Azerbaijan after the Presidential Elections: Internal and Foreign Policy Dynamics

... date itself already indicates a certain intrigue. Indeed, Ilham Aliyev did not have any real competitors before announcing the shift of the campaign to an earlier date. They did not appear even during the election race, although it should be noted that Ilham Aliyev's exclusive position in Azerbaijani politics can be explained not only by his notorious administrative resource, which, no doubt, was used to its full capacity. Sergey Minasyan: Hard Times for Multivectorism in Post-Soviet Space: Azerbaijan between Russia and the West For many ...