The dear leader

His image is everywhere, I asked the taxi driver, Shaheen, by thumbs up or thumbs down whether he was good. Shaheen responded enthusiastically with two thumbs up. I thought Azerbaijan was riddled with corruption but that message doesn't seem to have reached him.

Another odd thing in both Georgia and Azerbaijan is that there don't seem to be any newspapers. In Greece you will see old men sitting, reading a paper and drinking coffee but here there are none. I wonder if that's a legacy from the Soviet past.