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...Jewish father Kim Wehistein, Kasparov took the maiden name of his Armenian mother Clara; she has ruled his career ever since. At the championships she sat motionless each day in the same third-row seat, watching intensely. Though he now wears the crown, Kasparov, raised in the republic of Azerbaijan, 1,200 miles south of Moscow, remains an outsider to Moscow's powerful chess establishment. "My relationship with the federation," he concedes, "couldn't be worse...
...tight, all the OPEC countries can do is try to run and keep up. Almost all are producing at capacity. And higher prices reduce the urgency to encourage investment. We really need investment in new production capacity. We do see significant growth in non-OPEC production, in countries like Azerbaijan, Angola, Kazakhstan and Russia. The Saudis have indicated they will increase capacity about 20% in the next five years, which would be significant...
...have to give yourself over to your collaborators and be willing to forget what you know. On this album, we were doing a piece of Mugam music from Azerbaijan with Alim Qasimov, an unbelievably great singer, and he says, "This is the way it goes. Now play!" Well, it wasn't written down, and every time we played it, it was different. So finally we just learned it the Azerbaijani way, by oral tradition. And we got something great...
Nercissiantz said fears of another genocide prompted the conflict with Azerbaijan, a neighboring nation that has been involved in a dispute over territory with Armenia...
...European Convention on Human Rights. But legal experts predicted that the judgment will have no effect on a ban in France on students displaying conspicuous symbols of religious faith, as the European Court of Human Rights tends to leave such decisions to individual governments. Eloquent in Death AZERBAIJAN Thousands of opposition supporters attended the funeral of murdered journalist Elmar Huseynov in Baku, despite a warning from President Ilham Aliyev against turning the event into an antigovernment protest. Huseynov, editor of the weekly magazine Monitor, and an outspoken critic of the government, was gunned down outside his apartment in what...