A Year After Ethnic Cleansing, the World Comes to Azerbaijan

Sept. 19 marks the one-year anniversary of Azerbaijan's attack on Nagorno-Karabakh, which led to the expulsion of its 120,000 ethnic Armenians. So this is a good week to contemplate how it could possibly be that the world community decided shortly thereafter to allow Azerbaijan to host the COP29 global climate conference—and how to handle it.

It ranked 154th out of 180 countries in Transparency International's 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index. The ruling elite, led by Azerbaijan's strongman Ilham Aliyev, has been implicated in major corruption scandals, including the Pandora Papers, which revealed extensive offshore wealth linked to his family and close associates. We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly.



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