1.0 link 221713 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elin-suleymanov/the-promise-of-visionary_b_221713.html When Israeli President Shimon Peres visits Azerbaijan in late June this year, it will be exactly one month from the May 28 Azerbaijan Republic Day celebrations. This bears an almost inescapable symbolism as Azerbaijan's national day marked the 91st anniversary of the establishment of the first parliamentary democracy with the majority Muslim population in the world in 1918, the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic. Incidentally, the short-lived Azerbaijan Democratic Republic managed, before being invaded by the Russian Bolsheviks, to grant equal rights...

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