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Azerbaijan: Social media for 11 March

Categories: Central Asia & Caucasus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Digital Activism, Ethnicity & Race, Governance, International Relations, Politics, Protest, War & Conflict, Youth

While Flying Carpets & Broken Pipelines [EN] explains the purpose and introduces the group behind a Facebook group launched for 11 March [1], the date scheduled for pro-democracy protests in Azerbaijan, RAUFRAY | my point of view [AZ], a blog apparently by an activist from the pro-government İRƏLİ Public Union, attempts to discredit it by noting that 6 Armenians were among the first 50 to have joined even though there is nothing to stop anyone from anywhere from doing so [2].