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...been as chairman of his country's Olympic Committee. Moscow watched with dismay over the past decade as Aliyev senior moved closer to the U.S., and will undoubtedly view the succession as an opportunity to pull Azerbaijan back into its orbit. The Kremlin will be betting on Ayaz Mutalibov, a former Soviet communist party chief in Azerbaijan who lives in exile in Moscow. Another contender in exile, U.S.-based Rasul Guliyev, was the former parliamentary speaker. But both have been refused permission to register as candidates on technical grounds that they claim are politically motivated. The domestic opposition, which...
...large. Officials from other republics regard the outcome as a test for the future prospects of the patchwork Commonwealth of Independent States. Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan, warns that the clash may "create a precedent for uncontrolled development of conflicts within the C.I.S." Late last week Azerbaijani President Ayaz Mutalibov resigned under criticism for mishandling the crisis. Meanwhile, Russian President Boris Yeltsin called upon the two republics to "show political will and wisdom and start a dialogue." But with the guns sounding so loudly, it is hard to imagine how the two sides will be able to hear each other...
...might not be quickly at all -- Gorbachev will not be able to repair fully the political damage the invasion has wrought in Azerbaijan and the rest of the country. The head of the Azerbaijani Communist Party was dismissed for "serious mistakes" and replaced by the republic's premier, Ayaz Mutalibov, but the move cannot redeem the prestige of a party now identified with the military occupation. Yazov seemed to confirm last week that Gorbachev intervened not to save Armenian lives but to prevent the Popular Front from taking control of Azerbaijan. "The army's actions," he said, "are directed...
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