This is cool. There’s a reason this is becoming more and more frequent.

BAKU, July 10 (AFP) – Some 10,000 opposition members, many dressed in orange, demonstrated Sunday in the centre of Azerbaijan’s capital Baku to call for fair parliamentary elections in November.

Participants at the rally, organised by the opposition Azadlyg (Freedom) Bloc, shouted: “freedom” and called on President Ilham Aliyev to ensure that the November 6 poll is free.

Many wore orange clothing, a symbol inspired by last year’s “orange revolution” that brought pro-Western opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko to power in Ukraine.

Isa Gambar, head of the opposition party Musavat, told the crowd that “this year we will free the country from the Aliyev regime.”

Aliyev, who took over the presidency from his father Heydar Aliyev in controversial 2003 elections, has only recently allowed opposition protests to take place.

Gateway Pundit has more on this event. Perhaps the most important word noted in his post is the word “sanctioned,” as the government actually allowed this protest to take place. The government up until May has almost always dispersed, often violently, any protests by opposition or youth organizations. Slowly but surely, under constant international pressure, they have begun to not interfere in unsanctioned protests and it looks now as if the protests have become sanctioned. It’s interesting to watch notable progress being made in a short time period.