When Ralf Horlemann summed up his four-year mission in Azerbaijan this week, his farewell press conference appeared to be a carefully calibrated exercise in diplomatic balance: economics, energy, Europe, security. But there was almost nothing about the issues that until recently had been an inseparable part of the Western political vocabulary in the region — democracy, human rights and freedom of speech. That silence have been revealing....

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