Azerbaijan - a nation with a Turkic and majority-Muslim population - regained its independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Despite a 1994 cease-fire, Azerbaijan has yet to resolve its conflict with Armenia over the Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh enclave (largely Armenian populated). Azerbaijan has lost 16% of its territory and must support some 571,000 internally displaced persons as a result of the conflict. Corruption is ubiquitous and the promise of widespread wealth from Azerbaijan's undeveloped petroleum resources remains largely unfulfilled. To be updated
May 8th 2008Asia » Azerbaijan » Baku I’ve recently returned from a quick and quirky trip to Azerbaijan in far Eastern Asia. A few snap shot impressions I managed to soak up during my brief visit are below. Overall, despite finding ... 8 photos[full story]
March 1st 2008Asia » Azerbaijan » Baku A mar emlitett setak alatt, kulonbozo allatokkal es farkas-ill lencseszemet neztunk:) A valasztek a falu kozeleben gyerebbnek tunt, mint a falun bellul, ahol ilzen fura lenyekkel talalkoztunk mint:
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January 29th 2008Asia » Azerbaijan » Nagorno-Karabakh - I discovered today that the cookies that I have been dominating for the past couple of weeks which are always in the kitchen are special fiber digestive cookies.... while this sounds like light hear ... [full story]
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