Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

Baku - A city of memorials

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September 26th 2008
It’s a sad fact that in any country which has suffered oppression at the hands of another you will find memorials and reminders of the past. Here in Azerbaijan it has perhaps more resonance as these events happened so recently that we remember them ourselves. We took a trip up to Martyrs’ Alley to see how the events of the early 1990s have been commemorated. That involved a short and exc ... read more

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Azerbaijan - a nation with a Turkic and majority-Muslim population - regained its independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Despite a 1994 cease-fire, Azerbaijan has yet to resolve its conflict with Armenia over the Azerbaijani Nag... ... read more