Azerbaijan leader Aliyev eyes third term in presidential poll

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By Margarita Antidze and Thomas Grove BAKU (Reuters) - Azeri President Ilham Aliyev appears certain to extend his rule in the oil-producing former Soviet republic for a third straight term in an election on Wednesday that opponents said has already been skewed in his favor. In a decade since Aliyev succeeded his father, Azerbaijan has been through a boom that has raised living standards and has courted Western states drawn by its strategic location and status as a producer and transporter of oil and gas. ...




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