- ... that the historical Bibi-Heybat Mosque near Baku, Azerbaijan, destroyed in 1934 as result of the Soviet anti-religious campaign, was reopened in 1997 at the same location after the country gained independence?
- ... that celebrated Azerbaijani activist of the French Resistance Ahmadiyya Jabrayilov was persecuted by the NKVD upon his return to the USSR?
- ...that in the early 1990s, Surat Huseynov successfully led a military coup d'état in Azerbaijan to become the Prime Minister?