I wrote the Nations in Transit 2020 report on Azerbaijan for Freedom House. The report described the state of democracy in Azerbaijan at the outset of 2020, so it focused on events that actually occurred in 2019 and that reflected the state of civil society, press freedom, etc. Long story short, the year was marked by cosmetic reforms which solved none of the state’s structural problems: the dominance of the executive branch over all others, the dominance of the national government over local government, rampant corruption, etc. You can read the whole report at Freedom House:
Robert Denis 