From unjustified expectations to an unjustified crisis

On a quiet morning in early September, a social media storm erupted in Azerbaijan. Farid Pardaşunas, a member of the Board of the Press Council, publicly accused Wikipedia contributors of removing thousands of articles about martyrs who had died in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. His posts claimed that nearly 3,000 entries had been deleted, an action he vowed to address by appealing to law enforcement and the State Security Service.

According to an official statement, by the end of 2026, a per capita funding system will be implemented in schools. Currently, this is being piloted in a group of schools, with plans to expand to 100 schools by 2026.

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global emergency regarding monkeypox on August 14, 2024. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called on all countries to strengthen their monitoring on his X account.

On August 15, despite ongoing antimonopoly investigations, the state telecommunications provider "Aztelecom," under the Ministry of Digital Development and Transport, has raised its tariffs for gigabit passive optical network (GPON) services.