BAKU (Reuters) - A pro-government party in Azerbaijan has offered a bounty to anyone who slices off the ear of a celebrated writer it says insulted the nation with his depiction of friendship and violence between Azeris and Armenians.
Azerbaijan and Armenia have had no diplomatic ties since a war over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh in the early 1990s, as the Soviet Union fell apart, killed 30,000 people.
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