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The New York Times: Azerbaijanis distract from problems of poverty,
focusing their attention on their enemy - Armenia
17:00 15/02/2013 » SOCIETY
Last weekend, the magazine New York Times published Peter Savodnik's
article about Baku's ambition to become a new hub for the global 1
percent, focuses on Khazar Islands, a $100 billion megadevelopment
being built on the Caspian, and the headline flicks at the
development's target audience - celebrities and, mainly, people who
want to be celebrities.
The question was raised whether could Kim Kardashiam even if she
wanted to actually come to Baku?
`But these assumptions shouldn't belittle the tensions that still
exist between Azeris and Amernians. The first time I asked Ibrahimov
about the Armenian question, we were in the back of his Rolls, and he
said: `Armenian people cannot buy here. I will never sell to Armenian
people. My generation will never forget,' the article said.
That's what he's supposed to say - it's what the state wants him to
say, because it distracts Azeris from the problems facing Azerbaijan
like poverty and a lack of potable drinking water by focusing on the
shared enemy that is Armenia, the writer says and notes that position
of the head of the Azerbaijani corporation is the perfect
Soviet-propaganda-speak - a sign that Azerbaijan may not look like it
used to but, underneath all the glass and steel and neon lights, it is
still an authoritarian state. But one that's now open for big
business.
Source: Panorama.am
focusing their attention on their enemy - Armenia
17:00 15/02/2013 » SOCIETY
Last weekend, the magazine New York Times published Peter Savodnik's
article about Baku's ambition to become a new hub for the global 1
percent, focuses on Khazar Islands, a $100 billion megadevelopment
being built on the Caspian, and the headline flicks at the
development's target audience - celebrities and, mainly, people who
want to be celebrities.
The question was raised whether could Kim Kardashiam even if she
wanted to actually come to Baku?
`But these assumptions shouldn't belittle the tensions that still
exist between Azeris and Amernians. The first time I asked Ibrahimov
about the Armenian question, we were in the back of his Rolls, and he
said: `Armenian people cannot buy here. I will never sell to Armenian
people. My generation will never forget,' the article said.
That's what he's supposed to say - it's what the state wants him to
say, because it distracts Azeris from the problems facing Azerbaijan
like poverty and a lack of potable drinking water by focusing on the
shared enemy that is Armenia, the writer says and notes that position
of the head of the Azerbaijani corporation is the perfect
Soviet-propaganda-speak - a sign that Azerbaijan may not look like it
used to but, underneath all the glass and steel and neon lights, it is
still an authoritarian state. But one that's now open for big
business.
Source: Panorama.am