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The murder of Monitor magazine\'s editor Elmar Guseinov was intended to discredit the country\'s leadership, said Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev. The president said that in conditions of public and political stability, the murder of a journalist in Baku is a serious attack on the state and its leadership and a blow against Azerbaijan\'s democracy, the presidential press service said on Thursday, following an extraordinary Security Council session. (Interfax-Azerbaijan).The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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