Though the authorities billed the recent destruction of an “underground” mosque as part of a larger effort to clean up Baku, the move was almost surely part of a larger struggle to control unwanted forms of Islamby Jerzy Rohozinski BAKU, Azerbaijan–Hadjibala Abutalibov is clearly a decisive man. Since his election as mayor of Baku in January, he has moved quickly […]
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