The reported discovery of the remains of a Stalin-era Azerbaijani poet has spurred a struggle between the government, a prominent Azerbaijani-Russian oligarch, and a mud-slinging journalist. The uproar has ultimately forced President Ilham Aliyev to personally oversee an investigation into the findings.Portrait of Mikayil Mushfig. (Public domain via Wikimedia Commons)The poet, Mikayil Mushfig, was shot and killed in 1938, when he was just 29, as...

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