“I haven’t lived a normal life here yet, I have nothing except a sick mother,” says one of the victims of the raid, a man named Rufat. He refused to give his real name to the press - for obvious reasons. From the BBC he...

We walked along an autumn Baku street - high arches of entrances, stalls with feijoa and pomegranates, smoking men on stools in front of backgammon, clotheslines with linen between houses, evening yellow circles of lanterns. I knew that this was the wrong side, a rare Baku street in the center, where the houses had not yet been repaired, not tiled, not demolished. The side that came out ...

“I think that this rescue operation should go down in history as the most incompetent and cynical action of the state in relation to its citizens. The food was very good - about 30 dry rations for everyone (99 people plus rescuers and crew). People had to share 1 ration...