In the heart of Baku, the Winter Park Plaza business centre bustles with activity. Apart from foreign businessmen, including members of the German-Azerbaijani Chamber of Commerce and the German international cooperation agency GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit), one finds members of the staff of the Baku Initiative Group (BIG), the state-supervised online influence body which has been vigorously denouncing French "colonialism" in recent months.
From its premises in the building,
