Armenia and the information war

[Muhaha]

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i didnt know where to add this, stumbled upon it by accident but pretty funny

Man revenge rapes son’s rapist

An Azerbaijani man has come up with an unorthodox way of getting even with a pedophile who raped his son. He tracked down the rapist, sexually assaulted him on camera, and distributed the footage.

While investigating a case of underage pornography distribution, the police of Azeri capital Baku stumbled upon a bewildering case of vigilantism, writes aysor.am news site citing local media reports.

The story began in October 2009 when a 17-year-old Garadag district-dweller lured an unsuspecting eight-year-old boy into his KamAZ truck, beat him up and raped him. A passerby then got into the truck and threatened to make the boy’s misery public, and then raped the boy himself.

Learning about the crime, the victim’s father, along with a group of relatives, tracked down the first rapist and revenge-raped him – all the while filming the event on a camera phone.

The footage was then distributed throughout the Azeri capital, which was how the police learned about the story. Now, both rapists and the vigilante are in custody facing charges of “sexual offences against minors” and “group sexual offence conducted with prior collusion”.

http://rt.com/Top_News/2009-11-14/ma...apes-sons.html

Yeah I came across this too, good stuff, can't really say anything bad about this father. LOL.

[ninetoyadome]

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MSU: Azerbaijan gives a false color to history; Armenia doesn't

To determine how impartial text-books are in use at the colleges of the former soviet republics, the specialists of the Moscow State University have conducted a survey. An investigation showed that only Armenia and Belarus have unbiased view on history while others give a false color to it.

Results of the survey of the text-books were released by the New Region – Moscow edition.

It was found out that almost all the latter-day historians set down an ancient origin to their peoples as well as some extra mission.

“It sometimes sounds like a joke, or an anecdote. The Balts, for example, are studying the ethnicity of the ancient man while Azerbaijani scientists say have common origin with the Sumerians,” said in paper.

Besides, this ‘new history’ says whom the certain territories belong to. “Azerbaijani text-books say Armenia was founded on Georgian land. Georgian text-books, in its turn, say some Russian, Turkish and Azerbaijani territories are Georgian in origin.

The Ukrainian text-books cover no less interesting “facts’. They say, the Ukrainians have founded Rome and Troy, and all world languages have its origin in grand-Ukrainian. Among other things is the view on the reasons and all of the World War II. Text-books of Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova, and the Baltic states say that exactly Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact caused the war while both USSR and Germany are to blame for this.

The enemy image has been added to everything else: Russia in these books is a centuries-old oppressor, colonialist, robber, freedom-killer, and so on.

“We have been surprised when studied these text-books,” said Assistant Professor of National History Department of the Moscow State University, Andrey Shadrin. “We knew the books had nationalistic handling but the surprise was that this only was a covering party for the real ideology of the ruling elites of these states. The books contain the readings on the ‘sovereignty and independence – the most important and sacred values’ while the idea is that these states’ ideology is to find a patron in exchange for independence and national dignity.”

http://www.aysor.am/en/news/2009/12/03/history-armenia-azerbaijan/

what a shock azerbaijan lies in its history books, who knew

[ninetoyadome]

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all i can say is WOW. we have a best seller here

Book prepared by popular website Day.Az about Armenia's aggressive policy presented in Baku (PHOTOS)
03.12.2009 20:33


The book titled "Path to Nowhere: The trap of illusions" published by Day.Az information portal was presented at Hyatt Regency Hotel on Dec. 3.

The presentation ceremony was attended by more than 50 guests, including the representatives of the Presidential Administration, MPs, outstanding public and political figures of the country, as well as representatives of foreign diplomatic missions.

"This is the first such initiative by Day.Az. Our book contains articles over the last year. This is our contribution to exposing the aggressive policy of Armenia. We believe that with its activities, Day.Az should help expose the occupation policy of official Yerevan all over the world. In their materials, our authors expose the false propaganda of the political establishment of Armenia, the Armenian diasporas," the Director of Day.Az information portal Ilgar Huseynov said, making an opening speech.

Later, making a speech before the guests, Huseynov also spoke about future plans.

"Currently the work of the English version of Day.Az - Today.Az is being improved and a new version is being formed. In addition, early next year we plan to launch an information portal in Azeri. The team of Day.Az are patriots of Azerbaijan who are prepared to make their contribution to gaining victory in information war," he said.

Day.Az has always positioned itself as an initiative agency, has always acted with interesting ideas, the sector head of the Presidential Administration Fuad Akhundov said in his speech.

"The role of Day.Az in presenting to the world public the truth about Azerbaijan is irreplaceable," Akhundov said.

Day.Az takes a particular place in the information war, MP Ganira Pashayeva said in her speech.

"One of the biggest problems faced by Azerbaijan was the information blockade. Despite the fair position of Azerbaijan, as a result of activities of the Armenian lobby, Armenia gained an advantage in the information war. In this regard, the Azerbaijani media, especially those published in different languages, face great targets," said Pashayeva.

According to MP, one of the carriers of this mission was the Day.Az. portal

"Day.Az plays an important role in presenting to the attention of the world public the truth about Nagorno-Karabakh, the aggressive policy of Armenia. The English version of Day.Az also successfully copes with its mission. Combining these articles in the book is very important to get familiarized with the aggressive policy of Armenia. The book should be available in virtual space, Wikipedia and other sources. It is important to disseminate it widely. Due to this book, many people can learn the truth about Azerbaijan, the aggressive policy of Armenia," said the MP.

The book "Path to Nowhere: The trap of illusions" is a contribution in presenting to the attention of the world public the truth about Azerbaijan, said MP Gultakin Hajiyeva.

"The role of the book in combating Armenian propaganda is great. Being abroad, I observed that the Russian-speaking population of Azerbaijan press give great preference to Day.Az. It can be called the mirror of Azerbaijan. This website circulates news, events occurring in the country and their development," said Hajiyeva.

Day.Az is the largest online resource of Azerbaijan, said MP Asim Mollazade.

"Day.Az plays an important role in bringing to the attention of the world community the truth about Azerbaijan, the truth about the aggression against Azerbaijan. One of the successes of the portal is the collaboration with a number of search engines and there is a need to promote this cooperation," said Mollazade.

According to MP Havva Mammadova, there is a need for websites like Day.Az in order to bring the truth about the aggressive policy of Armenia to the attention of world public.

Most of the people who daily visit the site are foreign readers, said MP Aydin Mirzazade.

"Information collected in this book is only one of many activity spheres of Day.Az. For nearly two centuries, the Armenian nationalists have been spreading lies about the Turkic world, and to fight against this, there is demand for the resources such as Day.Az. Armenia often makes attempts to refute information by Day.Az, but they can not succeed," said the MP.

According to MP Aynur Guliyeva, there is a need for such publications.

"The book is an excellent tool, particularly for our citizens traveling abroad. The book is necessary to propagate the truth about Azerbaijan in these countries. We would like the book to be translated into Turkish. Because the Turkish public is not sufficiently aware of this truth as well," said the MP.

In most cases, foreign readers point out Day.Az in the quality of news related to Azerbaijan, said the Chairman of the Press Council Aflatun Amashov.

"In its activities, Day.Az has always put in the forefront and brought to the attention of world public the correct position of Azerbaijan in the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict," said Amashov.

The materials regarding Karabakh must be translated into all languages and presented to the attention of world public, said Editor-in-Chief of Olaylar news agency and Olaylar newspaper, Yunus Oguz.

The book "Path to Nowhere: The trap of illusions" tells about the essence of the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and contains materials of Day.Az, dedicated to this issue.

The book is envisaged to expose all the loathsome essence of those who today "order music" in Armenia, while being both inside and outside the country.

[Catharsis]

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The enemy image has been added to everything else: Russia in these books is a centuries-old oppressor, colonialist, robber, freedom-killer, and so on.

Whether Georgians admit it or not, they in all probability would not even have the Georgia of today, if the Russian Empire did not expand to absorb it from the Ottoman and the Safavid/Qajar empires who had occupied Georgia for centuries. Similar case can be made for other countries like Ukraine which would end up as part of one of the European empires (probably Austro-Hungarian one), in fact most of Western Ukraine was part of the Hapsburg Empire for quite sometime before unification with Russia.

[Armanen]

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Whether Georgians admit it or not, they in all probability would not even have the Georgia of today, if the Russian Empire did not expand to absorb it from the Ottoman and the Safavid/Qajar empires who had occupied Georgia for centuries. Similar case can be made for other countries like Ukraine which would end up as part of one of the European empires (probably Austro-Hungarian one), in fact most of Western Ukraine was part of the Hapsburg Empire for quite sometime before unification with Russia.

Who you mind expanding on why you think georgia wouldn't have existed today if the Russian Empire hadn't absorbed it?

[Haykakan]

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Who you mind expanding on why you think georgia wouldn't have existed today if the Russian Empire hadn't absorbed it?

He did explain it, he said it would have been overruned with turcks without russias support.

[Armanen]

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He did explain it, he said it would have been overruned with turcks without russias support.

Then the same can be said about Armenia.

[Catharsis]

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Who you mind expanding on why you think georgia wouldn't have existed today if the Russian Empire hadn't absorbed it?

I am not fond of Wiki that much (often pages have many errors and people keep changing information over and over). However, this is very much accurate on the situation in Georgia (and Armenia as other parts of the region) prior to integration into the Russian Empire.

By the middle of the 15th century, most of Georgia's old neighbor-states disappeared from the map within less than a hundred years. The fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in 1453 sealed the Black Sea and cut the remnants of Christian states of the area from Europe and the rest of the Christian world. Georgia remained connected to the West through contact with the Genoese colonies of the Crimea.

As a result of these changes, Georgia suffered economic and political decline and in the 1460s the kingdom fractured into several states: the Kingdom of Kartli, the Kingdom of Imereti and the saatabago (atabegdom) of Samtskhe.

By the late 15th century the Ottoman Empire was encroaching on the Georgian states from the west and in 1501 a new Muslim power, Safavid Persia, arose to the east. For the next few centuries, Georgia would become a battleground between these two great rival powers and the Georgian states would struggle to maintain their independence. In 1555, the Ottomans and the Safavids signed the Peace of Amasa, defining spheres of influence in Georgia, assigning Imereti in the west to the Turks and Kartli-Kakheti in the east to the Persians. The campaigns of the most powerful Safavid ruler, Shah Abbas, to bring eastern Georgia under his sway were particularly devastating. Tens of thousands of Georgians were killed or deported to Persia and the shah had the queen mother, Ketevan, tortured to death. By the 17th century, both eastern and western Georgia had sunk into poverty as the result of the constant warfare. The economy was so bad that barter replaced the use of money and the populations of the cities declined markedly. The French traveller Jean Chardin, who visited the region of Mingrelia in 1671, noted the wretchedness of the peasants, the arrogance of the nobles and the ignorance of the clergy. The rulers were split between acknowledging Ottoman or Persian overlordship (which often entailed nominal conversion to Islam) or making a bid for independence. The emergence of a third imperial power to the north, Christian Russia, made the latter an increasingly tempting choice.

Erekle II, king of Kartli-Kakheti from 1762 to 1798, turned towards Russia for protection against Ottoman and Persian attacks. The Russian empress Catherine the Great was keen to have the Georgians as allies in her wars against the Turks, but sent only meager forces to help them. In 1769–1772, a handful of Russian troops under General Totleben battled against Turkish invaders in Imereti and Kartl-Kakheti. In 1783 Erekle signed the Treaty of Georgievsk with Russia, according to which Kartli-Kakheti was to receive Russian protection. But when another Russo-Turkish War broke out in 1787, the Russians withdrew their troops from the region for use elsewhere, leaving Erekle's kingdom unprotected. In 1795, the Persian shah, Agha Mohammed Khan, invaded the country and burnt the capital, Tbilisi, to the ground.
Solomon I, King of Imeretia

In spite of Russia's failure to honour the terms of the Treaty of Georgievsk, Georgian rulers felt they had nobody else to turn to. After Erekle's death, a civil war broke out over the succession to the throne of Kartli-Kakheti and one of the rival candidates called on Russia to intervene and decide matters. On January 8, 1801 Tsar Paul I of Russia signed a decree on the incorporation of Georgia (Kartli-Kakheti) within the Russian Empire which was confirmed by Tsar Alexander I on September 12, 1801.

[Armanen]

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Thank you!

[ninetoyadome]

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Azerbaijan may cease foreign TV channels broadcasting anti-Azerbaijani programs: broadcasting council chairman
05.12.2009 12:29


Azerbaijan, Baku, Dec. 5 / Trend News A.Huseynbala /

The National Broadcasting Council of Azerbaijan may prohibit cable broadcasting of foreign television channels that prepares programs against the country.

We will ban cable broadcasting of Euronews and other foreign television channels in Azerbaijan should they continue preparing programs against our country, Chairman of the National Council Nushirevan Maharramli told Trend News today.

On Nov. 28, Euronews broadcasted a report "Nagorno-Karabakh - wind of change" by Michael Raikhman, which was very biased and one-sidedly interpreted events in the Karabakh war. The press service of Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry and ruling New Azerbaijan Party sent letters to the management of the TV channel with regards to the reportage.

"In the telecast "Nagorno-Karabakh - wind of change" on Nov. 28 on the Euronews TV channel, was another attempt to confuse the world and European public opinion through presenting reasons and essence of the conflict in accordance with the position of the Armenian side," the letter of protest said.

In this program Nagorno-Karabakh was presented as an "independent country" and the head of the fictitious establishment Bako Saakian as "president of this country". "In addition, Nagorno-Karabakh which was recognized by all international documents and authoritative international organizations as the territory of Azerbaijan and which has no geographical link with Armenia, was described as the "heart" of Armenia.

The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan since 1992, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and 7 surrounding districts. Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group - Russia, France, and the U.S. - are currently holding the peace negotiations.

The chairman said the council holds a unilateral position on Euronews which considers itself as objective.

"Above all, such actions do not bring respect to the channel. So, we should act within the legal framework," he added.

He said the foreign television channels are broadcasted in the country's territory via the cable, internet or satellite.

"However, we could take some measures against the channels broadcasted via cable. If any foreign television channel continues broadcasting such biased programs, we will demand their cessation," he said.

Maharramli recalled that the legislation on televisions broadcasting specifies the cases when broadcasting of foreign television channels may be interrupted in the country.

i guess azeris dont like hearing the truth