Ilham Aliyev

Ilham Heydar oglu Aliyev (Ilham Heydarovich Aliyev) is the fourth president of Azerbaijan. Son of the third president, Heydar Aliyev. Was elected president three times (2003, 2008, 2013). The time of his leadership of the country is characterized by relative stabilization of the economic and political life of Azerbaijan. However, Aliyev is often accused of establishing a dictatorship and authoritarian regime in the country.

Ilham Aliyev was born in Baku (Azerbaijan SSR) on December 24, 1961. Ilham's father, Heydar Aliyev (May 10, 1923 - December 12, 2003), at that time headed the counterintelligence of the KGB of Azerbaijan. Mom Zarifa Aliyeva (April 28, 1923 - April 15, 1985) - the leading ophthalmologist of Azerbaijan, professor, member of the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan. Sister - Sevil Aliyeva (October 12, 1955).

The future president studied at secondary school 6 in Baku. After graduation, Ilham Aliyev entered the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO). Heydar Aliyev at that time already held the post of the first secretary of the Central Committee of Azerbaijan. After graduating from the institute, in 1982 he continued his postgraduate studies. In the same year, the Aliyev family moved to Moscow (on November 24, 1982, Yuri Andropov appointed Heydar Aliyev as First Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers).

After graduating from graduate school, Ilham defended his dissertation and remained a teacher at MGIMO. With the coming to power of Mikhail Gorbachev, Heydar Aliyev fell out of favor. After his father's resignation, Ilham was denied the position of a teacher. He went into business. In 1991, Ilham Aliyev became the general director of Orient and moved to Istanbul. He returned to Azerbaijan when his father became the country's president.

In the period 1994-2004, Ilham Aliyev served as vice-president of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan "SOCAR". He embodied the geopolitical interests of Heydar Aliyev in the oil sector. He actively participated in the conclusion in 1994 of an agreement on the development of deep-water deposits of the Caspian Sea in Azerbaijan. The agreement between 13 companies from 8 countries was called the "Contract of the Century" and was the beginning of Azerbaijan's "New Oil Strategy"

In 1995 and 2000 he was elected as a deputy of the Milli Mejlis of Azerbaijan. He actively promoted the construction of sports facilities and the opening of sports schools in the country. Ilham Aliyev was an active participant in the program for the development of traditional sports in Azerbaijan. In 1995 he was elected chairman of the Olympic Committee of Azerbaijan. For his personal contribution to the cause of the Olympic movement, the IOC was awarded the highest order of the International Olympic Committee, the Order of Glory "Great Cordon" of the International Military-Sports Council.

In 1999, Ilham Aliyev was elected one of the five deputy chairmen of the New Azerbaijan Party. In 2001, he became the first deputy head of the party. In the period 2001-2003, he was the head of the delegation from the Mejlis to PACE. In 2004, Aliyev was awarded the diploma of an honorary member of the PACE and the PACE medal.

In July 2003, Ilham Aliyev, together with his father Heydar Aliyev, became a presidential candidate in Azerbaijan. And in August of the same year, the Mejlis appointed him Prime Minister. Two months later, on all TV channels in Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliyev announced his withdrawal from the election in favor of Ilham Aliyev.

Ilham Aliyev won the presidential elections on October 15, 2003 with 79.46% of the vote. The elections were accompanied (according to international observers) by numerous violations and led to massive protests by opposition supporters. The clash between the protesters and the internal troops led to casualties.

The young head of Azerbaijan, both in the country and in the West, was not expected to make drastic actions in politics and economy. Ilham, according to widespread opinion, was not interested in politics, had no experience and was dependent on the ruling political power. However, the new president of Azerbaijan adopted a tough leadership style, preparing a complete change of the country's ruling elite in two years. Most were not happy with this state of affairs. In 2005, the "old guard" attempted a coup d'etat.

The instigators were Ilham's uncle - Minister of Economy Farhad Aliyev and Ali Insanov - Minister of Health. 12 conspirators were arrested. Among them were Finance Minister Fikret Yusifov and President of the Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences Eldar Salayev. The arrest of the leader of the Erazov clan, Insanov, meant the end of the distribution of power in the country according to clan affiliation. From now on, only the president determined the policy of Azerbaijan.

The next presidential elections were held in Azerbaijan on October 15, 2008. Ilham Aliyev won with 88% of the vote. The government continued to work with an almost unchanged composition. In 2009, a referendum was held in Azerbaijan, one of the issues of which was the election of the same candidate for president more than two times. This allowed the opposition to announce the arrival of a "monarchy" in the country. The European Commission announced a rollback on the road to democracy.

On October 9, 2013, Ilham Aliyev won 84.6% of the votes in the presidential elections in Azerbaijan.

During the reign of Ilham Aliyev, the economy has been growing in Azerbaijan. This is due to an increase in the sale of energy resources. At the start of Ilham's presidency, export oil pipelines bypassing Russia were launched: "Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan", "Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum". During the first two years of the presidency, Azerbaijan's GDP increased by 16.4%. Now the country's economy is completely dependent on the sale of hydrocarbons.

According to government figures, the country's poverty rate has dropped to 11%. However, this is mainly due to the social benefits of the government.

In the international arena, Ilham Aliyev has a flexible policy. In 2005, he signed a non-aggression pact with Iran. An agreement on a 390-kilometer demarcation on the state border, which is beneficial for Baku, has been signed with Russia.

After a new round of aggravation of the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh in April 2016, Russian President Vladimir Putin initiated a meeting in Yalta between the heads of Azerbaijan and Armenia, Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sargsyan. The leaders of the opposing sides of the conflict made an attempt to "give additional dynamics to the settlement in Nagorno-Karabakh."

All transformations in the country are reported on the presidential website and social networks.

In 1983, Ilham married Mehriban Pashayeva. Mehriban is from an intelligent Azerbaijani family. She studied at the Azerbaijan State Medical Institute. N. Narimanov, First Moscow Medical Institute. I.M.Sechenov. She graduated from the last in 1988. While studying in Moscow, she met and married Ilham Aliyev and managed to give birth to two children.

The Aliyev family has three children: Leila (born in 1985), Arzu (1989), Heydar (1997). Daughter Leila on April 30, 2006 became the wife of the vice-president of Crocus Group, musician Emin Agalarov. Leyla Aliyeva has three children: sons Ali and Mikail and adopted daughter Amina. In May 2015, Emin and Leila divorced.

Another daughter of the Aliyevs, Arzu, in 2011 married the son of businessman Aydin Gurbanov, Samed. After graduation from the institute until 1992, Arzu worked at the Research Institute of Eye Diseases in Moscow. In 1995, she founded and became the head of the Friends of Azerbaijan Culture Foundation. In 1996 she became the founder and editor-in-chief of the journals "Heritage of Azerbaijan" and "Azerbaijan - Irs", published in Azerbaijani, Russian and English. The purpose of the publications is to popularize Azerbaijani culture in the world.

In 2002, Mehriban Aliyeva was elected President of the Azerbaijan Gymnastics Federation. She initiated the 2005 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championship in Azerbaijan. And in 2015, Aliyeva headed the national committee for holding the First European Games in Azerbaijan. She initiated in 2008 the burial of the singer Muslim Magomayev, who died in Moscow, at home, in Baku, on the "Alley of Honorary Burial".

Interestingly, President Aliyev is one of the three highest presidents in the world. The growth of Ilham Aliyev, like that of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, was 190 cm. Only the President of Montenegro Philip Vujanovic is taller (200 cm).

Following a referendum held in Azerbaijan in 2016, a new position was established: First Vice President. Since then, in the event of an untimely resignation from the presidency of the country, power in Azerbaijan passes to the vice president, and not to the prime minister.

In February 2017, Mehriban Aliyeva was appointed to the post of Vice President of Azerbaijan by the decree of President Ilham Aliyev. The appointment in the Azerbaijani press, which is completely controlled by the authorities, has received approving reviews. However, world experts were wary of the new post of the first lady of Azerbaijan. The country's future is now in the hands of one family, and this is a step towards neo-monarchic rule.

In the summer of 2016, the Constitutional Court of Azerbaijan approved amendments to increase the presidential term to 7 years and reduce the age of a presidential candidate to 25 years. The opposition suspects that Aliyev is preparing a successor in the person of Heydar's son. At the time of the next presidential election in 2025, he will turn 28.

The Aliyev family is accused of corruption. The European Parliament, by a resolution of September 10, 2015, demanded that the EU investigate the Aliyev family's charges of large-scale corruption. Thus, the catalyst was the journalistic investigations on the receipt by the construction holding "Azenco" (owned by the Aliyevs) of millions of contracts financed by the budget of Azerbaijan.

In addition, from the investigation of The Washington Post journalists it became known that 9 luxury villas in Dubai were bought in the name of the president's minor son for $ 44 million. In addition, the property was bought by the president's daughters. The total cost of housing is $ 75 million.

The children of the president own a mobile communications company, a bank of a holding company that owns the services of the state-owned AZAL airline, etc.

In early April 2017, popular Russian TV presenter Vladimir Soloviev conducted a 2-hour interview with President Aliyev. According to the TV presenter, despite the opposite opinion on a number of issues, Ilham Aliyev was extremely correct.

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