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Ismi Aghayev

Ismi has worked as a journalist for over 5 years and is passionate about multimedia journalism. He is interested in peacebuilding and human rights. Ismi speaks five languages and has a particular love for his academic knowledge of Arabic. He thinks volleyball makes him hyper and social, and since these are two of his favourite conditions, he considers volleyball his favourite sport.

Azerbaijan’s ‘neutrality’ and the Declaration of Allied Interaction with Russia

Despite a treaty on ‘Allied Interaction’ signed a day before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Azerbaijan has remained resolutely neutral on the conflict.

Azerbaijani police allow women’s march to go ahead

In previous years, police have violently disbursed efforts by activists to mark International Women’s Day.

Baku police break up Russian Embassy protest 

A handful of activists were dragged away by police shortly after gathering.

Azerbaijanis take to the streets against Russian invasion

Despite chants of ‘Putin, get out!’, one ruling party MP insisted the demonstration was not against Russia.

‘We hope that this tragedy will end’: Azerbaijanis in Ukraine describe a brutal war

OC Media spoke with Azerbaijanis in Ukraine about the ongoing Russian invasion.

Prominent queer Azerbaijani journalist brutally murdered

Avaz Hafizli was stabbed to death and then dismembered.   

Armenian and Azerbaijani officials silent on Donbas recognition

Aliyev’s silence was particularly loud, given his meeting with Putin on Tuesday — and his subsequent signing of a ‘Declaration on Allied Interaction’.

Trucker protest briefly shuts down Azerbaijan’s largest highway

Three of the four drivers involved in the protest have been placed under arrest.

Azerbaijan arrests several top military officials

One of the men arrested is Rafael Khalilov, the head of the finance department of the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry.

The battle over Christian monuments in Nagorno-Karabakh

Recent threats by Baku to erase Armenian inscriptions on monuments in Nagorno-Karabakh have directed a grim focus on the Armenia-Azerbaijan history war.