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Letter from Baku
Martin Shipton
Whatever constitutional status you favour for Wales, there’s a country at the crossroads of Europe and Asia that can set us an example about nation building.
Oil-rich Azerbaijan’s capital Baku is located on the Caspian Sea. It combines a beautiful and atmospheric old city with some of the most astonishing buildings to have been built in the 21st Century. Miraculously the new doesn’t jar with the old.
Thirty-two years ago the country emerged nervously from the dissolved Soviet Union as a self-governing nation – something it had little experience of, having previously been independent for just two years, from 1918 to 1920.
It was used to being invaded and colonised – by Persia, the Mongol Empire, Tamerlane and latterly Russia, all of which saw subservience to the central power as the defining principle.
My visit to Baku comes a month after Azerbaijan took back by force from ethnic Armenians the disputed mountainous region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan has long had a hostile relationship with its neighbour Armenia, focussed largely on who should control N-K. A war took place at the time the Soviet Union broke up, and there was ethnic cleansing on both sides.
Ethnic Armenians drove out Azerbaijan from the region. Fighting br
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"Index". The Russian Intelligentsia: Myth, Mission, and Metamorphosis, edited by Sibelan Forrester and Olga Partan, Boston, USA: Academic Studies Press, 2024, pp. 352-364. https://doi.org/10.1515/9798887196701-021
(2024). Index. In S. Forrester & O. Partan (Ed.), The Russian Intelligentsia: Myth, Mission, and Metamorphosis (pp. 352-364). Boston, USA: Academic Studies Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9798887196701-021
2024. Index. In: Forrester, S. and Partan, O. ed. The Russian Intelligentsia: Myth, Mission, and Metamorphosis. Boston, USA: Academic Studies Press, pp. 352-364. https://doi.org/10.1515/9798887196701-021
"Index" In The Russian Intelligentsia: Myth, Mission, and Metamorphosis edited by Sibelan Forrester and Olga Partan, 352-364. Boston, USA: Academic Studies Press, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1515/9798887196701-021
Index. In: Forrester S, Partan O (ed.) The Russian Intelligentsia: Myth, Mission, and Metamorphosis. Boston, USA: Academic Studies Press; 2024. p.352-364. https://doi.org/10.1515/9798887196701-021
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Composer Arturo Márquez
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