Azerbaijan pardons jailed Frenchman after EU lifts sanctions on Russian billionaire

Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev on Wednesday pardoned a French national imprisoned for espionage a day after the EU lifted sanctions on a Russian billionaire.
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