MANSUR ASLANOV
Recently, Azerbaijan has lived through some dramatic changes, which are having profound effect on the nation's outlook and perceptions. The most obvious, of course, is Russia's show of force against the fellow Caucasus nation of Georgia. For Azerbaijan, Moscow's easy and previously unthinkable blatant annexation of Georgia's territories demonstrated the vulnerability of its main access route to the outside world. Suddenly, the idea of the East-West Corridor, a cornerstone of the regional developments since the early 90s, is severely undermined. Perhaps even more shocking was that the Western reaction to the outright crossing of once clearly marked
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