15 July 1997 PRESIDENT HEIDAR ALIEV’S AUTOCRATIC and authoritarian rule showed no signs of weakening in 1996. A former first secretary of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan, Aliev returned to the forefront of Azerbaijani politics in June 1993 following the peaceful ouster of Abulfaz Elchibey, and he was elected president in October of that year. Since then, he has used […]
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