Leigh in Azerbaijan

“You must draw a white-hot iron over this Georgian land!…You will have to break the wings of this Georgia! Let the blood of the petit bourgeois flow until they give up all their resistance! Impale them! Tear them apart!” – Vladimir Lenin
So commences an article from freelance journalist Michael J. Totten who is in [...]

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SOS Georgia is a site that tells the Georgian story in the conflict with Russia.  You have to wonder what Russia has in mind.

This is an interactive map of the conflict and here are some images they’ve put together.

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The M2 students went on a trip to Gobustan in the last week of school.  The reasons for going are to see some petroglyphs (this is just one of many) (check out Flickr)

some graffiti engraved by a Roman soldier (Azerbaijan was the outer reaches of the Roman Empire) and the mud volcanoes.  The mud volcanoes [...]

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Last night Chee Wan (early childhood teacher), Gillian (MYP co-ordinator) and I had tea at the Lebanese Restaurant, Beirut. It had great ambience, friendly waiters with good English and a large TV screen showing Arab pop videos that were modelled on western videos. e.g. woman singing song, showing her anger at a male who [...]

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Elchin Behbudov: “In case of any threat to Eynulla Fatullayev’s health, he will be fed by force”

01 April 2008 [12:40] - Today.Az

Elchin Behbudov, chairman of Azerbaijani committee against torture, met with imprisoned editor-in-chief of the Gundelik Azerbaijan newspaper, who is on hunger strike.

The due announcement was made by a source from [...]

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