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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.

This review summarises the study’s key findings and relates them to multifaceted processes of identity and state-formation, as well as to questions of generational succession.

Judicial reforms have been high on the new democratic reforms’ agenda of Armenia since the 2018 Revolution as the low level of trust in the judiciary was one of the reasons behind the Velvet Revolution. 

The first time I met Ani, she was 24 years old and planning to become a surrogate mother for the second time.As a researcher interested in surrogacy issues, I wanted to understand the reasons behind her decision. Ani was wondering why I was curious about her story. When she asked me, I hesitated a little and then answered diligently, “Because hearing your voice is important.”

Ramil writes about the urgency of intersectionality by studying the narratives of Azerbaijani LGBTQI+/queer individuals who have been facing multi-layered discrimination in Azerbaijan. 

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This article discusses the recent key developments that have led to a deteriorating quality of democracy and institutions in the country.