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(Center) Ibrahim Ibrahimov, an Azerbaijani oligarch and billionaire, walks into his office at Avesta Concern on the prestigious Teymur Aliyev Street, known locally as "the oligarch's street", in Baku, 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.
© Amanda Rivkin