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Azerbaijanis are voting Wednesday in an election almost certain to see incumbent President Ilham Aliyev chosen to serve another seven-year term

Azerbaijanis are voting in an election almost certain to see incumbent President Ilham Aliyev clinching another seven-year term. The election follows his government’s retaking late last year of a region formerly controlled by ethnic Armenian separatists. Aliyev has been in power for more than 20 years, and this is his fifth election cycle. His government has introduced increasingly repressive laws that have quashed political debate. Opposition figures and independent journalists have been targeted and some have been jailed, including in the run-up to the presidential election. Azerbaijan...

Azerbaijanis are voting in an election almost certain to see incumbent President Ilham Aliyev clinching another seven-year term. The election follows his government’s retaking late last year of a region

Azerbaijanis are voting in an election almost certain to see incumbent President Ilham Aliyev clinching another seven-year term. The election follows his government’s retaking late last year of a region

Azerbaijanis are voting in an election almost certain to see incumbent President Ilham Aliyev clinching another seven-year term