Also called Haydar and in power since June 1993, President Aliyev controls Azerbaijan. He tries to decide all things, big and small. This slows decision making as some ministers only get to see him once every few months. When he is out of the country, "everything stops", says a foreign ambassador in Baku. "People hardly even dare to fix a toilet without his approval". But Eldar Namazov, one of his close aides, says: "People gravitate towards him because he has such a huge ...