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Azerbaijani Youth Center in Estonia to hold a commemoration evening dedicated to Black January

20 January 2011 [11:06] - TODAY.AZ
The Azerbaijani Youth Center ‘Heritage’ operating in Estonia will hold a commemoration evening on January 20 to honor the victims of the Black January, also known as January Massacre, a violent crackdown of the Azerbaijani independence movement in Baku on January 19–20, 1990, pursuant to a state of emergency during the dissolution of the Soviet Union. January 20 is marked as the Day of the Nationwide Sorrow in Azerbaijan.


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