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Azeri screenwriter bids to beat president

Oscar-winning screenwriter Rustam Ibragimbekov should be back in his homeland of Azerbaijan preparing his unlikely bid to topple strongman President Ilham Aliyev at elections this October. Instead, Ibragimbekov, who was chosen last month as president.