Ibrahim Ibrahimov, an Azerbaijani oligarch and billionaire, talks on his cell phone underneath a portrait of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev as one of the people he is meeting with tries to do so discretely during a meeting at the on-site office of the Khazar Islands project near Sahil, Azerbaijan on July 18, 2012. The brainchild of Ibrahimov, the artificial Khazar Islands project just southwest of the Azerbaijani capital Baku is being built at a projected cost of $100 billion with an anticipated 800,000 housing units.