Thursday, December 25, 2008

Azerbaijan Moves Toward Extending President Aliyev's Term

Azerbaijan has taken another step closer to extending President Ilham Aliyev's time in office beyond the constitutional limit of two consecutive terms.

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2 comments:

JTapp said...

When it was a poorer country the political process could be seen as a sort of joke... almost harmless.
But now that they've got billions of dollars in oil and natural gas in the coffers and are leveraging their unique strategic position, the lack of democracy becomes a little more frightening.

Eric said...

The effect is most frightening for the citizens of Azerbaijan.