President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan has named his wife as his deputy, tightening the family’s grip on power in the oil-producing former Soviet state.
Mehriban Aliyeva will become Azerbaijan’s first vice-president, Mr Aliyev said in a decree that did not detail her responsibilities but,
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Henry Foy - Moscow, Financial Times
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