Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "История Азербайджана" in Russian language version.
…it cannot be denied that the Caucasian Albanians of ancient and medieval times played a role in the ethnogenesis of the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabagh, the Azerbaijanis…
Оригинальный текст (англ.)The period of uncertainty and indecisiveness came to an end in June 1993, when Heydar Aliyev took over from Azerbaijan's second elected president, Abulfaz Elchibey, who resigned as Armenian forces were making serious gains in the war Azerbaijan and local rebels were advancing on Baku (the so-called coup of June 1993). After his confirmation as president in popular elections in October 1993, Aliyev quickly negotiated a ceasefire with Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh. The cessation of armed hostilities in 1994 allowed Aliyev to focus on economic recovery, and specifically on land reform.
Aliyev had been responsible for agriculture's spectacular growth during his tenure as first secretary of the Central Committee of the Azerbaijan Communist Party (1969–83) and in 1992 he had launched a program of agricultural reforms in the Nakhichevan enclave, where he was parliamentary chairman during a “period of exile” from central leadership. Aliyev's land reform attempts in Nakhichevan did not spread to the rest of the country, because by then Azerbaijan was embroiled in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, suffering from deep political instability. The situation changed radically with his election to the presidency, and from the end of 1993 onward, all land reform and farm restructuring decisions were closely associated with President Heydar Aliyev.
The general principles of the new economic system were set out in “the Aliyev Constitution” adopted by referendum in November 1995. The new constitution made a clean break with the socialist economic principles inherited from the Soviet system. It recognized private property alongside state and municipal property (Art. 13(I)), and specifically stated that both movable and immovable property (e.g., land) may be held in private ownership (Art. 29(III)). The state monopoly on land ownership that had persisted in Azerbaijan since the early 1920s was thus abolished and adherence to market principles of economic development—“for the improved well-being of the people”—was formally declared in the constitution (Art. 15(II)). Aliyev's market approach to the economy produced quick dividends in the form of what Azerbaijan calls the “contract of the century” signed in 1997 with a consortium of international oil companies for the exploration and exploitation of three offshore oil fields.
Yet at that time Azerbaijan was still a highly agrarian country and land reform was naturally regarded as one of the pillars of economic recovery. Already in December 1994 and March 1995 President Aliyev created special commissions to formulate the principles of agrarian reform (Mamedov, 2000). These commissions produces three major laws on land reform and farm restructing in 1995-96, which put in place the basic legislation for land privatization and the dissolution of collective and state farms.
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