Armenia and the information war

[ninetoyadome]

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Does anyone know if the European Court of Human Rights has made a decision on the Sargsyan v. Azerbaijan and Chiragov and others v. Armenia cases?

The hearing was on September 15.

[Federate]

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Does anyone know if the European Court of Human Rights has made a decision on the Sargsyan v. Azerbaijan and Chiragov and others v. Armenia cases?

The hearing was on September 15.

Did a quick search and there appears to be no verdict yet.

[Federate]

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This is perfect, now Armenians can directly challenge the Azerbaijani leadership on YT.
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Azerbaijani president's official video channel begins operating on YouTube
28 September 2010 [18:30] - Today.Az


Given the global technological development and increasing importance of the Internet, the official website of the President of Azerbaijan constantly presents new opportunities to network users.

Over recent months, the site design has been updated upon the latest technologies, the version of the site for schoolchildren has been prepared. Also the official website of the President of Azerbaijan began operating on the popular social networking site Twitter.

For İPhone users, a special platform of the site has been created and many new features have been added.

Given the importance of multimedia in a dynamic information space, the official video channel of Azerbaijani President began operating on YouTube, which was achieved through an official agreement with this popular site. Among CIS countries, the official video channels on YouTube are only available for Russian and Azerbaijani presidents.

The difference between a regular user of video channels and presidential video channel is that the design of the page of the video channel of the Azerbaijani President is fully integrated with the design of the official website of the president, and also all restrictions on the size and duration of the video have been eliminated.

Videotapes of speeches of the Azerbaijani President, his meetings, receptions, interviews and events involving the president can be viewed on the video channel.

Negotiations are continuing between the Presidential Administration and YouTube. Large-scale projects are expected to be realized in cooperation with YouTube.

The video channel can be viewed either from the President's official website (www.president.az), or directly by visiting the page www.youtube.com/presidentaz


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URL: http://www.today.az/news/politics/74202.html

[ninetoyadome]

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he also has a twitter account apparently.

Azerbaijan’s You Tube Presidency
September 28, 2010 - 3:19pm
Tamada Tales Azerbaijan Bloggers
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev is showing himself to be quite a social-networker, even though his administration has a reputation for taking a tough line against citizens who express dissenting political opinions on the Internet.

Aliyev recently launched his own You Tube channel. Azerbaijani news services have noted that Aliyev’s channel is not subject to You Tube’s usual time restrictions, in which videos are not supposed to run longer than 10 minutes. A clip showing the Azerbaijani leader addressing the UN General Assembly earlier this September, for example, clocks in at just over 13 minutes.

Aliyev also started a feed on the social-networking site Twitter in early July. So far, the president is a moderate user to the micro-message platform, with less than 100 “tweets” overall. As of September 28, he had 736 followers on Twitter.

In addition, the president has an iPhone app for his official presidential website.
While making his own use of social networks to air political opinions, Aliyev’s administration apparently takes a dim view of private citizens in Azerbaijan who try to do the same. Azerbaijan has come under OSCE criticism in recent years for its restrictive media policies.

Perhaps the starkest symbol of the government’s intolerance of dissent was the 2009 trial of Azerbaijani bloggers Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli. The pair was convicted of hooliganism following a controversial trial. They maintained the case against them was politically motivated , citing the fact that, shortly before their arrest, they posted a video on You Tube that satirized Aliyev and his government.

edit: Just like azeris, they dont allow people to comment on there pages. im thinking about adding him as a friend, lol.

[Federate]

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Found Aliyev's Twitter account http://twitter.com/presidentaz

[ninetoyadome]

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Found Aliyev's Twitter account http://twitter.com/presidentaz

who knew so much BS could be spread on twitter? instead of the name being presidentaz it should be anti-Armenian propaganda.

[ninetoyadome]

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Just a heads up guys apparently the documentary "A story of people in war and peace" will be aired on PBS on October 24.

PBS to air two Armenian documentaries
Published: Thursday October 14, 2010


Filmmaker Vardan Hovhannisyan.

YEREVAN - Two top Armenian documentaries - both award-winning human stories - will be shown on public television in the US over the next two Sundays.

On Sunday October 17, Public Television stations around the country will show "The Last Tightrope Dancer in Armenia," a warm, thoughtful, beautifully-shot story about the dying art of tightrope dancers, and the continuing competition and camaraderie between two old masters, and the hopes they place on one young artist.

On Sunday October 24, the same public television stations will screen "A Story of People in War and Peace," a passionate film that follows the lives of soldiers and nurses who spent years in the trenches during the Karabakh war. The film has already screened on BBC, ARTE and other international channels, and has won over 20 awards including the FIPRESCI (International Federation of Film Critics) prize. For its director, Vardan Hovhannisyan, the film also garnered a Best New Documentary Filmmaker Prize at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York.

"The Last Tightrope Dancer" is the acclaimed work of two young filmmakers -- Inna Sahakyan and Arman Yeritsyan. Both have produced several documentaries over the last decade. Sahakyan has directed more than 10 social documentaries for Armenian television and worked as assistant director on "A Story of People in War and Peace." Yeritsyan has directed a number of award-winning documentaries including,"Under the Open Sky" and "Goodbye Fellini."

Both films are produced by Bars Media, which was established by Vardan Hovhannisyan in 1993. Bars Media specializes in making documentaries about human stories, culture, history and other social issues. The studio currently develops documentary films in Africa, Russia and Afghanistan.

The Public Television showings on October 17 and 24 offer a unique opportunity for the Armenian-American public and the public at large to enjoy these excellent productions. Both films have English subtitles.

Information about cities and airing time at: http://www.pbs.org/itvs/globalvoices/guide.html

[ninetoyadome]

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the dog barks again

http://news.az/articles/politics/24723

i seriously feel sad that these idiot azeris actually believe this bullxxxx. then they try and act smart but dont know what they claim is total and complete bullxxxx.

[ninetoyadome]

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Sargsyan is a genious, he gave a speech today and he talked about azerbaijan

Indeed, anti-Armenian fascism is getting momentum in Azerbaijan; it is being executed purposefully and on the highest level. It is not about individual crooks or sick persons suffering from nationalism who can be neglected. We are speaking about the state ideology, according to which “contemporary Armenia was created on historical Azeri land.” That is to say, not only Artsakh but also Yerevan, Sevan, Saint Echmiadzin are “historical Azeri lands.” Hence, according to this logic and in this context, Artsakh becomes a part of so called “historical Azerbaijani lands.” Last time, we ‘learned’ about it yesterday, from the President of Azerbaijan himself.

Why this extreme jingoistic position has been articulated particularly now? Azerbaijan is staggered and infuriated that the international community and the Presidents of the Co-Chair states publicly recognize the right of the people of Artsakh for self-determination. Moreover, free expression of will of the people of Artsakh regarding the political status of Nagorno Karabakh and its results must have binding legal consequences for all parties. This is the very reason for Azerbaijan’s desperate convulsions. They have not prepared their own people for such outcome, and judging from their rhetoric, are not going to.

It is quite clear that the resolution of Artsakh’s problem must be found exclusively through peaceful negotiations. Today, the entire world rules out military solutions, and only Azerbaijan, according to their own words, “does not exclude military solution of the problem.” Is this assertion for internal use only? Probably. But what good does it make to the internal consumers of this assertion, i.e. to the people of Azerbaijan or foreign investors? In Azerbaijan academic humanitarian sciences have become the generators of bellicose proclamations. It’s hard to tell where science ends and puppet show starts.

In case of Artsakh, the “argument” is set forth that some of local toponyms are Azerbaijani (they could at least say ‘Turkish’ or ‘Persian’) and not Armenian. How a settlement could have an Azerbaijani name 200-300 years ago? An entire generation, which tomorrow “shall heroically liberate historical Azerbaijani land”, was educated on this kind of ‘scientific arguments’. That generation will not be allowed to learn that the Armenian toponym for the region – Artsakh was evidenced back in VIII century BC, evidenced by Sarduri II, the son of the founder of Yerevan King Argishti I; and that in I century BC, it was known to the foreign geographers, as Strabon puts it, as “Artsakh province of Armenia,” which had the largest cavalry forces; and that modern Stepanakert was built on the grounds of the Armenian settlement Varakan established in the V century; and that it is a genuine Armenian name which means “Squirmy brook”; and that for centuries the population of the area was homogeneous, populated exclusively by Armenians, which is confirmed also by the 18th century official Turkish sources. Only in the second half of the 18th century, negligible amount of Turkic Muslim nomadic tribes settled here, whose total number at the beginning of the last century hardly reached five percent of the entire population. That generation will never learn that in thousands historical manuscripts, which narrate about Artsakh and its courageous people, word “Azerbaijan” does not exist, couldn’t exist. That word appeared for the first time ever only a hundred years ago, I repeat – only a hundred years ago.

Moreover, in one of his statements, the President of Azerbaijan says that toponym Stepankert exists only because of the name of the “bandit” Stepan Shahumian. One day, the generation which is going “to liberate Azerbaijani land” will turn to its leaders and ask – shouldn’t the student of one of the most prestigious Moscow Universities have been aware of the fact that at the same time the leader of Azerbaijan Heidar Alieyv, accompanied by the storm of applause, voiced the following thought that “the noble personality of Stepan Shahumian is an inspiring example for all generations of Azerbaijani workers”, “And today we state proudly and lovingly (the then leader of Azerbaijan was speaking on behalf of the people of Azerbaijan) that Stepan Shahumian is also the son of the Azerbaijani people.” That’s what Heidar Alieyv said.

Sick fantasies resulted in claiming that Christian churches of Artsakh – Amaras, Gandzasar, are Azerbaijani. Furthermore, they were the first in the world to adopt Christianity. To Turkey they present their new slogan “One nation, two states”, i.e. the Turks and the Azeris are the same people living in two states. Five minutes later, Azeris claim that they are not Turks, or rather were not Turks: used to be Aghvans, used to write books which didn’t reach present days because all those manuscripts were burned by the Armenians; they were Aghvans and built masterpieces of Christian architecture that were expropriated by the Armenians, and finally they changed their language and became Turks. Later, world’s first Christian-Aghvan-Azeris changed their faith and became the most faithful Muslims of the world. Simultaneously, they are promoting the idea that they are direct descendants of the Mar people, who spoke Persian, and are lawful owners of Iran’s Atrpatakan region.

Switch of languages, nationalities and beliefs is their own business; but manifestations of anti-Armenian fascism are our business.

Azerbaijan unleashed the war, and was defeated in that war; Azerbaijan asked for truce (including from the Commander of Karabakh’s forces) and later started to sob about the dire repercussions of that war. As if wars ever bring pleasant repercussions. And on top of that, Azerbaijan adopted conceited stance and started to make demands as if anywhere in the world defeated aggressors are ever allowed to make demands.

To save their faces, Azeris are resorting to quasi-rhetoric that the Armenians won the war with the assistance of another country. No surprise here, how else can they explain the crushing defeat from a small number of Armenians? But they still have no guts to state officially what country or countries they talk about. Spell it. Spell it, so that it can be proved by the facts that you’re lying. What keeps you silent? Now they have decided that Armenia cannot exist on her own and has no future. They feed themselves with these fairytales and got really stunned that the world has quite a different view on a number of issues.

In conclusion, I would like to share with you results of a study recently conducted by the scientists. A large group of genetics and linguists, all of them non-Armenians, has conducted an intricate and lengthy research. According to the latest results, the Armenian language is at least 8000 years old. It means that as a nation we have been around for the last 8000 years. During those 8000 years many have been trying to teach us things from the position of a larger territory, a larger population, and a larger purse. It’s true that at some points they were able to weaken us, but today the absolute majority of them are extinct; they left the stage of history. As for us, we continue our way, calm and confident because we have things to do for the next 8000 years at least.

Thank you, and welcome to Motherland.

http://news.am/eng/news/34810.html

[ninetoyadome]

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Armenian president 'forgets' Saddam Hussein's fate
Tue 19 October 2010 05:51 GMT | -2:51 Local Time
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Elkhan Polukhov
Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry has come out on the attack to dismiss criticism from Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan.
Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesman Elkhan Polukhov referred to former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein as an example of what could happen to the leader of a country that invades another.
"Statements about the democratic development of the country sound at the very least cynical coming from the political leadership of Armenia, who are responsible for ethnic cleansing, terror, the barbaric treatment of servicemen’s bodies and cruelty towards civilians," Polukhov told Day.Az.
He was responding to criticism of Azerbaijan made by Serzh Sargsyan at a meeting with journalists from the Armenian diaspora yesterday.
Sargsyan said that "anti-Armenian fascism is gaining momentum in Azerbaijan; it is being executed deliberately and at the highest level".

Polukhov responded: "Unfortunately, the Armenian leadership is unable to distinguish today’s realities and is trying through different types of insinuation to legitimize the ethnic cleansing and occupying policy that it is conducting against Azerbaijan. It seems that the Armenian leadership does not understand or accept the essence of the Helsinki Final Act, or the essence of resolutions adopted by the UN Security Council, which clearly recognize the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan. Should we list the great number of international documents and statements that support the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan? The Armenian side knows them all well."
"Unfortunately, the Armenian side does not understand that the world has long since distanced itself from the definitions the Armenian leadership is attempting to use. The mere statement that there has never been a case in the world of the losing party dictating terms to the winner costs much," he said. He was referring to Sargsyan's comment that "defeated aggressors", as the Armenian president termed Azerbaijan, do not dictate terms to the winner.
"The Armenian president seems to have forgotten what happened to Saddam Hussein who also turned his back on reality when he went to occupy Kuwait. Everyone knows what became of that warrior," the spokesman said.

"Today the world has no other point of view than recognition of the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan and this is just a matter of time. Therefore, the Armenian leadership should better prepare its people and the diaspora for the inevitable. As for the right to self-determination, the Azerbaijani side stated and states that it recognizes the right of the Azerbaijani and Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh to self-determination within the framework of the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan which complies with the norms of international law," Polukhov said.

Day.Az

this guy doesnt even know what hes talking about