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      Azerbaijan's PR work to promote the image of a new, modernizing, dynamic country now has to contend with a contrary image of the government welcoming home an axe-murderer: expert
    
    5 September 2012
    This is a black week for those who are seeking a peaceful settlement of the long-running Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, Thomas de Waal, senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC, says in his BBC article concerning Ramil Safarov, an Azeri officer sentenced by a Hungarian court to life in jail for brutally killing an Armenian in Budapest in 2004 but recently extradited to his home country and pardoned by the local authorities.