
May 11, 2010 - 18:39 AMT

09:44 GMT
On May 10 the celebrations of Heydar Aliyev’s birthday were held in Baku. The range of activities and glorifications on behalf of the deceased leader crossed all thinkable boundaries. Even Joseph Stalin was not such a “personality cult” that is being inculcated in Baku today. Likewise, Kim Il Sung, the legendary North Korean leader is in not the same street as Heydar Aliyev. We gave ourselves the trouble to look through the entire world press, which, according to the Baku agitation and propaganda department, was flooded with “a huge number of publications on the occasion of the birthday of the national leader, the father of nation”. Nothing at all was found anywhere except sister Georgia. That said, more and more disappointed one becomes with the trustworthiness and accuracy of the Azerbaijani media.