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Azerbaijan: Widow's claims mar oil party

Nick Meo
Sunday 22 May 2005 00:00 BST
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When British royalty and oil executives join Baku's former Communist elite to make history this week, the self-satisfaction will be tarnished only by the unsettling claims of one stubborn widow.

When British royalty and oil executives join Baku's former Communist elite to make history this week, the self-satisfaction will be tarnished only by the unsettling claims of one stubborn widow.

For Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev, the opening of the $4bn (£2.2bn) metal tube from Baku to Ceyhan in Turkey promises entry into the big time. But he will be hoping that his guests do not pay too much attention to the claims from his critic's widow.

Rushana Huseinov believes that her President may be connected to the murder of her husband, a journalist, who was shot in March.

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