The detention of the writer Akram Aylisli in the Baku airport on March 30 shows that the authorities have not forgiven him writing the trilogy The Grand Traffic Jam, which came out in a signal edition of 50 copies in 2011 for peer review. The novel exposes the Soviet and modern political mores of Azerbaijan. Aylisli even then, as a writer-seer, was trying to send a signal that the authoritarian government system built in Azerbaijan moves it...

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