100 Quotes by Fuad Alakbarov

Baku is a jazz city; it's an experience that evokes the old Baku.

My main worry about driverless cars is how would Western journalists get their stories in the post-Soviet countries with no taxi drivers to talk to.

Yerevan is hype. Tbilisi is talk. Baku is work.

Garry Kasparov is the king of chess. But when it comes to politics, he's just a political pawn.

Nothing beats Istanbul when it comes to street food. The city's sidewalks are a walkable sampler platter.

Western governments invaded Iraq, dismantled Libya, interfered without success in Yemen and Syria. Yet North Korea causes all the trouble?

I belong to the generation born during the Nagorno-Karabakh war. And for me, the recurring memory of injustice is not fading anytime soon.

Political parties are not out of touch for not reflecting popular opinion – it’s because they have lost the art of connecting with people in order to change their minds and to win them over to a different perspective. It is the art of political persuasion, not proficiency in tailing public opinion, that needs to be rediscovered.

Social democratic parties throughout Europe have responded to the rise of the far right by adopting harder rhetoric about migrants. The consequence has been merely to confirm the belief that the far right was right all along and to intensify cynicism towards the mainstream. It has not improved the fortunes of social democracy.