soc.culture.azerbaijan
Azerbaijan and the Azerbaijani people.
Created as the Soviet Union dissolved, the group carried the first open online discussion of Azerbaijani independence, the Nagorno-Karabakh war, and the Latin-script reform of the language.
Diaspora threads connected Baku with communities in Turkey, Iran (Iranian Azerbaijanis were a constant, complicated presence) and the West.
Reading soc.culture.azerbaijan today
- Historical archive: Google Groups — soc.culture.azerbaijan (coverage varies by group and era).
- Live access: point an NNTP newsreader at a modern server — see accessing Usenet today.
- The original news2mail e-mail subscription service ended in the mid-2000s and no longer operates.