Bahruz Samadov: another dissident voice silenced by the Aliyev regime

They may have left Azerbaijan, worked in exile or studied for their doctorates in European universities, but the increasingly repressive police regime in Baku is still hunting them down. In Azerbaijan, the post-2020 period is characterised by an ongoing crackdown on dissident voices: activists, academics, not to mention political opponents. Some issues are more sensitive

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API trains Tavush border villages in First Aid: “Ladies, in your handbag, next to your lipstick, you must have a tourniquet”

As part of its civil security programme, API (Armenia Peace Initiative) is stepping up its efforts to build capacity to respond to natural and man-made disasters, targeting people in border towns and villages. To date, API has trained 195 people, including 118 women. Our first aid training courses are aimed primarily at the civilian population

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API trains in cybersecurity : successful spring session at the UFAR  

API Armenia Peace Initiative, in partnership with the French University in Armenia (UFAR), recently completed a successful spring session of cybersecurity training. For this second edition, intensive training took place from 8 April to 3 May, designed and delivered by a duo of French experts. Sébastien Barguirdjian, a lecturer at the IUT and Faculté des

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API news: first aid training

As part of its civil protection programme, API organises first aid training courses. These courses are aimed primarily at people living in border and/or isolated regions, who are both the most likely to be affected in the event of a natural or man-made disaster and the best positioned to react. First aid consists of mastering

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Cybersecurity: a successful experiment

API Armenia Peace Initiative, in partnership with the French University in Armenia (UFAR) and the Enterprise Incubator Foundation (EIF), has just completed a professional training programme in cybersecurity. The course, designed and delivered by a French expert, Sébastien Barguirdjian, a cybersecurity lecturer at the University of Rennes and an entrepreneur in the IT sector, brought

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‘Armenians who have lived in Nagorno-Karabakh for millennia’ will most likely flee to Armenia

Azerbaijan’s brutal 24-hour military operation in Nagorno-Karabakh swiftly defeated the Karabakh Armenian forces. The bombing was so relentless, there was no way to bury the truckloads of lifeless bodies and now ethnic Armenians have begun to leave the capital for Armenia en masse. As Azerbaijan wrests control of Nagorno-Karabakh , FRANCE 24’s Rochelle FERGUSON BOUYAHI

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CYBERSECURITY advanced training

The API Armenia Peace Initiative, in partnership with the French University in Armenia (UFAR) and the EIF – Enterprise Incubator Foundation, is launching an advanced training program in cybersecurity. Secure development practices, forensic investigation, and network penetration testing techniques are on the agenda for this short course, targeting an informed audience and/or professionals in the

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