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    ACTIVITY OF HEYDAR ALIEV FOUNDATION IN INFORMATION SPHERE
    Arthur Atanesyan

    "Noravank" Foundation
    17 November 2009

    In Azerbaijan anti-Armenian information actions are carried out both by
    state and non-governmental organizations a part of which are sponsored
    by state. Among them the special place holds Heydar Aliev Foundation
    which, being non-governmental organization, from the very first day
    of its establishment is directly managed by the Alievs family. The
    chairperson of the Foundation is active political figure Mehriban
    Alieva - the wife of the president Ilham Aliev - and the branch of
    the Foundation in the Russian Federation is headed by their daughter
    Leila Alieva.

    The Foundation, actively cooperating with state and other structures
    (president administration, Ministry of National Security, The National
    Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan and diplomatic missions abroad),
    services the main direction of Azerbaijani policy and firstly
    anti-Armenian propaganda in the context of the Nagorno-Karabakh
    conflict. The Foundation finances the publication of multilingual
    literature - books, magazines and booklets, their dissemination in
    different countries, the arrangement of the events in Azerbaijan
    and abroad, the arrangement of photo exhibitions, the producing
    and showing documentary films, the coordination of youth propaganda
    actions, as well as running of the Internet sites.

    Aliev Foundation was established on May 10, 2004 in Baku and it
    consists of the following departments which have their subdivisions:

    The humanities programmes:

    Culture and Tourism Social policy Education, Youth and Sport.

    International relations department:

    Relations with the international organizations Relations with the
    CIS countries Relations with foreign states.

    Public relation department:

    Relations with legal entities and natural persons Relations with mass
    media Functional department:

    Head department Analytical and informational department Propaganda
    and research department Security department Human resources department
    Economic department Protocol department As we can see the Foundation
    manifests itself as the main institution engaged in scientific and
    cultural activity which aim is, e.g. the advertisement connected with
    the Azerbaijani origin of mughams, the implementation and financing
    of cultural, youth and sport programmes.

    Meanwhile the priority direction in the activity of Aliev Foundation
    is anti-Armenian propaganda on local, regional and international
    levels. That propaganda is comprehensive and it works almost in all
    the possible directions, including political, economic, historical and
    cultural, spiritual, educational, information spheres. The Foundation
    aspires to attach anti-Armenian nature to any process going on in
    Azerbaijan or abroad. This structure implements rather important from
    the point of view of Azerbaijani information policy function - in a
    centralized mode it finances, directs and controls the organizations
    and private individuals who carry out anti-Armenian policy in the
    country and abroad.

    In the spotlight of the Foundation is the representation of Armenia
    and the Armenians in the context of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict as
    "state and nation carrying out aggressive, violent, expansionist
    policy", which among others, perpetrated "Khodjalu genocide", and etc.

    The efforts of that structure are especially directed to the
    fabrication and disseminating of "Khodjalu genocide" myth in wide
    audience using all the possible information channels and international
    relations. In this regard the Foundation implements large-scale
    activities among which the following can be mentioned:

    "The anniversary of Khodjalu genocide" is commemorated in Azerbaijani
    embassies and consulates in 50 countries all over the world.

    Various events are arranged in the capitals or big cities in different
    countries devoted to the "Khodjalu genocide" (e.g. Washington, New
    York, London, Dubai, Kiev, Moscow, Warsaw, Strasbourg, Paris, Ankara,
    Istanbul, Tbilisi and Bucharest).

    The film "Khodjalu genocide" was produced, the exhibition "Khodjalu
    through the eyes of children" was arranged for which the pictures
    were prepared by the Azerbaijani pupils who were impressed by the
    state propaganda disseminating hatred towards Armenians in their
    school textbooks.

    The publication of various propagandist books is financed by the
    Foundation. Among them "War against Azerbaijan: Targeting Cultural
    Heritage" book published in English and intended for the foreign
    public. In such books Azerbaijan is presented as an "ancient nation
    with cultural heritage of worldwide importance" against which Armenia
    "perpetrates war".

    The structure publishes and disseminates anti-Armenian brochures with
    hundred of thousand number of copies. Their main subjects are "Karabakh
    history", "Khodjalu genocide", "Reasons for Karabakh conflict", "The
    consequences of Armenian aggression", "Activity of Armenian terrorist
    organizations against Azerbaijan" and etc. In those brochures all the
    issues connected with the NKR are presented to the prejudice of the
    RA and NKR and in favour of Azerbaijan which from informational point
    of view is very efficient and can damage the international image of
    the Armenian party. Such publications are aimed at wide international
    audience and they are being published in English, German, French,
    Russian and Hungarian and spread in different countries. Many of
    Azerbaijanis take those brochures with them to the international
    conferences and spread among the foreign participants.

    As we can see Heydar Aliyev Foundation has a special and rather
    significant place in the information war against the RA and NKR.
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