In the end the case turned on whether charges could be brought under an act of 1925 that had banned the sale of honours after Lloyd George's flagrantabuses.
This other Mr Aliev denies the existence of flagrant human-rights abuses and cannot overcome a reflexive post-Soviet suspicion of opposition, or the belief that only overwhelming election victories count.
But the other Mr Aliev is secretly in cahoots with them, denies the existence of flagrant human-rights abuses and cannot overcome a reflexive post-Soviet suspicion of opposition, or the belief that only overwhelming election victories count.