May 10, 2011 - 10:04 AMT
15:23 GMT
May 10 marks the birthday of national leader of Azerbaijan, Father of the Nation, founder of modern Azerbaijan, former senior functionary of the CPSU Central Committee, member of the Political Bureau, KGB general Heydar Aliyev. Of all his titles, a good half of which is not mentioned, the most important is, perhaps, the rank of KGB general, which he received for concentrated displacement of Armenians from Azerbaijan and Karabakh, as well as... for establishing ties with Turkey and Iran. These ties proved very helpful to Azerbaijan after the collapse of the Soviet Union and they are now.