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Bahruz Samadov

@smdov.bsky.social
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Researcher focused on Azerbaijan, authoritarianism, nationalism. Post-structuralist, into Lacan, Laclau, Derrida, Zizek. Currently doing PhD in Political Science at Charles University in Prague.

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Bahruz Samadov @smdov.bsky.social · 18/08/2024
Many Ukrainians used to enthusiastically support Azerbaijan during the Second Karabakh War, seeing it in very simple terms.
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Bahruz Samadov @smdov.bsky.social · 16/08/2024
Good analysis. Taliban brought security to the Afghan people - one of the tenets of their legitimacy claim
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Global Voters @globalvoters.bsky.social · 16/08/2024
#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…
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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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Juan Meneses @dissentum.bsky.social · 14/08/2024
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!
Cover of the book Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination, edited by Juan Meneses
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 13/08/2024
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.
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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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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 13/08/2024
“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
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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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Bahruz Samadov @smdov.bsky.social · 13/08/2024
Proud to be Britain's crypto colony
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Protiv @protiv.osintukraine.com · 10/08/2024
How Iranian Azerbaijan Almost Became a "New Territory" of the USSR: Excerpt from Mikhail Krutikhin's book Iranian Agents of the Kremlin
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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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Bahruz Samadov @smdov.bsky.social · 09/08/2024
"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
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Bahruz Samadov @smdov.bsky.social · 02/08/2024
This a great article, check it out - everything you need to know about Azerbaijan
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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 01/08/2024
“The Kremlin is also releasing dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza as part of the agreement, a European official said on condition of anonymity.”
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TeePee Cider @teepeecider.bsky.social · 31/07/2024
A cider maker? 😉 A car full of apples in Azerbaijan just west of the Tien Shan mountains. Photographer David Fiekle #cider #apples #Azerbaijan
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Bahruz Samadov @smdov.bsky.social · 31/07/2024
Azerbaijan has what Rumelili describes as 'peace anxiety'.
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News Feed @news-feed.bsky.social · 31/07/2024
@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
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Bahruz Samadov @smdov.bsky.social · 31/07/2024
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
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Ryan Hite @religiousryan.bsky.social · 30/07/2024
🚨 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
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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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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 29/07/2024
#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...
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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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Bahruz Samadov @smdov.bsky.social · 29/07/2024
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
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Bahruz Samadov @smdov.bsky.social · 29/07/2024
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.
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Bahruz Samadov @smdov.bsky.social · 26/07/2024
'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.'
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Bahruz Samadov @smdov.bsky.social · 26/07/2024
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...
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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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Bahruz Samadov @smdov.bsky.social · 30/06/2024
Recently talked to @ocmedia.bsky.social about performative anti-colonialism in #Azerbaijan oc-media.org/podcasts/pod...
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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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Bahruz Samadov @smdov.bsky.social · 24/06/2024
I wrote about #Turkey 's dilemmas regarding #Azerbaijan = Israel cooperation eurasianet.org/israel-emerg...
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Israel emerging as source of tension in Azerbaijan’s special relationship with Turkey
War in Gaza and domestic politics in Turkey create cracks in Azerbaijani-Turkish alliance.
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Bahruz Samadov @smdov.bsky.social · 12/06/2024
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
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Bahruz Samadov @smdov.bsky.social · 12/06/2024
It's c. +35C in Baku in afternoon. I enjoy summers here and I'm really attached to my native city
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Bahruz Samadov @smdov.bsky.social · 10/06/2024
“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...
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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 @smdov.bsky.social · 30/05/2024
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...
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Azerbaijan to settle Stepanakert in September
President Aliyev announced the move during a meeting with residents resettled in Khojali.
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Bahruz Samadov @smdov.bsky.social · 30/05/2024
Yesterday spotted the famous "statue" of Sigmund Freud by David Černý in #Prague. This man has made a lot of bad artistic project, and this is one of them.
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Bahruz Samadov @smdov.bsky.social · 24/05/2024
I commented on #Azerbaijan's bizarre involvement in the events in #NewCaledonia and #Kanak movement. oc-media.org/france-accus...
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France accuses Azerbaijan of supporting riots in New Caledonia
France has accused Azerbaijan of supporting rioters against French rule in New Caledonia, a French territory in the South Pacific.
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EUwatch 🇪🇺 @euwatch.live · 17/05/2024
France accuses Azerbaijan of fomenting political violence in New Caledonia
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France accuses Azerbaijan of fomenting violence in New Caledonia
An outbreak of rioting in the Pacific territory has been met with a 1,000-strong reinforcement for local security services.
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BYTESEU @byteseu.bsky.social · 14/05/2024
How France became the target of Azerbaijan’s smear campaign www.byteseu.com/106127 How France became the target of Azerbaijan’s smear campaign www.france24.com/en/europe/20240220…
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How France became the target of Azerbaijan's smear campaign
How France became the target of Azerbaijan's smear campaignhttps://www.france24.com/en/europe/20240220-how-france-became-target-azerbaijan-smear-campaign
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Bahruz Samadov @smdov.bsky.social · 14/05/2024
There are many fake news about the genocide in Gaza. Always check the shocking news such as about the concentration camps
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EUwatch 🇪🇺 @euwatch.live · 14/05/2024
Germany's Scholz and Nordic leaders call for more Ukraine aid
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Germany's Scholz and Nordic leaders urge more Ukraine aid – DW – 05/13/2024
The leaders of Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland met to discuss their common security threats and how to further support Ukraine in the face of Russia's full-scale invasion.
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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 13/05/2024
Holy shit
Al Jazeera tweeting: Amnesty International has criticised an inconclusive US report on whether Israel’s operations in Gaza violated internationals law, calling the findings an “international version of ‘thoughts and prayers'.”

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ammcst
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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 10/05/2024
I don't know as much about Armenian Jews but in general the Caucasus was just never a particularly antisemitic place. Which is wild, considering everything else about cultural relations in the Caucasus.
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Bahruz Samadov @smdov.bsky.social · 10/05/2024
"For several years, the State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan, better known as SOCAR, operated a trading office in Texas and was actively courting American politicians to support its initiatives." I hate oil 🦾🦾
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Nikhil Shah @grandmastershah.bsky.social · 09/05/2024
Nearly 700 Jewish professors call on Biden not to sign controversial antisemitism legislation
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Nearly 700 Jewish professors call on Biden not to sign controversial antisemitism legislation
A group of nearly 700 Jewish college faculty signed a letter to President Biden on Wednesday encouraging him not to back the controversial Antisemitism Awareness Act.  The academics took issue…
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Bahruz Samadov @smdov.bsky.social · 09/05/2024
"Puss in Boots 2" is awesome. Authentic life (Heideggerian) instead of eternal singularity and egoism (anti-Nietzsche), pro-sharing, pro-love, and pro-community. Usually I don't enjoy contemporary mass animation but this was an exception
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Bahruz Samadov @smdov.bsky.social · 09/05/2024
As a democratic, anti authoritarian Azerbaijani I can say that Azerbaijanis were also ethically cleansed, including Shusha in 1992. It was the only Azeri-populated city in Nagorno-Karabakh. However, Azerbaijanis ethically cleansed and killed a lot of Armenians in Shusha in 1920.
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Larry Neufeld @larryneufeldsk.bsky.social · 08/05/2024
Good COP, bad COP: Azerbaijan’s climate charm offensive is backfiring #COP29 #Azerbaijan #fossilfuels #corruption #humanrights www.politico.eu/article/good...
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Good COP, bad COP: Azerbaijan’s climate charm offensive is backfiring
Hosting the prestigious U.N. talks is drawing unwanted attention to the oil-and-gas-rich nation’s foreign influence networks and political crackdowns.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 05/05/2024
I lost 31 relatives to Israeli attacks in Gaza. But I blame Hamas too An anti-war activist whose childhood home was destroyed by Israel’s response to the October 7 attacks sets out how to break the cycle of revenge Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ive-...
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I lost 31 relatives to Israeli attacks in Gaza. But I blame Hamas too
An anti-war activist whose childhood home was destroyed by Israel’s response to the October 7 attacks sets out how to break the cycle of revenge
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Bahruz Samadov @smdov.bsky.social · 04/05/2024
And I'm tired of Western far-left who see the post-Soviet social movements as Western proxies.
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Bahruz Samadov @smdov.bsky.social · 03/05/2024
Homeland mentioned!!!
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 03/05/2024
WASHINGTON (AP) — US Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas and his wife indicted on conspiracy and other charges in probe into ties to Azerbaijan.
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