I recently visited Azerbaijan and I wrote a very complimentary travel blog recommending it as a tourist destination. I didn’t mention the political situation there at all as I didn’t feel it was relevant to tourism. However, I feel it does merit a separate article as the issues of history, geography and politics interest me greatly. President Ilham Aliyev, ruler of Azerbaijan. On my first night in Baku, I got chatting with a local man – we weren’t talking about politics or an