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| | CCC - Electoral Survival of the Most Corrupt? Azerbaijan, Georgia, and American Regional Goals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-25) |
 | | Because of their strategic location at the nexus of South Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia, Azerbaijan and Georgia (along with Armenia) are the pivotal Caucasus countries, indispensable to American interests when it comes to energy, competitive diplomatic power projection, and the War on Terror. |
 | | In the case of Azerbaijan, though ex-communist party boss Haydar Aliyev had been the veritable Czar of Azerbaijan for thirty-four years, his diminishing health was obvious by spring 2003. |
 | | A few weeks later, Georgians voting in parliamentary elections could choose between a party whose leader seemed to lack any dynamism while he attempted to closely manage politics, and opposition parties whose leaders exhibited some governing experience but were only moderately less disunited than the opposition in their southern neighbor. |
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