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A market at the foot of the Khazar Islands serves an illegal refugee settlement that is to be moved to make way for the Khazar Islands project in Sahil, Azerbaijan on July 18, 2012. The brainchild of Ibrahim 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; evictions in Azerbaijan are often forceful with police storming a house and leaving those evicted with no legal recourse, options or reimbursement.
© Amanda Rivkin