2000 - Assassination attempt on Karabakh President Arkadiy Gukasyan fails. Samvel Babayan, Karabakh's former defence minister, is jailed for 14 years for masterminding attack.
اینجا امدن ما به باکو از قلم افتاده
2001 -
US-brokered talks on Nagorno-Karabakh, held between Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents, end without result.
Talks between five Caspian countries on ownership of the sea continue all year but are inconclusive.
change in a century.
اما هنوذ بیشتر مردم و بخصوص خانمها ترجیح میدند روسی حرف بزنند و بنوبسند هر چند که مکاتبات رسمی به زبان اذری باید یاشه
2002 May - Pope John Paul II makes his first visit to
2002 August - Referendum on amendments to constitution said to get strong support from voters. Critics allege irregularities, say poll is ruse to allow president to hand over power to his son.
2002 September - Construction work starts on multi-billion-dollar pipeline to carry Caspian oil from
Political succession
2003 August - Aliyev appoints his son, Ilham, as prime minister.
2003 October - Ilham Aliyev wins landslide victory in presidential poll said by observers not to reach international standards. Opposition protests met with police violence; hundreds arrested.
2003 December - Heydar Aliyev dies in a
یکی از باشکوه ترین , منظم ترین و دیدنی ترین تشییع جنازه ای که تاریخ به خودش دیده بود برگزار شد البته در مقایسه با مراسم سال 68میشه گفت هیچ بود
2005 March - Thousands mourn after journalist Elmar Huseynov, an outspoken critic of the authorities, shot dead in