Al Jazeera English published this video item, entitled “Ilham Aliyev: Armenian government ‘overestimated’ its global role | Talk to Al Jazeera” – below is their description.
As the Soviet Union was coming to an end, ethnic tensions between Armenians and Azerbaijanis increased over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
More than 30 years on, the conflict remains unresolved as no mediation attempt has succeeded.
On this episode of Talk to Al Jazeera, the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, discusses whether peace talks with Armenia are still possible and what it would take to achieve peace.
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Al Jazeera English YouTube Channel
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In This Story: Soviet Union
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a federal socialist state in Northern Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991. Nominally a union of multiple national Soviet republics, it was a one-party state (until 1990) governed by the Communist Party, with Moscow as its capital in its largest republic, the Russian SFSR.
The Soviet Union had its roots in the October Revolution of 1917 when the Bolsheviks, headed by Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Provisional Government that had earlier replaced the monarchy of the Russian Empire.
On 25 December 1991, Gorbachev resigned and the remaining twelve constituent republics emerged from the dissolution of the Soviet Union as independent post-Soviet states. The Russian Federation (formerly the Russian SFSR) assumed the Soviet Union’s rights and obligations and is recognized as its continued legal personality.
