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Page 1 1 of 11 DOCUMENTS Copyright 2009 Associated Newspapers Ltd. All Rights Reserved The Evening Standard (London) December 24, 2009 Thursday LENGTH: 824 words HEADLINE: CITY SPY BODY: EXPECT more media firms to announce plans to charge...
…UN entities. Recently, however, the political prisoner has made a comeback. One notably egregious offender is Azerbaijan. Under President Ilham Aliyev, this country of just 9.4 million people has amassed one of the world’s largest numbers o...
…everal other examples of consultants in the pay of authoritarians are worth mention: • Until rather recently, Azerbaijan was represented by a battalion of lawyers, political operatives, and public relations specialists in Washington, London...
… and political consultants in major democracies, as have state energy corporations in oil-rich countries like Azerbaijan, Venezuela, and Angola. But authoritarian governments generally seek the assistance of global public relations companie...
…me resembles the obviously rigged results in totalitarian or junta-like settings. Eurasian presidents such as Azerbaijan’s Ilham Aliyev and Belarus’s Alyaksandr Lukashenka have repeatedly won elections with over 80 percent of the vote, and...
…tions specialists who make money by repre- senting dictators and kleptocrats. Those who flack for the leaders of China, Azerbaijan, Egypt, and their ilk should be made to answer for each political prisoner, murdered opposition figure, shutt…
