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Born on December 24, 1961, Baku, Azerbaijan SSR - Azerbaijani actor, statesman and politician, acting president of Azerbaijan since October 31, 2003.

Son and successor of Azerbaijani President Heydar Aliyev (1993-2003). He won the presidential elections three times (2003, 2008 and 2013).

In 1977 he graduated from secondary school No. 6 in Baku and entered the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO). By this time, his father was already the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan. After graduating from the institute, in 1982 he entered the graduate school of MGIMO. In the same year, at the invitation of Andropov, the Aliyev family moved to Moscow.

Having defended his thesis for the degree of candidate of historical sciences, he remained a teaching job at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations.

After Heydar Aliyev was dismissed from the post of First Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers and, on the basis of this, was removed from the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, Ilham Aliyev was “asked” to leave MGIMO, where he taught, on the grounds that it was “a political university ”, and his father fell out of favor with the new General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev.

Ilham Aliyev went into private business. In 1991 he became the head of the Orient firm, and in 1992 he moved to Istanbul and returned only when Heydar Aliyev became the president of the republic.

From 1994 to August 2003 - Vice President, then First Vice President of SOCAR (State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic). He took an active part in the implementation of the "oil strategy of Heydar Aliyev". He took an active part in negotiations with foreign oil companies, which culminated in the signing of an agreement known as the "Contract of the Century". Ilham Aliyev is the author of a number of research works on the geopolitical aspects of the oil policy of sovereign Azerbaijan.

In 1995 he was elected, and in 2000 he was re-elected as a deputy of the Milli Mejlis of Azerbaijan. In 1997 he became the President of the National Olympic Committee of Azerbaijan. On his initiative, sports schools were actively built, national teams were formed in those sports that were traditionally strong in Azerbaijan. For his great contribution to the development of sports and the Olympic movement, he was awarded the highest order of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Order of Glory "The Great Cordon" of the International Military-Sports Council.

In December 1999, at the 1st congress of the New Azerbaijan Party, Ilham Aliyev was elected one of the five deputy chairmen of the party, and in November 2001 at the 2nd congress of the party - the first deputy chairman. From 2001 to 2003, he led the delegation of the Milli Mejlis of Azerbaijan (Parliament) to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). In January 2003, Ilham Aliyev was elected PACE Deputy Chairman and a member of the PACE Bureau. In April 2004, for active participation in the work of PACE and adherence to European ideals, he was awarded the diploma of an honorary member of the PACE and the PACE medal

In July 2003, Heydar Aliyev, who was being treated, and Ilham became candidates for the presidency of the country. In addition, on 4 August, at the request of the President, the Milli Mejlis appointed Ilham Aliyev as the country's prime minister. Two months later, on October 2, Heydar Aliyev's address to the people was read on the state television of Azerbaijan, in which he announced that he was withdrawing his candidacy in favor of his son.

On October 15, 2003, presidential elections were held in the country, in which Ilham Aliyev won with 79.46% of the vote. According to international observers, numerous violations were recorded during the elections. The opposition did not recognize the outcome of the elections, and the next day over 3,000 supporters of one of the opposition presidential candidates from the Musavat party moved along the central streets of the capital towards Azadlig Square. A regiment of internal troops arrived at the scene. The clashes resulted in casualties.

Both in Azerbaijan itself and abroad, the new head of state was expected to carry out gradual reforms, rapprochement with the West, liberalization of political life and strengthening of stability. According to widespread belief, the young president lacked experience, showed no interest in politics and lacked the fatherly charisma, and therefore was not expected to have a tough leadership style. At first, Ilham Aliyev was completely dependent on the old ruling elite, since all significant ministerial posts were retained by those who occupied them even under Heydar Aliyev. It took him two years to prepare the change of apparatus.

The presidency of Ilham Aliyev was marked by the stabilization of the country's political life. In October 2005, Azerbaijan announced the prevention of an attempted coup d'etat, on charges of which 12 people were arrested, including Minister of Economic Development Farhad Aliyev, Minister of Finance Fikret Yusifov, Minister of Health Ali Insanov, President of the Azerkhimia State Concern Fikret Sadigov and ex- President of the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan Eldar Salayev. According to the analytical report of the International Crisis Group "Azerbaijan: Vulnerable Stability" (2010), initially among the opposition.

Having won the presidential elections on October 15, 2008 and received over 88% of the votes, Ilham Aliyev was elected to the post of President of the Republic of Azerbaijan for the second time. The composition of the government practically did not change, and in March 2009 a referendum was held in Azerbaijan, which approved amendments to the constitution, according to one of which one and the same person can be elected president of the country more than two times. There is a widespread belief that the referendum should have made it clear to rival factions within the ruling elite that there is no need to fear a change of power in the near future. The opposition accused Aliyev of turning Azerbaijan into a monarchy, and the European Commission regarded the referendum as a "serious step back" in the development of democracy.

In June 2013, at the 5th Congress of the New Azerbaijan Party, Ilham Aliyev was nominated for the presidential elections held on October 9. Following the results of the presidential elections held on October 9, 2013, the incumbent head of state, Ilham Aliyev, won 84.6% of the votes. This was stated by the head of the CEC of Azerbaijan, Mazahir Panahov. The turnout in the elections was 72%.

In 2017, the Azerbaijani parliament adopted a law according to which "for humiliation and discrediting the honor and dignity of the president" citizens can be punished up to 5 years in prison or fined up to 1,500-2,500 thousand manats. In the event that such expressions are placed on fake accounts and profiles on the Internet, a fine of 2,000 to 3,000 manats is envisaged.

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