The World is Talking. Global Politics

Unzipped: Gay Armenia continues to detail the unfolding saga of Agil Khalil, an opposition reporter in Azerbaijan, who was recently stabbed. Although the authorities in Baku continue to maintain that the perpetrator of the attack was a jilted one-time-lover, the blog notes that foreign organizations must determined the following distress as “spurious.” The blog says that the dominant homophobia in Azerbaijani society was rather than used to protect his real attackers and the reason looking for the stabbing — Khalil's exploration into corrupt obtain deals in the excellent, Baku.