Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov praised this policy on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of the third President of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev. It has been reported DEA News.
“This is an absolutely extraordinary person who has forever entered the history of our once common country, the history of modern Azerbaijan and modern Russia-Azerbaijan relations … And, of course, we preserve the memory of the role played by Heydar Aliyev. ” Peskov told reporters.
The Kremlin spokesman stressed that Russia “shares the joy of this history with its Azerbaijani partners”.
Heydar Aliyev was born on May 10, 1923. From 1966 to 1969 he was the chairman of the KGB under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Azerbaijan SSR, since 1982 he was a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU and served as its president from 1993 to 2003. of Azerbaijan. The politician died in 2003. His son Ilham Aliyev has been the President of Azerbaijan since 2003.