Recently, the church of Saint Pattern (11-12th century) in one of the Norman villages in north-western France, will find its original condition. Part of the funds has been allocated for its restoration by the Heydar Aliyev Foundation.
Independent journalist Régis Gent in the article "Baku conducts cultural diplomacy in France" on the site eurasianet.org, writes about the general advertising on this in the media of France.
The beginning of the "cultural diplomacy" of Azerbaijan in France dates back to the threshold of the presidential election campaign in 2008, Ilham Aliyev. In 2007, the Foundation began the restoration of the rooms, and reproductions (the amount to be open to the public) in the Palace of Versailles. After two years, the Foundtation gave 40 thousand euros ($ 53 thousand 776) to recover the three stained glass windows in the Cathedral of Strasbourg. This was followed a gift of one million euros (more than $ 1.34 million) donation to the Louvre. In addition, there were sponsoring events and festivals in France under the patronage of the "Friends of Azerbaijan" of 150 thousand euros.
The readers remember anniversaries, concerts, exhibitions at UNESCO to make Azerbaijan more recognizable. A closer examination of the situation and the characters with whom Aliyevs family wants to introduce the world, it becomes clear that all these sequins and ruckus is created in order to drown out the voices of local and international human rights activists in the West and create the image of "a stable democracy in the chaos of Islamic extremism" the author writes.
Today, all the world's leading media write about international initiatives of Tale Heydarov (son the Minister of Emergency Situations,Kamaladdin Heydarov) and Anar Mammadov (son of the Transport Minister, Ziya Mamedov), without going into the details of how "hatched" these businessmen, and on what funds they promote their country. No one asks what is the Heydar Aliyev Foundation and why the information on the financial sources is closed.
Everyone remembers the recent winter session of PACE and the voting results for "list of Strasser." It was a question on human rights, political prisoners and prisoners of conscience, and the attitude of the authorities to the problem of official Baku. Then the majority of deputies (125 against 74) did not support the draft resolution of the German parliamentarian, and among them were seven French, the author of the material wrote. -17D-
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A 32-year-old man, who had threatened to jump off a bridge, blocked traffic on the airport road.
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