Representative of UK in Eurovision 2012 Engelbert Humperdinck has arrived in Azerbaijan`s capital.
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Just a few days ago, a leading US foreign policy analyst wrote that with regional tensions mounting as a result of Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the United States has a clear national-security interest...
read moreCIC has collated a diary of upcoming events and public affairs meetings with potential interest to those following events in Baku.
Gerald Frost is a journalist and writer. He was head of the UK-based Institute of European Defence and Strategic Studies, Director of the Centre for Policy Studies, Margaret Thatcher’s favourite think-tank, and Director of the Caspian Information Centre since 2003.
As the readers of this blog will be acutely aware, a spate of critical if superficial articles about Azerbaijan in the British press have been prompted by the fact the country is about to host the Eurovision Song Contest. Given the tendency of UK papers to regurgitate their rivals’ clichés ad nauseum, more such articles can be expected. However, the fact that it has taken a popular music...
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