Azerbaijan's fired economic development minister has been charged with plotting a coup with an exiled opposition leader, authorities said Thursday, raising anxieties two weeks before parliamentary elections. Farhad Aliev, who was fired on Wednesday, was arrested the same day on charges of conspiring with opposition leader Rasul Guliyev to incite unrest and seize power, a government statement said.Frequent street protests Azerbaijan have stirred government fears of an uprising similar to those that helped topple the government in three other former Soviet republics — Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan — following flawed elections over the past two years.