During the years of the presidency of national leader Heydar Aliyev, real reforms started in Azerbaijan, and large-scale investments came into the economy, which became the basis of the current well-being of the state, the Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda said.

In the early 1990s Azerbaijan "began to gradually get out of conflicts, embarking on the path of independence."

The article also contains the memoirs of various prominent political and public figures about Heydar Aliyev.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said: "Heydar Aliyev occupies a worthy place in Turkish and world history thanks to his selfless service in the name of the happiness and prosperity of Azerbaijan, as well as the establishment of peace in the region and the world as a whole."

"I had great respect for Heydar Alievich," Russian President Vladimir Putin said, adding that Heydar Aliyev was a great statesman.

"Aliyev's departure from Russian power, followed by his return to his home country, became fateful and saving for Azerbaijan, because in those years, the hardest for the republic, not everyone could lead a young independent state and lead it correctly,” the Russian president said.





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