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Zinoviev while heading a meeting in Azerbaijan in 1920. Getty images

The ‘Autumn of Sorrows’ for Russia’s Muslims

by Amir Taheri | Oct 11, 2017 | Features

London- “Set the East ablaze!” This was the brief order that the leader of the Bolshevik revolution Vladimir Ilycyh Ulianov, alias Lenin, gave to Zinoviev when he sent him on a mission to mobilize the Muslim subjects of the Russian Empire in support of the October...

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Lenin addressing troops at Red Square in Moscow in May 25, 1919. Getty images

The Red October: 100 Years Later

by Amir Taheri | Oct 11, 2017 | Features

London- This month marks the centenary of the 1917 Revolution in Russia which led to the foundation of the Soviet Union. Many in the Russian Federation will mark the occasion with special festivities. A majority of Russians have moved away from the Communist heritage....

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Russian President Vladimir Putin in Red Square, Moscow, Russia with St. Basil’s in the background. Photo: Reuters

A Must-Have Man

by Ghassan Charbel | Oct 9, 2017 | Opinion

In Moscow, you cannot miss visiting the Red Square. It will be a coincidence if you go there in October. This month marks the centennial anniversary of the “October Revolution”, which shook the last century and the world. The orchestrator of that revolution, Vladimir...

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File photo of a giant Azerbaijan flag in Baku. (OSMAN KARIMOV/AFP/Getty Images)

The Art of Turning Neighbors into Enemies

by Amir Taheri | Apr 5, 2013 | Opinion

By all accounts Azerbaijan should be Iran’s closest ally. The tiny republic on the Caspian Sea is home to nine million people with strong ethnic, historic, and religious ties to the Iranian people. Almost 80 percent speak Azeri, an Altaic language with a...