Car Accident Triggers Unrest In Azerbaijan Town
I'm not sure if this should be classified under the Surrealists or the Dadaists. Perhaps you can figure it out, dear Reader. | [Ay Pee] It began late at night with a minor car accident.
By midday Thursday, a hotel had been burned to the ground, several expensive vehicles torched and crowds were facing off with police to demand a leading regional official's resignation.
The episode has exposed latent tensions nurtured by economic inequality and unresponsive governance in the oil-abundant Azerbaijan. The ostentatious display of wealth and aggressive, arrogant behavior among well-connected individuals is commonplace across resource-rich former Soviet republics and engenders much bitterness.
Posted by: trailing wife 2013-01-25 |