member, Imperial Russian Technical Association, Baku Branch
George Aron
Board of Directors
Moris Efrusi
Prince A. G. Gruzinsky
Arnold Fiegl
Volga Region
Mazut trade and transport company
1898 - founded
1907
warehouses in Russia
controlled
Absheron Oil Company
Shikhovo
Melikov
Russian Oil Society
1909 - 90% of gross sales of oil produced in Baku
sold to the Anglo-Dutch Trust Royal Dutch Shell
got 20% of Shell's shares
son, Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild
aquired majority shares in Neft and G. M. Lianozov
son, Baron Guy Édouard Alphonse Paul de Rothschild
Baron David René James de Rothschild
President, World Jewish Congress
son, Edmund Rothschild
acquired majority of the shares in Neft and G.M. Lianozov & Sons
Continuation Holdings AG
Armenia
40 - 60 AD - Christianity brought to Armenia by Thaddeus and Bartholomew
301 AD - first nation to adapt Christianity
Armenian Genocide
Ottoman Empire carried out campaign that killed over 1 million Armenians
Republic of Artsakh
Nagorno-Karabakh region
1988 - 1994 - Nagorno-Karabakh war
1991 - ethnic Armenians voted to secede from Azerbaijan, form Republic of Artsakh
2020 - thousands of Armenians killed, half forced to flee homes
Azerbaijan
Ilham Aliyev, President
capital, Baku
part of Russian empire until 1918
declared Independence
first secular Democratic Muslim majority state
1920 - become member of U.S.S.R.
1991 - declare independece
11/17/2020 - Turkey's parliament granted Erdogan permission to deploy peacekeepers to Azerbaijan to monitor a cease-fire deal after 6 weeks of fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh region that aims to end conflict in the region. Legislators voted in favor of 1 year mandate where they would observe possible violations of truce from joint Turkish-Russian.
Turkey allied with Azerbaijan
gets clusterbombs from Israel
M095 DPICM cluster munitions
purchased $5b worth of military equipment from Israel