Bütün postsovet məkanında olduğu kimi, Azərbaycanda da indi sovet keçmişini nostalgiya ilə xatırlamaq, yumşaq desək, dəbdən düşüb. Geriyə boylanmaq sizi Əhdi-ətiq əfsanəsində olduğu kimi, duzdan sütuna çevirməsə belə, xoş olmayan baxışların hədəfinə çevrilməyinizə səbəb ola bilir. Amma bəziləri israrla geriyə boylanırlar. Bu yazıda onları bunu etməyə nəyin vadar etdiyini öyrənməyə çalışmışıq.

Ностальгия по советской эпохе в Азербайджане,  как и на всем постсоветском пространстве, нынче, мягко говоря, не в моде. Оглядываясь назад, рискуешь если не превратиться в соляной столб, как в библейской легенде, то, как минимум, выставить себя в не  лучшем свете. Но некоторые все же оглядываются. Мы постарались выяснить, что заставляет их это делать.

Nostalgia for the Soviet era is out of fashion in Azerbaijan, just as it is in the rest of the post-Soviet countries. Looking back at the old days with sympathy is rarely encouraged, if not shunned upon, yet there are still those that do. The authors of this article tried to find out what makes them miss the USSR.

What is the relationship between ecological information and environmental crises? What role does scientific competence – or a lack thereof – play in ecological management and environmental policy?

This paper focuses on the possibilities of transforming the gender distribution of labor and power dynamics within families under the conditions of seasonal labor migration of men in Armenia.

After Armenia's defeat in the war in Nagorno-Karabakh in 2020, foreign and security policy developments in the small South Caucasian republic are happening at an unprecedented pace. Looking to the West for additional security guarantees, Armenia has inevitably aroused the displeasure of its strategic security partner, Russia. It is still difficult to assess what consequences this will have.

The Heinrich Boell Foundation Tbilisi Office – South Caucasus Region, together with Ilia State University and the Soviet Past Research Laboratory (SOVLAB), organizes its annual South Caucasus Regional Conference on Memory Politics to discuss history research and teaching in the South Caucasus (SC) – traditions and innovations in history teaching methods, the main historical narratives conveyed through history education, and current debates on the role of history in forming young people’s identity.