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In December 2006, the two countries adopted a program of interstate cooperation in the humanitarian sphere for 2007–2009. 2005 was the "Year of Azerbaijan" in Russia and 2006 was the "Year of Russia" in Azerbaijan; the two countries held 110 special cultural events during these two years.
The next day, Aliyev issued an official statement that Azerbaijan was "writing a new history", describing Karabakh as an ancient Azerbaijani territory and longstanding home to Azerbaijanis, and claiming that Armenians had occupied Azerbaijan's territory, destroying its religious and cultural heritage, for three decades.
Black January (Azerbaijani: Qara Yanvar), also known as Black Saturday or the January Massacre, was a violent crackdown on Azerbaijani nationalism and anti-Soviet sentiment in Baku on 19–20 January 1990, as part of a state of emergency during the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
A decade later, Peter renewed his focus on the region with the Russo-Persian Campaign (1722–1723), [30] aiming primarily at Dagestan and Azerbaijan. [31] Although Circassia was not the main target of this campaign, it marked a turning point for Russian strategy in the Caucasus and set the stage for future conflicts. [ 32 ]
Ögedei Khan sent 30,000 men under the command of Chormagan and the Khwarazmians were swept away by the new Mongol army. In 1231, the Mongols occupied most of Azerbaijan [124] Four years later, they destroyed cities of Ganja, Shamkir, Tovuz, and Şabran on their way to Kievan Rus'. [125] By 1236, Transcaucasia was in the hands of Ögedei Khan ...
In mid-2012, Azerbaijanis in Azerbaijan released a video game entitled İşğal Altında: Şuşa (Under Occupation: Shusha), [199] a free first-person shooter that allows the player to assume the role of an Azerbaijani soldier who takes part in the 1992 battle of Shusha. Commentators have noted that the game "is not for the faint of heart ...
BAKU (Reuters) -Russian air defences downed an Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan, killing 38 people, four sources with knowledge of the preliminary findings of Azerbaijan's ...
On June 2, the two Soviet states (Russia and Azerbaijan), on the one hand, and Armenia, on the other, reached an agreement on a ceasefire in Karabakh, Zangezur, Nakhchivan, and the Kazakh district. However, conflicts among them persisted until December 1920. [304] In the initial period, the Azerbaijani army was preserved.