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President Heydar Aliyev of Azerbaijan.
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President Bush is playing host today to the leader of the former Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan, in what some say is a litmus test of the president's so-called freedom agenda.
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In 2006 his son, Emin, married the daughter of Azerbaijan's president, Ilkham Aliyev.
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Ilham Aliyev is already vice-president of the ruling party, deputy head of the State Oil Company and director of Azerbaijan's Olympic Committee, as well as being Azerbaijan's representative at the Council of Europe.
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Khadija Ismailova, an investigative journalist who has published stories about the private wealth of the clan of Ilham Aliev, Azerbaijan's president, was smeared by a secretly filmed sex video that was posted online.
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But in bilateral talks with America's president, George Bush, Mr Putin proposed joint use of radar stations in Azerbaijan, as an answer to American defence concerns east of Europe.
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"The shortcomings that were observed, particularly during election day, have led us to conclude that the elections did not meet Azerbaijan's international commitments on elections, " said Alcee Hastings, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and the Special Co-ordinator for the short-term observers.
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At the center of the new Great Game is Moscow's effort to put the squeeze on Azerbaijan, a secular Muslim state whose President, Heydar Aliyev, once a member of the Soviet Politburo, welcomes Western investment.
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For Azerbaijan's president, Ilham Aliyev, the White House visit is a long awaited stamp of approval from Washington.
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