January 20 is "Black Monday" in Azerbaijan, mourning for the killed by the Soviet army on this day in 1990. Twenty four years later the epicenter of life again shifted to "Alley of Martyrs" (Victims), where thousands of people go to pay tribute to those who died for the country's integrity.First the President Ilham Aliyev laid flowers, and it took him only an hour to perform a ritual from the gates of his suburban residence to the Alley, and back...

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