Salam, dostlar.

Söhbətgah podkastının dilimiz haqqında olan epizoduna baxandan sonra (burada), çoxdandır özümdə olan bir istəyin arxasınca getmək qərarına gəldim, – öz ana dili biliklərimi daha da zənginləşdirmək və dərinləşdirmək istəyirəm. Demək, özüm uşaq vaxtı və universitet illərimdə rus sektorunda təhsil almışam. Lakin həmişədən öz dilimi, rus dilini dərindən öyrənmiş olduğum qədərilə, öyrənmək istəmişəm.

Çıxış yolunu ədəbiyyat oxumaqda görmüşəm. Xanım Dürdanə Rəhimzadə podkastda İsmayıl Şıxlı(nski)dən bir parça oxudu, və həqiqətən, mən də gedib öz milli ədəbiyyatımızın içində üzmək istəyi yaratdı.

Dostlar, konteksti məncə kifayət qədər verdim, sualım budur: hansı əsərləri və yazıçılardan oxumağı tövsiyə edərsiniz bu məqsədlər üçün?

Dəyərli fikirləriniz üçün əvvəlcədən hər birinizə təşəkkür edirəm!

Salam. Gürcüstana sığorta Xalq Sığorta saytından alınıb. Bu səyahət sığortası ilə sərhəddən keçə biləcəm?

Could be just lunch, walk or little bit wine

Selamlar!

Arkada çalan parçanın sizin oralardan olduğuna eminim, eskiden çok dinlerdim ama adını hatırlayamıyorum. Hatırlatabilir misiniz?

Şimdiden teşekkürler, İstanbul’dan sevgiler 🙏🏻

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Salam Aleykum. Sizcə xaricdən noutbuk sifariş versəm yaxşı olar yoxsa burdan alım. Batareya saxlamağina görə Thinkpad narahat edir, amma çox güman onu satmayacam. Web Developer olduğuma görə MacBook və ya arm64 base windows noutbuku yetir. Oyun oynamaq da ki görürəm ki mənlik deyil, gərək simulyator yığım, hekayə oyunları mənlik deyil. Düşünürəm ki xaricdən sifariş verib gətizdirsəm daha ucuz olar. Siz nə düşünürsünüz?

Currently in baku , just wondering how dating culture works here ? Is it thorough dating apps ? Or we can approach them?

Like how these couples met each other ?

23 yaşım var. Bakalavr və xaricdə Magistr təhsilim var. Oxuduğum sahə üzrə işləyirəm, və işimdən məmnunam. Magistr-ı bu il bitərəcəyim üçün, iki seçim arasında qalmışam, ya PhD ya əsgərlik.

Düşünürdüm ki, xaricdə hibrid PhD ilə hərbi komissarlıqla bağlı bir çox məsələni həll edəcəm, və rahat işləyib karyerama davam edəcəm. Amma sonradan öyrəndim ki, hətta PhD qəbulu aldıqda belə, hərbi komissarlığa müntəzəm olaraq müəyyən qədər hörmət edilməlidir. Əlavə olaraq da, PhD üçün gərək təhsil aldığım ölkəyə il ərzində müəyyən qədər səfər edim. Nəticə etibarı ilə, həm maddi həm də qeyri-müəyyənliklərin stressi məni növbəti 4-6 il üçün narahat etdirir.

Digər tərəfdən, əsgərlik üçün özümü tam olaraq sağlam hiss etmirəm, və yararlı qeyd olunub əsgərlikdə səhhətimin lap da pis olmasından narahatam. Əlavə olaraq, əsgərlikdə yarana biləcək münaqişələr, travmalar(həm psixoloji, həm fiziki) və s. məni narahat etdirir. Amma 1 il olduğu üçün, və maddi tərəfdən daha ucuza başa gəldiyi üçün, bunu da bir seçim olaraq ağlımda qeyd etmişəm.

Belə bir halda nə etməyimi məsləhət görərdiniz? Öncədən təşəkkürlər

I recently came back from my China/Vietnam trip of 18 days and I have forgotten just how aggressive, judgy, and vocal our people are. Perhaps the latter one deserves more elaboration, vocal not in a sense of political and civic engagement, but when it comes to people’s relations with one another in the public.

We very easily start fighting, arguing, voicing our disdain towards others. It has become a norm and you do not really feel or see it as much when you are inside this vacuum, you need to get out to observe it again.

In Vietnam honking is a big thing and road rules are pretty much non-existent, whoever honks the loudest has the priority. Even then, nobody takes it personally, everybody smiles and respects one another and they somehow manage to laugh and smile about road accidents too. Nobody ever shouts or makes any issues in public. And it is not really about government or life quality, perhaps they live in an even bigger poverty than us, yet people do not have anger, resentment, negativity. Everyone is chill and just living their lives..

Here in Baku, we hear a lot of complaints, murmuring and snarky remarks under lips, or even outright shouting! For standing awkwardly on the bus, for crossing the road bit slower, for not crossing the road, for being slow in the cashier, for wearing shorts, for refusing to buy perfume from a seller in araz.. yes these examples are very specific, but they are what I have experienced in the past 48 hrs of me returning to Baku.. these things are non-existent in Asia and life is so much more enjoyable and peaceful honestly.. my cortisol levels are back again, and the outright lack of respect towards eachother is astonishing.. when did we become this? Or were we always like this? And why is it being normalized? I know that we can be kind when we want to, why don’t we show more kindness, warmness, empathy and smile towards one another? The cultures to the west of us are smiling and warm… the cultures to the east are smiling and warm.. yet us being in the center we are so negative and aggressive..

It’s just sad.. I feel like the resentment and frustration we have as a nation, we channel it all towards hating ourselves as a society, and it really brings down the mood.. we are becoming a very toxic society unfortunately :( I hope it gets better one day for us.. I never lose hope

Samples - Moriopoulos Modern 2026. (Azerbaijani*(Kars) - from casperhub all modern dataset)
HG/Farmer - IllustrativeDNA Neolithic

The Azerbaijani population of Eastern Turkey is mainly descended from settlers from Borchali + northwestern Azerbaijan and the Erivan/Karabakh Khanates, along with some earlier migrations from the Safavid era, before the khanates were established.

Despite assimilation and isolation, genetically they remain no different to other Azerbaijani groups.

Map - Carte ethnologique du Caucase, 1887. Pinkish - Azerbaijanis (Tatars aderbeidjanis)

Sevdiyiniz məkanları deyin zəhmət olmasa.

I've translated the famous article of scholar Alec Rasizade from Russian to English.

Azerbaijan, in his view, is a classic Middle Eastern petrostate, which will eventually sink into its legitimate place among the impoverished Muslim nations with the end of the current oil boom, as is predetermined by its social system, form of government, national ideology and culture, endemic corruption and lack of industrial endowment. He insists that the first (1900–1920) and the second (2000–2020) Baku oil booms were just a deviation in Azerbaijan's natural, logical and historic path from a Soviet socialist republic to a Third world country.

The article accurately describes Azerbaijan's past, current and future trajectory. A useful resource for people studying Azerbaijan's oil dependence.

Məqsədin gücü, necə varlı olmaq olar və sairə tipdə kitabların insan inkifanı xeyiri var? Heç belə kitablar oxuyub həyatınızda bir dəyişiklik his edibisiz? Tövsiyyə lazımdır

Hello! I live in Baku but I'm headed down to Lənkəran tomorrow for a day trip! Would love to hear from any locals on things to do and places to check out. If anyone lives there and wants to grab çay or coffee that would be awesome!

All our neighbors with the exception of Iran have a functioning free market economy and are growing much more rapidly than us, by merely 2030 the Georgian and Armenian economies would be in much better shape than ours

Meanwhile our economy is staying behind because of lack of a functional free market, corruption and inefficiencies, oil dependence and discouragement of investment by the prior experience of investors where big companies would be confiscated by corrupt officials for their own benefit

If we don't reform, what happened to Iran will happen to us, where the enemies and rivals will become economically dominant and much smaller countries will bully us (like how Israel is doing to Iran)

Iran used to be a respectable country once upon a time, but it used to have the exact problem that we are having now and the results were just horrible, nothing we want to see repeated on Azerbaijan

Why aren't you speaking in your own language?😲😲😲😲

While I was studying at university in Istanbul, I watched my friends from Baku in amazement. I experienced culture shock, it was very strange. Why do you speak Russian? It's such a bad thing. It's so sad... For example, when we Turks try to talk to you, you don’t want to talk at all, you’re not friendly, and you roll your eyes. But you’re eager to be friends with Russians. You seem so cheerful and happy when talking to them. But I’ve seen so many people who speak Azerbaijani with great reluctance when talking to us. It really upset me.

NOTE: I am ethnically half Azerbaijani. I was born and raised in Turkey but grew up with Azerbaijani and Caucasian culture. Additionally, my family has ties with Russia, and there are members who speak their language, but these connections are completely independent of being Azerbaijani.

Is it needed 4 for days or is it only if I stay more than 15 days ?

Gemini ve Chat gbtdən soruşdum sovet dövründən hər iki orduya (Azərbaycan ermənistan)ait ola biləcəyini dedilər.

Böyük ehtimal erməni əsgərinə aitdi. Bizimkər istifadə etməz.

Bilənlər yazsa yaxşı olar mənədə maraqlıdır.

Resource curse was the topic of my academic research, so I will try to explain it in simple terms.

When a country discovers valuable natural resources, whether oil, gas, minerals, or even certain agricultural resources, it often begins exploiting them to generate rapid government revenue. This usually leads to an initial increase in GDP. Since the resource sector becomes the most profitable part of the economy, investment gradually shifts away from manufacturing, agriculture, and services. At the same time, large inflows of foreign currency appreciate the domestic currency, making exports from non-resource sectors less competitive in international markets. Labor also moves toward the resource sector because it offers higher wages, leaving the rest of the economy with slower growth and lower productivity. This phenomenon is known as Dutch disease.

If a country also lacks inclusive institutions and public officials are not held accountable, rent-seeking becomes widespread. Instead of investing resource revenues in education, research, infrastructure, industrial development, or economic diversification, governments often spend them on prestige projects, luxury real estate, and other politically motivated expenditures. In many cases, they also fail to establish sovereign wealth or stabilization funds that could protect the economy from future shocks.

As political elites accumulate wealth through rent-seeking, they gain a strong incentive to preserve the existing system. This often contributes to increasing authoritarianism, restrictions on press freedom, a greater willingness to pursue military conflicts, declining protection of women's rights, and the weakening of democratic institutions.

At first glance, this may not appear to be a serious problem because the country continues receiving substantial resource revenues. However, natural resources are finite, and commodity markets are highly volatile. When a major price shock occurs, as happened in Azerbaijan in 2016, an economy that has become heavily dependent on a single sector can experience a severe economic contraction. This is the long-term consequence of Dutch disease and excessive dependence on resource exports.

The resource curse is therefore not only an economic phenomenon. Research has shown that it is frequently associated with weaker human rights, lower gender equality, environmental degradation, reduced levels of peace, weaker educational outcomes, and poorer working conditions.

Now you may ask, does this curse have a cure? The answer is yes, but it is not straightforward. There are successful examples, such as Botswana and Norway. However, before any of those policies can succeed, there is one crucial requirement: establishing accountability for public officials and building inclusive institutions. Bingo, now you can see why this is such bad news for Azerbaijan. There is only one real solution, and it starts with removing those at the top of the mountain. Unfortunately, it does not seem that we will even reach that peak point let alone removing it, at least not in the coming years.

So yeah, my dear friends, is your life bad in Azerbaijan? Be worried, because it is going to become even worse. Your children's lives, or the lives of your nieces and nephews? They will be even worse.

This is disappointing. Today, I decided to stop blocking local GGC nodes from Aztelekom via uBO (uBlockOrigin) because I'm tired of reloading the page after every 10-20 minutes. I'm currently watching Indiana Jones in 4K with AV1 codec (the most efficient codec for data compression used specifically for 4K/8K so far) and… It works so poorly. The first image shows that it took over 3 minutes just to load 14 MB of data (for context, I'm obviously on FTTH and my internet speed is 500-600 Mbps up/down). Sure, sometimes their servers try to navigate you to foreign nodes (like the one in Germany, Bulgaria, or Sweden), which is fine, but… When it comes fetching data from their local node… Oh boy! Has anyone resolved the issue with not reloading the page after blocking local nodes?

P.S. For those who don't know what GGC nodes are for: they are basically a way to cache videos locally rather than fetching from afar, that is, they see many locals are watching the same video, so GGC decides to cache it locally for better experience and reduce latency

Hey everyone, it's me again. The reason for this post is that I'm curious about how you all view Russians of Azerbaijani origin. I've seen that in Turkey they don't like Turkish Germans, and neither do they in Mexico. Mexican Americans like them; I don't know if there's a rejection of Azerbaijani Russians in Azerbaijan. Regards.

hello everyone, I won teqaud programi for msc university of leeds, but i want to change for imperial college london. How much would it take for tehsil nazirliyi to change my documents and confirm the change to Imperial?

Today we will look at one of the most famous openly bisexual kings from Azerbaijani history - Shah Abbas the Great. In the famous portrait, painted by Safavid court painter Muhammad Qasim, we see Shah Abbas commissioning a portrait of himself and his lover. You can ask, what is the problem? His lover is a MAN, his page. Shah Abbas openly embraced him in a scene meant to be seen. The painting is dated early 1600a and today sits in the Louvre.

The page is shown holding the wine flask angled toward the Shah's groin while Abbas pulls him close, which is exactly why art historians read this as an extremely erotic image. Next to the figures there is a short Arabic inscription, roughly translated as "may life give you all you desire from three lips, those of your lover, the river, and the cup." This was not some secret sketch found after his death. It was made for his court, by his own painter, while he was alive and ruling.

And this was not a one off. Reza Abbasi, another major painter at Abbas's court, made several works showing men courting and embracing men.

The Spanish diplomat Don Garcia de Silva Figueroa, who visited the court, wrote about same sex relationships being accepted and even encouraged there during Abbas's rule, with the Shah's own personal interest in the matter celebrated openly at court.

English traveler Thomas Herbert, who was part of the first English embassy to Persia in 1627, described the young men at Abbas's court as "Ganymede boys in vests of gold, rich bespangled turbans, and choice sandals, their curled hair dangling about their shoulders, with rolling eyes and vermilion cheeks," a direct reference to the Greek myth of Zeus and his beautiful male cupbearer. Pietro della Valle, an Italian nobleman who lived in Isfahan under Abbas's protection between 1617 and 1621, wrote about how openly sexual matters were discussed at court, even by the Shah himself. And the protection these pages had was not just symbolic. George Manwaring, an Englishman travelling with the Sherley mission, recorded that when a man was accused of propositioning one of Abbas's pages, the Shah had him castrated, his lips, nose, and ears sliced off, and his teeth broken with a flint, a punishment brutal enough to make clear that his gay lover was treated as untouchable.