Rumored Tofiq Musayev Reportedly Debuting at UFC Baku

Is the government in Baku a police state like the majority of Central Asian countries?
 
Keen to see him sign to the ufc but he’ll probably go like 3-3 during his time there.
 
Gabe said:
Is the government in Baku a police state like the majority of Central Asian countries?
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I don't think it's exactly a 'police state'...

"Azerbaijan's government functions as an authoritarian regime in practice; although it regularly holds elections, these are marred by electoral fraud and other unfair election practices. The government has been ruled by the Aliyev political family and the New Azerbaijan Party (Yeni Azərbaycan Partiyası, YAP) established by Heydar Aliyev continuously since 1993. It is categorised as "not free" by Freedom House, who ranked it 7/100 on Global Freedom Score in 2024, calling its regime authoritarian."
 
DougieJones said:
I don't think it's exactly a 'police state'...

"Azerbaijan's government functions as an authoritarian regime in practice; although it regularly holds elections, these are marred by electoral fraud and other unfair election practices. The government has been ruled by the Aliyev political family and the New Azerbaijan Party (Yeni Azərbaycan Partiyası, YAP) established by Heydar Aliyev continuously since 1993. It is categorised as "not free" by Freedom House, who ranked it 7/100 on Global Freedom Score in 2024, calling its regime authoritarian."
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Nice so it’s at the very least a police state
 
Gabe said:
Is the government in Baku a police state like the majority of Central Asian countries?
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Azerbaijan is in Europe. It's run by Aliev Family Clan since the 90s, but its not a police state by any means. Baku is pretty developed.
 
UFC turned down signing Alexandr Shabliy...the younger fighter who beat Tofiq and they turned down signing Eduard Vartanyan who has a win over Shabliy and won the ACA million dollar LW tournament. Let it be known guys, UFC doesn't have "most" of the world's best fighters and their priorities are not on skill, talent, achievements and potential. Tofiq is UFC quality but he's getting signed late and only because they're going to Baku and he's Azeri.
 
kingmob6 said:
Azerbaijan is in Europe. It's run by Aliev Family Clan since the 90s, but its not a police state by any means. Baku is pretty developed.
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Whenever my Armenian friends say "Armenia is in Europe"

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Awesome, I'm aiming to attend this and Tofiq would really get that crowd going! Wonder who he debuts against? Someone mid level I'd imagine? Although I wouldn't be shocked if he fights Gamrot
 
HuskySamoan said:
Look


Brother they both border Iran and are not geographically part of the continent. I don't care, I won't gatekeep Europe but it's funny to me. It's kinda Eurasian at best.
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If you look at the map of Azerbaijan, the European line crosses it sorta in half. I mean, Europe and Asia are really the same continent, so yea, Eurasia or whatever else. You can label that whole region as its own I guess, but its definitely not Central Asia, which is what I was replying to. Armenia is also so small, it barely matters what side of the line you put it on, but it is in Europe still along with Georgia if you go by geographic labels and designations that are currently in place. I'm really not sugarcoating anything here.
 
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