AZERBAIJAN IS BUILDING TWO NEW SKI RESORTS WHERE EVERYTHING SPARKLES, BUT WILL THE FORMER SOVIET REPUBLIC ATTRACT VISITORS? ANDREAS HOFER REPORTS The last time I was in Baku, Soviet tanks were positioned at crossroads in Azerbaijan’s capital, enforcing a strict curfew. The USSR was in its death throes, with nationalism fast supplanting Communist ideals of brotherhood and internationalism. A dispute over the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh was building to an all-out war between Azerbaijan and Armenia, with terrible consequences for ethnic Azeris and Armenians who found themselves…Continue Reading