customers to commission personalized stamps for a specific event, such as a wedding or birthday.

#azerbaïdjan #azerbaijan #heydar_aliyev #philatélie

De Gladio à Gladio-B, et à al Qaïda
http://www.dedefensa.org/article-de_gladio_gladio-b_et_al_qa_da_28_05_2013.html

Citation et commentaire du 28 mai 2013 – contribution de dedefensa.org

L’Eurovision et les Russes, un nouveau sujet de blagues ?
Global Voices http://globalvoicesonline.org/2013/05/21/laughing-at-russias-eurovision-shooting-spirit

ЕС заявлял о фальсификациях на выборах в России и Беларуси. Лавров и Лукашенко заявили о фальсификации на Евровидении. Шах и мат, европейцы.

The European Union declared voting falsifications in Russia and Belarus. Lavrov and Lukashenko declared falsifications in Eurovision. Checkmate, Europeans.

Après la guerre du football, la guerre de l’Eurovision ? La Russie réclame ses dix points à l’Azerbaïdjan, sinon des « mesures seront prises » dixit S. Lavrov. http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-azerbaijan-eurovision-votes/24993029.html
#azerbaïdjan #eurovision #Benny_Hill

Les dangers d’Internet en Azerbaïdjan
3. Aller en prison, laver les chiottes ET tout le monde l’apprend grâce à... Internet
Photos Of Jailed Azerbaijani Activists Cleaning Toilets Spark Outcry
http://www.rferl.org/content/azerbaijan-activists-toilets/24985873.html

Les musulmans et la charia (étude)

Une majorité des musulmans dans le monde veulent que la charia, la loi islamique, devienne la loi de leur pays, tout en montrant des opinions disparates sur ce qu’elle recouvre, indique aujourd’hui une vaste étude de l’institut Pew. Réalisée de 2008 à 2012 auprès de 38.000 personnes dans 39 pays, elle porte sur le thème de « Religion, politique et société » dans la communauté musulmane, forte de 1,6 milliard d’individus, la deuxième religion au monde après la religion chrétienne.

http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2013/04/30/97001-20130430FILWWW00496-majorite-de-musulmans-pour-la-charia.php

Méthodologie
http://www.pewforum.org/Muslim/the-worlds-muslims-religion-politics-society-appc.aspx

#charia

Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan: Between Russia and the West
http://fpc.org.uk/articles/607

Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan: Between Russia and the West

By Dr Kevork Oskanian.

Since their independence, the three South Caucasian states have come to adopt widely divergent strategic responses to the complex structural realities underlying their region’s security landscape. Following the 2003 Rose Revolution, Georgia became unequivocally pro-Western: the goals of EU and NATO integration were firmly inscribed in two National Security Concepts, adopted in 2006 and 2011, which were recently confirmed in a rare bi-partisan parliamentary resolution uniting the otherwise fractious supporters of President Saakashvili and Prime Minister Ivanishvili.

#caucase #arménie #azerbaidjan #géorgie #russie #europe

INOGATE conference promotes high quality energy statistics

http://www.enpi-info.eu/maineast.php?id_type=1&id=32881&lang_id=450

Espérons que ça ne reste pas qu’un voeu pieux

The impact of energy statistics in policy making was the focus of an international conference on the Strategic Role of Energy Statistics in National and International Policies, held on 23-24 April in Copenhagen.

The conference, organised by the INOGATE Technical Secretariat (ITS) with the support of Statistics Denmark, brought together 50 high-level officials from both the EU and the INOGATE partner countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan). Participants included representatives from the National Statistics Institutes, Ministries and Members of Parliament responsible for policy and decision making in the energy sector as well as media.

#énergie #statistiques #inogate

Azerbaijan at the UPR: Time to cease politically motivated arrests… · Article 19
http://www.article19.org/resources.php/resource/3692/en/azerbaijan-at-the-upr:-time-to-cease-politically-motivated-arrests-and-th

La répression se poursuit en Azerbaïdjan, fermeture de l’université indépendante du mouvement Ol !, arrestation d’un jeune prédicateur populaire. Entre dénonciation d’ingérence américaine et infiltration des mollahs iraniens, un brin de fantaisie et de contradiction. | EurasiaNet.org
http://www.eurasianet.org/node/66808

The March 31 arrest of Bagir-zadeh, the young Shi’a cleric who denounced President Aliyev’s administration in a recent sermon, may be a pivotal moment. The arrest sparked unrest in the militantly Shi’a village of Nardaran, north of Baku and Azerbaijani authorities have tried to use the protest as proof of a pro-Iranian Islamist threat, not least to bolster Western support for Aliyev’s administration. However, many secular intellectuals in Azerbaijan, most of them worlds apart from the Islamists in terms of their values and lifestyles, have expressed support for Bagir-zadeh. The Iranian-incitement hypothesis thus hasn’t been able to gain traction. If authorities continue along this path, the Islamist-tinged opposition to the rule of the President Aliyev may well become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

#azerbaijan #azerbaïdjan #Ol #azad_fikir #iran

EU Neighbourhood Info Centre
http://www.enpi-info.eu/maineast.php?id_type=1&id=32651&lang_id=450

EU-Azerbaijan: domestic issues will impact on relations, Commissioner tells minister

09-04-2013
The climate of EU-Azerbaijan relations has improved, but concerns remain about a number of issues on the domestic political scene, especially freedoms of assembly, expression, and media, Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy Štefan Füle said in Brussels yesterday after a meeting with the Deputy Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan, Mahmud Mammad-Guliyev.

These concerns had been reflected in the recent European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) progress report, he added, recalling the EU’s commitment to strengthen relations with Azerbaijan, as well as the need for frank and continuous exchange of views.

The Commissioner stressed that domestic developments in Azerbaijan do have an impact on EU-Azerbaijani relations – this can be positive or negative but needs to be accepted, he said.

#azerbaidjan #europe #eu

L’agriculture soutient les dictatures (triste titre journalistique)

Attendue courant mars, la décision du gouvernement azerbaïdjanais est tombée : des charolais s’en iront bien paître en 2013 du côté de la mer Caspienne.

La signature du contrat interviendra courant avril, a confirmé l’ambassade d’Azerbaïdjan en France. Et devrait concerner 1.000 spécimens.

http://www.lyonne.fr/yonne/actualite/2013/04/03/1-000-charolais-en-azerbaidjan-1500418.html
VS.

Over the past three years, the government in Baku has spent $23 million importing some 4,500 pedigree cows from Germany and Austria in an effort to improve livestock quality and boost milk production.

“Considering that the government directs budget resources [to buy cattle from abroad] hastily and without any preparation,” Maharramov says, “you can suspect that there were some other intentions in this.”

http://www.rferl.org/content/imported-cows-production-azerbaijan/24776519.html
#azerbaidjan #vaches #agriculture

Une revue du livre de James Marriott et Mika Minio-Paluello, “The Oil Road: Journeys from the Caspian Sea to the City of London” -

The Oil Road: Journeys from the Caspian Sea to the City of London | Counterfire
http://www.counterfire.org/index.php/articles/book-reviews/16385-the-oil-road-journeys-from-the-caspian-sea-to-the-city-of-london

The Oil Road provides an illuminating picture of political and economic power through the form of a travelogue across the countries affected by the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline

Azerbaijan: Azerbaijan and the Council of Europe | The Economist

http://www.economist.com/blogs/charlemagne/2013/03/azerbaijan?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/bl/azerbaijanandthecouncilofeurope

AZERBAIJAN is not really a democracy according to Freedom House, a watchdog. Since the early 1990s, it says, elections have been deeply flawed. Parliament is rubber-stamping the government’s decisions. Corruption is widespread.

In theory only democratic countries can join the Council of Europe (CoE), which promotes human rights. Yet Azerbaijan has been a member since 2001.

#azerbaidjan #caucase

L’Azerbaïdjan peut se permettre de forcer l’OSCE a réduire sa présence dans le pays et se désarmer juste avant les élections.| EurasiaNet.org
“Vafa Guluzadeh, a former government adviser, sees the move as an effort to cut off anticipated OSCE criticism of the upcoming election. In the past, the OSCE has consistently rated Azerbaijan’s elections as not free and unfair.

This is not about current relations. It is about future elections. It is difficult to predict whether the OSCE will recognize the election or not. There may be concern about this, and so they want to transform the OSCE into an obedient structure,”
http://www.eurasianet.org/node/66733
#elections #azerbaïdjan

Livre sur les liens entre pétrole et urbanisme, à part qu’il oublie qu’un quart de la population vit dans des bidonvilles, je lirai le livre de ce monsieur sur l’architecture de Bakou. Oil and urbanism in Baku | Northeastern
http://www.northeastern.edu/news/2012/08/baku
#azerbaïdjan #bakou #architecture

Texte éclairant sur les mauvaises tentations nationalistes de l’opinion publique azérie par un ancien activiste récemment exilé aux USA
http://caucasusedition.net/analysis/hero-or-hear
#azerbaidjan #aylasli #safarov

Contribution de l’Azerbaïdjan au développement des sciences sociales, l’invention de l’AliyevScience
http://www.rferl.org/content/heydar-aliyev-azerbaijan-aliyevscience/24910965.html
#azerbaidjan #wtf #aliyev

Reportage Glamour sur Bakou, la ville comme scène de théâtre de la propagande -
http://howtospendit.ft.com/destinations/20283-baku-to-the-future

Article du journaliste français du Caucase : Azerbaijan : Baku Pursues Cultural Diplomacy in France | EurasiaNet.org
http://www.eurasianet.org/node/66580

Syria’s civil war destabilising the Caucasus - World Socialist Web Site

Une vision un peu décentrée du conflit en Syrie

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/02/18/cauc-f18.html

Syria’s civil war destabilising the Caucasus
By Clara Weiss
18 February 2013

The civil war in Syria is increasingly destabilising the Caucasus. Chechen Islamists fighting against the Kremlin are supporting the Syrian Islamist opposition. Russia fears that an Islamist regime in Damascus would change the whole balance of power in the region. At the same time, ethnic conflicts threaten to spill over from Syria into the southern and northern regions of the Caucasus.

Since the middle of last year, it has been known that the Syrian opposition has included up to 6,000 Chechen Islamists, who have been fighting for national independence from the Russian Federation since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. In August, an air attack on Aleppo led to the death of Gelayev Rustam, the son of a prominent Chechen warlord who had fought for years against the Russian army.

#syrie #caucase

Le projet de gazoduc TANAP semble bien lancé, l’Europe visée en 2019 | Fox Business
http://www.foxbusiness.com/news/2013/02/12/europe-may-receive-gas-from-azerbaijan-by-201
#azerbaidjan #gaz