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    Today.Az, Azerbaijan
    Jan 4 2009


    Azad Isazade: `Economic crisis in Azerbaijan may lead to nervous
    breakdown among most of our citizens'

    04 January 2009 [18:11] - Today.Az

    Day.Az interview with famous psychologist Azad Isazade.


    - What can you say about the past year of 2008 in the psychological
    sense it had for the Azerbaijani citizens?

    - First of all, Azerbaijan held presidential elections last
    year. Moreover, the elections were also held in a number of countries,
    with which our country have important relations including the United
    States, Russia, Armenia, Georgia, Turkey.

    In other words, the year was full of events in the sense of electoral
    processes, whose results could influence our country. But as the
    results of these elections were predicted, they did not have any
    influence on the deterioration or improvement of the overall
    psychological state of the citizens of our country. It all occurred as
    it was expected to occur, which means that there were no grounds for
    excessive hopes or disappointment. The August Russian-Georgian war and
    the global financial crisis became more important in the sense of
    influence on the overall psychological state of our citizens. Both
    these events carried a negative impact on the citizens of Azerbaijan.

    For example, after the August Russian-Georgian war a part of our
    citizens, who hoped for the return of the Armenian-occupied Nagorno
    Karabakh, clearly understood that in this changing world there occur
    situations when little depends not only on the simple citizens of
    Azerbaijan but also on the leadership of Azerbaijan and Armenia for
    peace can always be sacrificed in the geopolitical confrontation
    between superpowers, tending to establish their hegemony in our
    region. The clear understanding of this fact caused the worsening of
    the psychological state in our country.

    The global financial crisis, which has started to be felt in
    Azerbaijan, even worsened all negative tendencies. Its expectation has
    an extremely negative influence on the psychological state of our
    citizens.

    - What implications can this expectation of all negative consequences
    of economic crisis have?

    - On the first stage everything may content with the review of the
    family budget and the striving to finish all economic accomplishments.
    But this is only on the first stage. Further, the expectation of
    economic crisis in Azerbaijan and its negative implications for each
    of our citizens will naturally toughen and strain, creating a negative
    psychological background for the citizens of the country. But if the
    economic crisis comes to Azerbaijan and turns out to be serious
    enough, it may cause a nervous breakdown among most of our citizens.

    - How will the understanding of the inability to resist not only
    possible significant deterioration of their material state due to
    economic crisis but also understanding of their inability to settle a
    number of housing problems including problems with electricity, gas
    and water in our flats influence the psychological state of the
    residents of our country?

    - First of all, there are definite, though not significant, positive
    changes in the issue of supply of gas, elecricity and water to the
    population. Though no one can guarantee that all these insignificant
    achievements will not disappear easily. But the overall complex
    situation promotes adjustment of our people to hard life collissions.
    Therefore, an average Azerbaijan is not depressed with his own
    inability to change the situation for better. He starts to adjust to
    this situation and live in his own, often a parralel world. And by our
    national `duzeler' (`everything will be o'k') I can explain the fact
    that local restaurants and other festivity houses and filled, though
    implications of global financial crisis are obvious throughout the
    world.

    /Day.Az/


    URL: http://www.today.az/news/society/49916.html
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