Rising prices, a collapsing currency, international turbulence, and a nervous elite. Azerbaijan is starting 2016 in the middle of what looks like a perfect storm. Street demonstrations in a dozen towns in different parts of the country in protest at the sudden economic downturn have been met with a show of force and arrests. Video footage on non-official television shows scenes that are depressingly familiar from Tunisia to Tajikistan: rio...

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