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Terrorists in Azerbaijan. Again?

Last month a friend of mine contacted me from France, asking “what the hell is going on in Azerbaijan?!”. Apparently, she saw the notification that the Embassy of the United States has posted on its webpage, which warned about a terroristic threat and advised its citizens to “remain vigilant, particularly in public places associated with [ READ MORE ]

Corrupted No More

One of the good things about living in small communities is that rumors usually turn out to be true. No, not the gossiping-about-people-and-their-sex-lives kind of rumors, but the ones about important news. Right after Tunisia held the revolution and in the middle of the Egyptian one, the air in Baku started to change. A wave [ READ MORE ]

Sandmonkey on MSNBC

Famous Egyptian blogger Sandmonkey, who I recently interviewed for RFE/RL and who later was arrested, assaulted and basically robbed by the Egyptian police, is talking on MSNBC from Tahrir square here[ READ MORE ]

10 Best Super Bowl Ads

I love creative commercials. I mean, who doesn’t? Viral Video Chart has put together Best Super Bowl Ads, according to the number of times they have been shared on Facebook and Twitter. Mashable shows the top 10. Enjoy. 1. Volkswagen Commercial: The Force[ READ MORE ]

A Week of Egypt

DPDRBPA3BKH6 A collection of pictures and videos I collected from the protests this week. I’ve put the names of the authors that were available. If you know the authors of other pictures, please inform me in comments.   Cairo yesterday[ READ MORE ]

“5 years ago I was a minority opposition, today – I am the people.”

He was the first person I called when I saw news from Egypt. “I can’t talk, dear, I’m pretty teargased right now”, he said. I met him in Berlin. It was a blogger conference with participants coming from all around the world. For him it wasn’t the first official international event he was invited to [ READ MORE ]

Быть египтянином сегодня…

My interview with Egyptian blogger and my friend Sandmonkey for Radio Liberty in Russian. Soon to be published in English. Sandmonkey – никнейм, который выбрал для себя один египетский блоггер и активист, начавший вести свой блог в 2004-м году. Он взял себе ник и скрывает свое настоящее имя из соображений безопасности. На сегодняшний день sandmonkey является [ READ MORE ]

Democracy Freedom and Dignity

As the resistance in Egypt continues today, these are today’s updates. Egypt in Tweets: @alfredoboca: If your government shuts down the internet, shut down your government. @hasanalikhattak: women expected to take active role in protests today after men spent the night protecting neighborhoods #Egypt #Jan25 @samihtoukan Arab people are not extremist nor terrorists.Our time has [ READ MORE ]

I Met the Walrus

In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced him to do an interview. 38 years later, Levitan, director Josh Raskin and illustrators James Braithwaite and Alex Kurina have collaborated to create an animated short film using the original interview recording as the soundtrack. A [ READ MORE ]

Emin and Adnan: 17 months that changed things

This post is not about me. It’s about two people, worth love and respect who had to go to prison. And came back. And their friends and close ones, who stayed on the other side and didn’t give up. *** Azerbaijani bloggers Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizade were arrested on July 8th, 2009 with the [ READ MORE ]

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