The heritage of Azerbaijan People’s Republic – AzerTAc: necessity for the establishment and the challenges it passed through

The topic of this article is the hard and glorious way passed through by AzerTAc – the heritage of the Azerbaijan People’s Republic and one of the first news agencies in the East. The period of formation of the agency can be divided into 3 phases. The first phase is quite short in time. This two-month period is even ten times smaller than the age of the Azerbaijan People’s Republic covering the March-April of 1920. The second phase covers quite a long period of time – the Soviet era. In fact, this period can be divided into several phases given the turmoil in history of the Soviet state. Finally, the third phase covers the period when we gained our second independence. During this period – in 1992, AzerTAc restored its historical name, though the first years of the independence were very challenging, and the agency experienced serious economic difficulties due to abrupt transition to self-supporting basis. Heydar Aliyev’s return to political power in Azerbaijan in 1993 marked a new development stage in AzerTAc’s activity