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Secretary Of State Of Azerbaijan
The Secretary of State of Azerbaijan () was a political position in that existed in Azerbaijan, existing from 1991 to 1994. History Establishment The position was created in 1991 to replace in significance the previously existent political position of a 2nd Secretary of the Azerbaijani Communist Party. Since the dissolution of the Party in 1991 by its last First Secretary Ayaz Mutalibov, who became Azerbaijan's first President, there was a need to appoint a second in command to manage the newly created Presidential Administration that took over from the old party apparatus. The first holder of the position was Academician Tofig Ismayilov. Rise in significance The significance of the position varied in time. Under President Heydar Aliyev in 1993 the position rose to become the second after the head of state. Tadeusz Swietochowski wrote, '...Clearly, the number two person in Azerbaijan is Lala Shevket-Hajiyeva, whose title is State Secretary - which does not mean a foreign m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baku
Baku (, ; az, Bakı ) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. Baku is located below sea level, which makes it the lowest lying national capital in the world and also the largest city in the world located below sea level. Baku lies on the southern shore of the Absheron Peninsula, alongside the Bay of Baku. Baku's urban population was estimated at two million people as of 2009. Baku is the primate city of Azerbaijan—it is the sole metropolis in the country, and about 25% of all inhabitants of the country live in Baku's metropolitan area. Baku is divided into twelve administrative raions and 48 townships. Among these are the townships on the islands of the Baku Archipelago, and the town of Oil Rocks built on stilts in the Caspian Sea, away from Baku. The Inner City of Baku, along with the Shirvanshah's Palace and Maiden Tower, were inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000. The c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vice President Of The United States
The vice president of the United States (VPOTUS) is the second-highest officer in the executive branch of the U.S. federal government, after the president of the United States, and ranks first in the presidential line of succession. The vice president is also an officer in the legislative branch, as the president of the Senate. In this capacity, the vice president is empowered to preside over Senate deliberations at any time, but may not vote except to cast a tie-breaking vote. The vice president is indirectly elected together with the president to a four-year term of office by the people of the United States through the Electoral College. The modern vice presidency is a position of significant power and is widely seen as an integral part of a president's administration. While the exact nature of the role varies in each administration, most modern vice presidents serve as a key presidential advisor, governing partner, and representative of the president. The vice president ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lalə Şövkət
Lala Shevket ( az, Lalə Şövkət, sometimes transliterated as ''Lala Şövkat'' or ''Lala Shovkat''; Лала Шевкет in Russian transliteration) (born 7 November 1951, Baku) is an Azerbaijani politician, the Leader of the National Unity Movement and Azerbaijan Liberal Party. She served as the Secretary of State between 1993 and 1994. Early life and scientific career Shevket was born on 7 November 1951 in Soviet Baku. Shevket's father, Shevket bey Muslim bey oqlu Khalifabeyli-Hajiyev was born 1912 in Quba region of Azerbaijan into a family of noble landowner and philanthropist Muslim bey Khalifabeyli. His mother Tughiya Khanum was the descendant of Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestan. In 1968, she graduated from the 189th secondary school of Baku and entered the Azerbaijan Medical University, where she received qualification of a professional physician. After graduation, she moved to Moscow where she had her post graduation and master course on the surgery chair of Patrice L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Karimli In 2019 (cropped)
ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, عَلِيّ بْن أَبِي طَالِب; 600 – 661 CE) was the last of four Rightly Guided Caliphs to rule Islam (r. 656 – 661) immediately after the death of Muhammad, and he was the first Shia Imam. The issue of his succession caused a major rift between Muslims and divided them into Shia and Sunni groups. Ali was assassinated in the Grand Mosque of Kufa in 661 by the forces of Mu'awiya, who went on to found the Umayyad Caliphate. The Imam Ali Shrine and the city of Najaf were built around Ali's tomb and it is visited yearly by millions of devotees. Ali was a cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad, raised by him from the age of 5, and accepted his claim of divine revelation by age 11, being among the first to do so. Ali played a pivotal role in the early years of Islam while Muhammad was in Mecca and under severe persecution. After Muhammad's relocation to Medina in 622, Ali married his daughter Fatima and, among others, fathered Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Karimli
Ali Karimli ( az, Əli Kərimli) born Ali Amirhuseyn oglu Karimov ( az, Əli Əmirhüseyn oğlu Kərimov) (born 28 April 1965) is an Azerbaijani politician and the head of the reformist wing of the Azerbaijan Popular Front Party (APFP). Biography Karimli was born in the Saatly District of southeastern Azerbaijan. After military service in the Soviet army in 1985, he studied law at the Baku State University. During his studies he established and headed the Yurd (Homeland) movement which supported democratic reforms. In November 1988, Yurd, supported by intellectuals, organized student meetings in Baku to protest the communist regime. Special units of the security services were used to suppress the demonstrations. Like other Azerbaijani nationalists, Karimov changed his name erasing the Russian ending ''-ov'' and became Əli Kərimli. Political career In July 1989 Karimli led Yurd into the newly created Popular Front of Azerbaijan (PFA) movement. He headed a party cell at his univ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abulfaz Elchibey
Abulfaz Elchibey ( az, Əbülfəz Elçibəy; 24 June 1938, in Nakhchivan – 22 August 2000, in Ankara) was an Azerbaijani political figure and a former Soviet dissident. His real name was Abulfaz Gadirgulu oghlu Aliyev (Azerbaijani: ''Əbülfəz Qədirqulu oğlu Əliyev''), but he assumed the nickname of "Elçibəy" (Azerbaijani for the "''noble messenger''") upon his leadership of the Azerbaijani Popular Front in 1990. Elchibey was the president of Azerbaijan, serving from 17 June 1992 until his overthrow in a coup d'état on 24 June 1993. He positioned himself as an overt pan-Turkist, and strongly anti-Iran. Biography Elchibey studied Arabic at the Baku State University, graduated in 1957 from the department of Arab philology of the Faculty of Oriental Studies. He worked as a translator and later as a lecturer of history at the Baku State University. From 1963 to 1964 he practiced in Egypt, working as a translator. He soon joined a dissident movement, supporting the re-e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Popular Front Of Azerbaijan
The Azerbaijani Popular Front Party (APFP; az, Azərbaycan Xalq Cəbhəsi Partiyası, ) is a political party in Azerbaijan, founded in 1992 by Abulfaz Elchibey. After Elchibey's death in 2000, the party split into two wings, the ''reform'' wing led by Ali Kerimli and the ''classical'' wing led by Mirmahmud Miralioglu. During the parliamentary elections, from 5 November 2000 - 7 January 2001, the APFP won 11.0% of the popular vote and 6 out of 125 seats in the National Assembly of Azerbaijan. Its candidate Gudrat Hasanguliyev won 0.4% of the popular vote in the 2003 presidential elections. At the parliamentary elections of 6 November 2005, APF joined the Freedom ( az, Azadlıq) block but won only one seat. History Popular Front of Azerbaijan The Popular Front of Azerbaijan (PFA) was an organization established on July 16, 1988 in Azerbaijan that united several informal public organizations into one, working towards independence from the Soviet Union. PFA came to unite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panah Huseynov
Panah Chodar oghlu Huseyn ( az, Pənah Çodar oğlu Hüseyn, born 28 October 1957), also known as Panah Huseynli was the 1st Secretary of State and 5th Prime Minister of Azerbaijan. Early life Huseyn was born in Garagashli village of Sabirabad Rayon region of Azerbaijan. He graduated with a degree in History from the Azerbaijan State University. In 1980 through 1983, he worked as a teacher in a secondary school of the Sabirabad district and was a scientific researcher at a History Museum. In 1997–2000, Huseynov worked at Philosophy and Law Institute of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences in Baku. Political career Huseyn is one of the co-founders of Azerbaijan Popular Front. With the arrival of Azerbaijan Popular Front in power in May 1992, Panah Huseyn was appointed the Secretary of State of Azerbaijan Republic. In early 1993, he became the Prime Minister of Azerbaijan but was removed in June 1993 following demands from the rebelling general Suret Huseynov (unrelated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midhat Abasov
Midhat (also spelled Medhat, Mitat, or Mithat) (Arabic مدحت Romanized: Midḥat) is a masculine given name of Arabic origin. Particularly, in Pakistan Midhat is used as a girl name. The name means 'Praise' or 'Eulogy'. Persons with the given name Midhat * Midhat Pasha (1822–1884), Ottoman grand vizier * Medhat Abdel-Hady (born 1974), Egyptian footballer * Midhat Şükrü Bleda (1874–1956), Turkish politician * Midhat Frashëri (1880–1949), Albanian diplomat, writer and politician * Midhat J. Gazalé (born 1929), Egyptian international telecommunications and space consultant * Midhat Mursi (1953–2008), Egyptian chemist * Mithat Sancar (born 1963), Turkish politician * Mithat Demirel (born 1978), Basketball player * Mithat Bayrak (1929–2014) Turkish wrestler * Mithat Yasar (born 1986) Turkish football player * Mithat Ertug (1904–unknown) Turkish football player Persons with the last name Midhat * Dalal Midhat-Talakić Dalal Midhat-Talakić ( née Midhat; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ayaz Mutallibov
Ayaz Niyazi oghlu Mutallibov, russian: Аяз Ниязович Муталибов, Ayaz Niyazovich Mutalibov (12 May 1938 – 27 March 2022) was an Azerbaijani politician who served as the first president of Azerbaijan. He was the last leader of Soviet Azerbaijan, and first President of Azerbaijan from 18 May 1990 until 6 March 1992 and from 14 May until 18 May 1992. Biography Ayaz Mutallibov was born on 12 May 1938, in Baku to the family of a physician and later World War II veteran, Niyazi Ashraf oghlu Mutallibov ( az, Niyazi Əşrəf oğlu Mütəllibov), and gynaecologist Kubra Mutallibova (died in 1988). Both of his parents were from Shamakhi. In 1956, Ayaz Mutallibov graduated from the secondary school #189 in Baku. During his youth he was fond of jazz music. He was a member of the school volleyball team. In 1956–62, Mutallibov attended the Azerbaijan State Institute of Petroleum and Chemistry. In 1964, he became the director of the Baku Refrigerator Factory, and in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communist Party Of The Soviet Union
"Hymn of the Bolshevik Party" , headquarters = 4 Staraya Square, Moscow , general_secretary = Vladimir Lenin (first) Mikhail Gorbachev (last) , founded = , banned = , founder = Vladimir Lenin , newspaper = ''Pravda'' , position = Far-left , international = , religion = State Atheism , predecessor = Bolshevik faction of the RSDLP , successor = UCP–CPSU , youth_wing = Little Octobrists Komsomol , wing1 = Young Pioneers , wing1_title = Pioneer wing , affiliation1_title = , affiliation1 = Bloc of Communists and Non-Partisans (1936–1991) , membership = 19,487,822 (early 1989 ) , ideology = , colours = Red , country = the Soviet Union The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU),; abbreviated in Russian as or also known by various other names during its history, was the founding and ruling party of the Soviet Union. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
